Hay-on-Wye

Hay-on-Wye is covered by postcode district HR3. It is mostly in the Powys council area: 75 of its 90 postcodes. The others are in County of Herefordshire. It crosses a national border: 75 are in Wales and 15 in England.

Typical price £310,000 Homes sold in Hay-on-Wye, last 12 months. ▲ 8.8% on the year before Gigabit broadband 16 of 88 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 5 of 15 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 14 homes and businesses at high or medium risk

Every postcode in Hay-on-Wye, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Hay-on-Wye, by flood risk Of the 15 postcodes in Hay-on-Wye in England that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 10 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. The other 75 are in Wales or Scotland, which the Environment Agency's list does not cover. Places named: Hay-on-Wye. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. HR3 5AA: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AB: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AD: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AE: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AF: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AG: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AH: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AJ: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AN: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AP: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AQ: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AR: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AS: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AT: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AU: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AW: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AX: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AY: not covered by the flood listHR3 5AZ: not covered by the flood listHR3 5BA: not covered by the flood listHR3 5BG: not covered by the flood listHR3 5BH: not covered by the flood listHR3 5BJ: not covered by the flood listHR3 5BL: not covered by the flood listHR3 5BN: not covered by the flood listHR3 5BP: not covered by the flood listHR3 5BQ: not covered by the flood listHR3 5BS: not covered by the flood listHR3 5BT: not covered by the flood listHR3 5BU: not covered by the flood listHR3 5BW: not covered by the flood listHR3 5BY: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DA: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DB: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DD: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DE: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DF: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DG: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DH: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DJ: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DL: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DN: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DP: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DQ: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DR: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DS: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DT: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DU: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DW: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DX: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DY: not covered by the flood listHR3 5DZ: not covered by the flood listHR3 5EA: not covered by the flood listHR3 5EB: not covered by the flood listHR3 5ED: not covered by the flood listHR3 5EE: not covered by the flood listHR3 5EF: not covered by the flood listHR3 5EG: not covered by the flood listHR3 5EH: not covered by the flood listHR3 5EJ: not covered by the flood listHR3 5EL: not covered by the flood listHR3 5EQ: not covered by the flood listHR3 5FA: not covered by the flood listHR3 5LF: not covered by the flood listHR3 5PG: not covered by the flood listHR3 5PH: not covered by the flood listHR3 5PJ: not covered by the flood listHR3 5PL: not covered by the flood listHR3 5PW: not covered by the flood listHR3 5QR: not covered by the flood listHR3 5QS: not covered by the flood listHR3 5RE: not covered by the flood listHR3 5TL: not covered by the flood listHR3 5TN: not covered by the flood listHR3 5BZ: not on the flood risk listHR3 5FE: not on the flood risk listHR3 5FF: not on the flood risk listHR3 5QX: not on the flood risk listHR3 5QY: not on the flood risk listHR3 5QZ: not on the flood risk listHR3 5RA: not on the flood risk listHR3 5RB: not on the flood risk listHR3 5RF: not on the flood risk listHR3 5RW: not on the flood risk listHR3 5BE: low flood risk at worstHR3 5RD: low flood risk at worstHR3 5EN: medium flood risk at worstHR3 5BB: high flood riskHR3 5BD: high flood risk Hay-on-Wye Map of every postcode in Hay-on-Wye, by flood risk Of the 15 postcodes in Hay-on-Wye in England that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 10 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. The other 75 are in Wales or Scotland, which the Environment Agency's list does not cover. Places named: Hay-on-Wye. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Hay-on-Wye
  • A home or business at high risk: 2
  • At medium risk at worst: 1
  • At low risk at worst: 2
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 10
  • In Wales or Scotland: not covered by the Environment Agency: 75

Of the 15 postcodes in Hay-on-Wye in England that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 2 are at low risk at worst and 10 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. The other 75 are in Wales or Scotland, which the Environment Agency's list does not cover.

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. 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 52.0734, longitude -3.1264. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: 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. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

HR3 5BD7 at high riskHR3 5BB2 at high risk

What is it like to live in Hay-on-Wye?

Homes sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 8.8% on the 12 months before. At 16 of the 88 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 14 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 15 postcodes.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom and the Environment Agency, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Hay-on-Wye?

Homes in Hay-on-Wye sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 26 sales, up 8.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£310,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£285,000 12 months to August 2025
▲ up 8.8% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £435,000 5 sales
  • Semi-detached £275,000 7 sales
  • Terraced £300,000 13 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole HR3 district, Hay-on-Wye's main postcode district: a typical £375,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Hay-on-Wye: 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 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Hay-on-Wye?

None of the 90 postcodes now in use in Hay-on-Wye came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 36 homes sold in Hay-on-Wye were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the HR3 district, Under 1%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Hay-on-WyeAcross the HR3 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 26 (0%) 0 of 78 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 36 (0%) 1 of 108 (Under 1%)

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.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Hay-on-Wye?

Ofcom reports on 88 of the 90 postcodes in Hay-on-Wye. At 16 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit16 of 88
Postcodes where every home can get superfast82 of 88

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 checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Hay-on-Wye at risk of flooding?

5 of the 15 postcodes in Hay-on-Wye 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 14 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 5 of 15 postcodes High: 9Medium: 5Low: 5

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, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Hay-on-Wye?

Councils
Powys (75) and County of Herefordshire (15)
Parliamentary constituencies
Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe (75) and Hereford and South Herefordshire (15)
Police force areas
Dyfed-Powys (75) and West Mercia (15)
Countries
Wales (75) and England (15)

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Moving to Hay-on-Wye

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Hay-on-Wye is in Powys; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.

Who to tell when moving house: the full list Moving house checklist

Hay-on-Wye postcodes

90 postcodes in use in Hay-on-Wye, by district:

HR3 postcode district,90 postcodes

That district is in the HR postcode area.

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Places near Hay-on-Wye

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Hay-on-Wye's £310,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Talgarth11.2 km, £219,000Kington15.9 km, £201,250Builth Wells20.8 km, £275,000Ewyas Harold and Pontrilas21.9 km, £285,000Brecon22.9 km, £250,000Crickhowell23.7 km, £400,000Presteigne23.7 km, £241,000Llandrindod Wells25.4 km, £230,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Hay-on-Wye

What is it like to live in Hay-on-Wye?
Homes sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 8.8% on the 12 months before. At 16 of the 88 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 14 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 15 postcodes. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom and the Environment Agency, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Hay-on-Wye?
Hay-on-Wye is covered by postcode district HR3, across 90 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Hay-on-Wye?
Homes in Hay-on-Wye sold for a typical £310,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 26 sales, up 8.8% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What broadband can you get in Hay-on-Wye?
Ofcom reports on 88 of the 90 postcodes in Hay-on-Wye. At 16 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Hay-on-Wye at risk of flooding?
5 of the 15 postcodes in Hay-on-Wye 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 14 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Hay-on-Wye?
None of the 90 postcodes now in use in Hay-on-Wye came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 36 homes sold in Hay-on-Wye were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the HR3 district, Under 1%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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