Property market
The five-year median is £318,259 from 2 recorded sales in SY20 8SH. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Powys is £231,004 in June 2026, up 2.9% year on year.
SY20 8SH
Glantwymyn · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Machynlleth
- Ward
- Glantwymyn
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
- Postcode district
- SY20
- Postcode sector
- SY20 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY20 8SH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY20
- Postcode sector
- SY20 8
- Latitude
- 52.574582
- Longitude
- -3.749139
- British National Grid easting
- 281,563
- British National Grid northing
- 298,854
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Glantwymyn · W05001131
- Parish or community
- W04000258
- Westminster constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr · W07000102
- Output area
- W00002352
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 004A · W01000442
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 004 · W02000100
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 SY20
Property
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Troed Y Bryn, Melin Byrhedyn, Machynlleth, SY20 8SH | 28 January 2022 | £275,000 |
| Llawr Y Ddol, Melin Byrhedyn, Machynlleth, SY20 8SH | 20 September 2021 | £361,518 |
| Troed Y Bryn, Melin Byrhedyn, Machynlleth, SY20 8SH | 30 June 2021 | £250,000 |
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 2
- Public order 1
- Vehicle crime 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- SY20 8 residents
- 4,541
10 female, 5 male
Age bands in SY20 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.8%
635 residents
394 residents
939 residents
1,357 residents
1,157 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY20 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
- 1.2 miles
Tal-y-Wern
BCT · Tal-y-Wern
- 1.3 miles
Abercarrog
BCT · Melinbyrhedyn
- 2.9 miles
Pont Abergwydol
BCT · Abercegir
- 2.9 miles
Pont Abergwydol
BCT · Abercegir
- 2.9 miles
Pont Abergwydol
BCT · Abercegir
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.