Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Gynradd Pennal is the nearest published school at 3.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY20 8SZ
Ceulan a Maesmawr · Ceredigion · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Machynlleth
- Ward
- Ceulan a Maesmawr
- Local authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli
- Postcode district
- SY20
- Postcode sector
- SY20 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY20 8SZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY20
- Postcode sector
- SY20 8
- Latitude
- 52.542900
- Longitude
- -3.937749
- British National Grid easting
- 268,688
- British National Grid northing
- 295,657
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Ceredigion · W06000008
- Electoral ward
- Ceulan a Maesmawr · W05001305
- Parish or community
- W04000405
- Westminster constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli · W07000093
- Output area
- W00002796
- Lower layer super output area
- Ceredigion 001C · W01000523
- Middle layer super output area
- Ceredigion 001 · W02000116
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
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Plas Mawr, Eglwysfach, Machynlleth, SY20 8SZ | 7 September 2015 | £350,000 |
| 1, Plas Mawr, Eglwysfach, Machynlleth, SY20 8SZ | 2 October 2006 | £245,000 |
| 1, Plas Mawr, Eglwysfach, Machynlleth, SY20 8SZ | 19 July 2002 | £150,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 4.8 km
Ysgol Gynradd Pennal
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Drugs 1
- Other crime 1
- Other theft 1
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- SY20 8 residents
- 4,541
0 female, 3 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 0.1% 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
- 0.0 miles
London House
BCT · Eglwys-Fach
- 0.0 miles
London House
BCT · Eglwys-Fach
- 0.3 miles
Furnace Bridge
BCT · Furnace
- 0.3 miles
Furnace Bridge
BCT · Furnace
- 0.5 miles
Plas Einion
BCT · Furnace
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.