Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Forden C.I.W. School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY21 8LY
Forden and Montgomery · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
- Postcode district
- SY21
- Postcode sector
- SY21 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY21 8LY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY21
- Postcode sector
- SY21 8
- Latitude
- 52.613427
- Longitude
- -3.125949
- British National Grid easting
- 323,860
- British National Grid northing
- 302,333
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.6 km
Forden C.I.W. School
Welsh establishment
- 3.9 km
Leighton C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 4.5 km
Chirbury CofE VC Primary School & Busy Bees Nursery
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 31
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 18
- Public order 3
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Vehicle crime 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY21 8 residents
- 4,734
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
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Cock Hotel
BCT · Forden
- 0.0 miles
The Cock Hotel
BCT · Forden
- 0.2 miles
Stone House Court
BCT · Forden
- 0.2 miles
Stone House Court
BCT · Forden
- 0.9 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Forden
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
31 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 18 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.