HR3 postcode district: Hay-on-Wye and around
HR3 is a postcode district mostly in England, with 435 postcodes in use in 2 sectors. It has postcodes in Hay-on-Wye and Hereford. It is split between 2 councils: County of Herefordshire (226 postcodes) and Powys (209). It crosses a national border: 226 are in England and 209 in Wales.
- Postcodes in use
- 435
- Sectors
- 2
- Councils
- 2 councils
- Places
- 2 places
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in HR3, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 154
- Some can get gigabit: 114
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 160
- Ofcom gives no figure: 7
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together
Of the 435 postcodes in HR3 that ONS places, 154 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 114 have some that can, 160 can all get it and 7 have no Ofcom figure.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 590 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.0946, longitude -3.0879. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
Postcodes without gigabit
154 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.
Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together
- 45 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. HR3 5FD, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 20 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. HR3 5NW, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 15 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. HR3 5HL, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 7 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. HR3 6EG, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. HR3 6BT, is the one nearest the middle of them.
- 5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. HR3 5NE, is the one nearest the middle of them.
What broadband can you get in HR3?
Ofcom reports on 428 of the 435 postcodes in HR3. At 160 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 20 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is HR3 at risk of flooding?
51 of the 226 postcodes in HR3 that are in England have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 138 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
What do homes sell for in HR3?
Homes in HR3 sold for a typical £370,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 82 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £355,000 from 105 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £437,500 46 sales
- Semi-detached £275,000 19 sales
- Terraced £295,000 16 sales
- Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Postcodes in HR3
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in HR3
Towns and villages with postcodes in HR3, and how many each has here.
Who covers HR3
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
What council am I in?Constituencies
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe209
- North Herefordshire138
- Hereford and South Herefordshire88
Police force areas
- West Mercia226
- Dyfed-Powys209
Next to HR3
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after HR3 in the HR area.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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