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 9WF
Machynlleth · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Machynlleth
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
- Postcode district
- SY20
- Postcode sector
- SY20 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY20 9WF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 January 2006
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY20
- Postcode sector
- SY20 9
- Latitude
- 52.590371
- Longitude
- -3.852518
- British National Grid easting
- 274,603
- British National Grid northing
- 300,785
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Machynlleth · W05001158
- Parish or community
- W04000326
- Westminster constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr · W07000102
- Output area
- W00002523
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 004C · W01000473
- 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
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
- 163
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 79
- Public order 18
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Burglary 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY20 9 residents
- 2,098
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
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.
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
484 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Wynnstay Arms Hotel
BCT · Machynlleth
- 0.0 miles
Red Lion
BCT · Machynlleth
- 0.0 miles
Clock
BCT · Machynlleth
- 0.0 miles
Machynlleth Town Clock
BCT · Machynlleth
- 0.1 miles
Ysgol Bro Dyfi
BCT · Machynlleth
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
163 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 79 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.