Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Gynradd Pennal is the nearest published school at 338 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY20 9DL
Aberdyfi · Gwynedd · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Machynlleth
- Ward
- Aberdyfi
- Local authority
- Gwynedd
- Constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd
- Postcode district
- SY20
- Postcode sector
- SY20 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY20 9DL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY20
- Postcode sector
- SY20 9
- Latitude
- 52.586512
- Longitude
- -3.918164
- British National Grid easting
- 270,145
- British National Grid northing
- 300,472
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Gwynedd · W06000002
- Electoral ward
- Aberdyfi · W05001506
- Parish or community
- W04000093
- Westminster constituency
- Dwyfor Meirionnydd · W07000096
- Output area
- W00000235
- Lower layer super output area
- Gwynedd 017F · W01001933
- Middle layer super output area
- Gwynedd 017 · W02000026
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Maesteg, Pennal, Machynlleth, SY20 9DL | 13 July 2015 | £139,000 |
| 4, Maesteg, Pennal, Machynlleth, SY20 9DL | 25 July 2008 | £98,000 |
| 6, Maesteg, Pennal, Machynlleth, SY20 9DL | 12 July 2007 | £19,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 338 m
Ysgol Gynradd Pennal
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 5
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Anti social behaviour 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- SY20 9 residents
- 2,098
4 female, 11 male
Age bands in SY20 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 35.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.2%
273 residents
162 residents
388 residents
770 residents
594 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY20 9 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+
- 70.6%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 11.8%
- Next Generation Access
- 70.6%
- 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
GLANTWYMYN HEALTH CENTRE
IECHYD BRO DDYFI-DYFI VAL, BRO DDYFI COMMUNITY HOSPITAL, HEOL MAENGWYN, MACHYNLLETH, SY20 8AD
ODS code W96011
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Pennal
BCT · Pennal
- 0.1 miles
Pennal
BCT · Pennal
- 0.1 miles
Riverside Inn
BCT · Pennal
- 0.1 miles
Riverside Inn
BCT · Pennal
- 0.9 miles
Cwrt Car Park
BCT · Cwrt
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
12 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.