Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Penllwyn is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY23 3NR
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 3NR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY23
- Postcode sector
- SY23 3
- Latitude
- 52.404009
- Longitude
- -3.962426
- British National Grid easting
- 266,595
- British National Grid northing
- 280,255
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
- W00002907
- 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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Tyllwyd Cottage, Capel Bangor, Aberystwyth, SY23 3NR | 20 October 2017 | £188,000 |
| Fronheulog, Capel Bangor, Aberystwyth, SY23 3NR | 30 April 2009 | £120,000 |
| Tyllwyd Cottage, Capel Bangor, Aberystwyth, SY23 3NR | 7 December 2000 | £82,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.5 km
Ysgol Penllwyn
Welsh establishment
- 4.1 km
Ysgol Llanfihangel-Y-Creuddyn
Welsh establishment
- 4.4 km
Ysgol Penrhyncoch
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 18
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 12
- Public order 3
- Other theft 1
- Vehicle crime 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- SY23 3 residents
- 10,265
6 female, 8 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+
- 100%
- 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
- 0.0 miles
Afallon
BCT · Maes-bangor
- 0.0 miles
Afallon
BCT · Maes-bangor
- 0.4 miles
Cefn Melindwr
BCT · Capel-Bangor
- 0.4 miles
Cefn Melindwr
BCT · Capel-Bangor
- 0.6 miles
Tynllidiart Arms
BCT · Capel-Bangor
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
18 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 12 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.