Property market
The five-year median is £230,500 from 2 recorded sales in SY21 8RU. 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 8RU
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 8RU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY21
- Postcode sector
- SY21 8
- Latitude
- 52.627306
- Longitude
- -3.140223
- British National Grid easting
- 322,918
- British National Grid northing
- 303,892
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Maesfron, Cilcewydd, Welshpool, SY21 8RU | 18 August 2025 | £250,000 |
| Cartref, Cilcewydd, Welshpool, SY21 8RU | 7 October 2022 | £211,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.7 km
Leighton C.P. School
Welsh establishment
- 2.8 km
Forden C.I.W. School
Welsh establishment
- 3.2 km
Ysgol Gymraeg y Trallwng
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Drugs 1
- Shoplifting 1
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 1.2
- SY21 8 residents
- 4,734
4 female, 2 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
WELSHPOOL MEDICAL CENTRE
SALOP ROAD, WELSHPOOL, SY21 7ER
ODS code W96010
3.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Clicewydd
BCT · Welshpool
- 0.2 miles
Clicewydd
BCT · Welshpool
- 0.3 miles
Severn Caravan Park
BCT · Cil-Cewydd
- 0.3 miles
Severn Caravan Park
BCT · Cil-Cewydd
- 1.0 miles
Coed-y-Dinas
BCT · Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled
Evidence in context
Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Leighton C.P. School is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.