Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Penllwyn is the nearest published school at 2.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY23 3NF
Melindwr · Ceredigion · Wales
Updated September 2026
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- 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 3NF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY23
- Postcode sector
- SY23 3
- Latitude
- 52.398557
- Longitude
- -3.921040
- British National Grid easting
- 269,394
- British National Grid northing
- 279,573
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Wales · W92000004
- Region
- W99999999
- Local authority district
- Ceredigion · W06000008
- Electoral ward
- Melindwr · W05001323
- Parish or community
- W04000393
- Westminster constituency
- Ceredigion Preseli · W07000093
- Output area
- W00002906
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 4.4 km
Ysgol Penllwyn
Welsh establishment
- 4.5 km
Ysgol Llanfihangel-Y-Creuddyn
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY23 3 residents
- 10,265
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
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
- 0.1 miles
Felin Newydd
BCT · Aber-ffrwd
- 0.1 miles
Felin Newydd
BCT · Aber-ffrwd
- 0.7 miles
Aberffrwd
BCT · Aber-ffrwd
- 0.7 miles
Aberffrwd (Vale of Rheidol Railway)
MET · Aber-ffrwd
- 1.0 miles
Old Goginan
BCT · Goginan
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.