Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Welshpool High School is the nearest published school at 561 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY21 7BX
Welshpool Castle · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Welshpool Castle
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
- Postcode district
- SY21
- Postcode sector
- SY21 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY21 7BX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY21
- Postcode sector
- SY21 7
- Latitude
- 52.660659
- Longitude
- -3.138399
- British National Grid easting
- 323,100
- British National Grid northing
- 307,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Welshpool Castle · W05001172
- Parish or community
- W04000352
- Westminster constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr · W07000102
- Output area
- W00002674
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 003B · W01000499
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 003 · W02000099
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 SY21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 561 m
Welshpool High School
Welsh establishment
- 636 m
Ysgol Gymraeg y Trallwng
Welsh establishment
- 675 m
Welshpool Church in Wales Primary School
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 739
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 349
- Anti social behaviour 80
- Public order 61
- Criminal damage and arson 53
- Shoplifting 45
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY21 7 residents
- 5,892
Age bands in SY21 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.5%
962 residents
668 residents
1,391 residents
1,528 residents
1,398 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
WELSHPOOL MEDICAL CENTRE
SALOP ROAD, WELSHPOOL, SY21 7ER
ODS code W96010
238 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Medical Centre
BCT · Welshpool
- 0.1 miles
Medical Centre
BCT · Welshpool
- 0.2 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Welshpool
- 0.2 miles
Welshpool Tesco
BCT · Welshpool
- 0.2 miles
Cobden Street
BCT · Welshpool
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
739 published events cover 12 months, averaging 61.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 349 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.