Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Gynradd Pennal is the nearest published school at 2.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY20 9JR
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 9JR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY20
- Postcode sector
- SY20 9
- Latitude
- 52.596105
- Longitude
- -3.871010
- British National Grid easting
- 273,367
- British National Grid northing
- 301,455
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Ysgubor Uchaf, Machynlleth, SY20 9JR | 9 February 2017 | £131,333 |
| Hafodty, Machynlleth, SY20 9JR | 30 July 2009 | £302,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.7 km
Ysgol Gynradd Pennal
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 89
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 38
- Criminal damage and arson 14
- Public order 11
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Other theft 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- SY20 9 residents
- 2,098
4 female, 3 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 0.3% 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+
- 88.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 88.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 88.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 88.9%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 88.9%
- 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
1.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Bus Depot
BCT · Machynlleth
- 0.7 miles
Bus Depot
BCT · Machynlleth
- 0.7 miles
Machynlleth Rail Station
RSE · Machynlleth
- 0.7 miles
Machynlleth Rail Station
RSE · Machynlleth
- 0.7 miles
Machynlleth Rail Station
RLY · Machynlleth
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
89 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 38 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.