Hay-on-Wye

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

Homes sold for a typical £300,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. 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.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Hay-on-Wye?

Homes in Hay-on-Wye sold for a typical £300,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 27 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £277,500 from 38 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

• Detached 4 sales, too few to price
• Semi-detached £297,500 8 sales
• Terraced £295,000 14 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 £370,500.

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 October 2026.

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 September 2025, 0 of the 38 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

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 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.

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 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.

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.

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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.