Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Ysgol Mynach is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY23 3PJ
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 3PJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1999
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY23
- Postcode sector
- SY23 3
- Latitude
- 52.394141
- Longitude
- -3.875197
- British National Grid easting
- 272,500
- British National Grid northing
- 279,000
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
- W00002903
- 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
- 2.5 km
Ysgol Mynach
Welsh establishment
- 3.1 km
Ysgol Syr John Rhys
Welsh establishment
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other crime 1
- Violence and sexual offences 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Rhiwfron (Vale of Rheidol Railway)
MET · Pontarfynach
- 1.1 miles
Rheidol Falls (Vale of Rheidol Railway)
MET · Aber-ffrwd
- 1.2 miles
Silver-Lead Mine Museum
BCT · Llywernog
- 1.2 miles
Silver-Lead Mine Museum
BCT · Llywernog
- 1.3 miles
Pont Rhydlydan
BCT · Llywernog
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other crime with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.