Property market
The five-year median is £350,250 from 2 recorded sales in SY21 8SQ. 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 8SQ
Welshpool Castle · Powys · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Welshpool
- Ward
- Welshpool Castle
- Local authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr
- Postcode district
- SY21
- Postcode sector
- SY21 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY21 8SQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY21
- Postcode sector
- SY21 8
- Latitude
- 52.631528
- Longitude
- -3.173697
- British National Grid easting
- 320,660
- British National Grid northing
- 304,398
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
- W00002664
- Lower layer super output area
- Powys 003A · W01000498
- 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
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Stone House, Belan, Welshpool, SY21 8SQ | 12 July 2022 | £311,000 |
| Erwdawel, Belan, Welshpool, SY21 8SQ | 24 February 2022 | £389,500 |
| 2, Coppice Cottage, Belan, Welshpool, SY21 8SQ | 26 April 2021 | £80,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.7 km
Amberleigh Residential Therapeutic School
Welsh establishment
- 3.4 km
Welshpool Church in Wales Primary School
Welsh establishment
- 3.4 km
Ysgol Gymraeg y Trallwng
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 3
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Drugs 1
- Shoplifting 1
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 27
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- SY21 8 residents
- 4,734
17 female, 10 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 0.6% 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
- 25%
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
4.1 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
- 1.0 miles
Coed-y-Dinas
BCT · Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled
- 1.0 miles
Coed-y-Dinas
BCT · Sarn-y-Bryn-Caled
- 1.3 miles
Coed Y Dinas
BCT · Welshpool
- 1.3 miles
Clicewydd
BCT · Welshpool
- 1.4 miles
Clicewydd
BCT · Welshpool
Evidence in context
Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Amberleigh Residential Therapeutic 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
10 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.