Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Caersws C.P. School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY17 5SE
Caersws · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY17 5SE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY17
- Postcode sector
- SY17 5
- Latitude
- 52.509226
- Longitude
- -3.412047
- British National Grid easting
- 304,263
- British National Grid northing
- 291,084
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Caersws · W05001124
- Parish or community
- W04000259
- Westminster constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr · W07000102
- Output area
- W00002308
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 006A · W01000433
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 006 · W02000102
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore SY17
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Moat Lane Crossing Cottage, Moat Lane, Caersws, SY17 5SE | 25 June 2021 | £240,000 |
| 2 Moat Lane Crossing, Moat Lane, Caersws, SY17 5SE | 29 September 2015 | £125,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.5 km
Caersws C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 3.0 km
Llandinam C.P. School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 47
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 23
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Other theft 5
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Public order 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- SY17 5 residents
- 3,698
3 female, 4 male
Age bands in SY17 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.5%
451 residents
323 residents
617 residents
1,073 residents
1,030 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY17 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 62.5%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
La Crisalida Retreats
BCT · Caersws
- 0.3 miles
La Crisalida Retreats
BCT · Caersws
- 0.8 miles
Plas Maldwyn
BCT · Caersws
- 0.8 miles
Plas Maldwyn
BCT · Caersws
- 0.8 miles
Plas Maldwyn
BCT · Caersws
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
47 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 23 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.