Property market
The five-year median is £600,000 from 1 recorded sale in SY21 8JZ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Powys is £231,004 in June 2026, up 2.9% year on year.
SY21 8JZ
Forden and Montgomery · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Welshpool
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
- Postcode district
- SY21
- Postcode sector
- SY21 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY21 8JZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY21
- Postcode sector
- SY21 8
- Latitude
- 52.614784
- Longitude
- -3.085602
- British National Grid easting
- 326,594
- British National Grid northing
- 302,442
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Powys · W06000023
- Electoral ward
- Forden and Montgomery · W05001130
- Parish or community
- W04000273
- Westminster constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr · W07000102
- Output area
- W00002349
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 005B · W01000441
- Middle layer super output area
- Powys 005 · W02000101
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Pentrenant, Marton, Welshpool, SY21 8JZ | 30 June 2022 | £600,000 |
| Highgate, Marton, Welshpool, SY21 8JZ | 4 March 2020 | £1,750 |
| Keepers Cottage, Marton, Welshpool, SY21 8JZ | 11 January 2008 | £195,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.9 km
Forden C.I.W. School
Welsh establishment
- 3.9 km
Chirbury CofE VC Primary School & Busy Bees Nursery
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.5 km
Leighton C.P. School
Welsh establishment
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- SY21 8 residents
- 4,734
3 female, 3 male
Age bands in SY21 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.5%
637 residents
491 residents
887 residents
1,424 residents
1,303 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY21 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
- 1.6 miles
Stone House Court
BCT · Forden
- 1.6 miles
Stone House Court
BCT · Forden
- 1.7 miles
The Cock Hotel
BCT · Forden
- 1.7 miles
The Cock Hotel
BCT · Forden
- 2.2 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Forden
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Forden C.I.W. School is the nearest published school at 2.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.