Schools
1 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Syr John Rhys is the nearest published school at 3.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY23 3LD
Melindwr · Ceredigion · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Aberystwyth
- Ward
- Melindwr
- Local authority
- Ceredigion
- Constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli
- Postcode district
- SY23
- Postcode sector
- SY23 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY23 3LD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY23
- Postcode sector
- SY23 3
- Latitude
- 52.428178
- Longitude
- -3.773504
- British National Grid easting
- 279,512
- British National Grid northing
- 282,611
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Ceredigion · W06000008
- Electoral ward
- Melindwr · W05001323
- Parish or community
- W04000361
- Westminster constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli · W07000093
- Output area
- W00002902
- Lower layer super output area
- Ceredigion 011C · W01000543
- Middle layer super output area
- Ceredigion 011 · W02000421
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 SY23
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Fagwyr Fawr, Ponterwyd, Aberystwyth, SY23 3LD | 30 September 2016 | £1,291,445 |
| Erw Bach Duw, Ponterwyd, Aberystwyth, SY23 3LD | 5 April 2012 | £100,000 |
| Erw Bach Duw, Ponterwyd, Aberystwyth, SY23 3LD | 29 April 2005 | £82,750 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 1
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 4.9 km
Ysgol Syr John Rhys
Welsh establishment
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- SY23 3 residents
- 10,265
3 female, 3 male
Age bands in SY23 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 29.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.2%
1,405 residents
3,300 residents
2,017 residents
2,321 residents
2,142 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY23 3 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
- 1.4 miles
Dyffryn Castle Hotel
BCT · Ponterwyd
- 1.4 miles
Dyffryn Castle Hotel
BCT · Ponterwyd
- 2.8 miles
Pont Rhydgaled
BCT · Pant Mawr
- 2.8 miles
Pont Rhydgaled
BCT · Pant Mawr
- 3.0 miles
Penlon
BCT · Ponterwyd