Brecon
Brecon is covered by postcode district LD3. It is in the Powys council area, Wales.
Every postcode in Brecon, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 63
- Some can get gigabit: 64
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 158
- Ofcom gives no figure: 5
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together
Of the 290 postcodes in Brecon that ONS places, 63 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 64 have some that can, 158 can all get it and 5 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 150 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 51.9480, longitude -3.3915. 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
63 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.
What is it like to live in Brecon?
Homes sold for a typical £246,385 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 158 of the 285 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. It has 4 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Welsh Government school list; NHS GP practices. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Brecon?
Homes in Brecon sold for a typical £246,385 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 90 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £262,750 from 116 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £300,000 27 sales
- Semi-detached £250,000 25 sales
- Terraced £196,000 33 sales
- Flat or maisonette £100,000 5 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole LD3 district, Brecon's main postcode district: a typical £264,500.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Brecon: 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.
Are new homes being built in Brecon?
9 of the 290 postcodes now in use in Brecon came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 12 of the 116 homes sold in Brecon were newly built (10%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LD3 district, 6%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Brecon | Across the LD3 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 1 of 90 (1%) | 1 of 173 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 12 of 116 (10%) | 12 of 212 (6%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Brecon?
Ofcom reports on 285 of the 290 postcodes in Brecon. At 158 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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.
Which schools are in Brecon?
The open schools at the postcodes in Brecon. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
Secondary
Source: Welsh Government school list, read 27 October 2026. Each school opens its page on My Local School.
Which GP surgeries are in Brecon?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Brecon. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Ty Henry Vaughan Phone 01874 622121 300 mWalk
- Brecon Medical Facility Phone 01874 613554 1.9 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Source: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026.
Is Brecon safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 832 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Brecon over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 54 September 2025
- 70 October 2025
- 64 November 2025
- 52 December 2025
- 75 January 2026
- 66 February 2026
- 79 March 2026
- 66 April 2026
- 69 May 2026
- 72 June 2026
- 92 July 2026
- 73 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: vehicle crime 21, other crime 19, possession of weapons 9, robbery 4, theft from the person 3, bicycle theft 3.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Brecon?
- Council
- Powys
- Parliamentary constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe
- Police force area
- Dyfed-Powys
- Country
- Wales
- MP
- David Chadwick (Liberal Democrat)
All 290 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving to Brecon
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Powys about council tax Council tax, on en.powys.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Brecon
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Brecon postcodes
290 postcodes in use in Brecon, by district:
That district is in the LD postcode area.
Check a Brecon postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Brecon
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Brecon's £246,385. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Brecon
- What is the postcode for Brecon?
- Postcode district LD3, with 290 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Brecon in?
- Powys. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Brecon?
- David Chadwick (Liberal Democrat), for Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Brecon?
- A typical £246,385 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 90 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Brecon?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Ysgol Golwg Pen Y Fan, Priory Church In Wales School and Llanfaes C.p. School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Brecon High School. Source: Welsh Government.
- What broadband can you get in Brecon?
- Ofcom reports on 285 of the 290 postcodes in Brecon. At 158 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Are new homes being built in Brecon?
- 9 of the 290 postcodes now in use in Brecon came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 12 of the 116 homes sold in Brecon were newly built (10%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the LD3 district, 6%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Welsh Government school list
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
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