Neighbourhoods in Powys
Tap any row or map polygon to drill into that neighbourhood — hovering on desktop will preview the link before you click. Switch the tab strip above the table to focus on Affordability, Schools, Transport, Safety or Wealth — the columns swap and the default sort follows.
19 neighbourhoods · 79 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Ystradgynlais & Tawe Uchaf | £482 | +10.3% | 37 | 46 |
| Welshpool | £529 | +10.3% | 70 | 26 |
| Newtown South | £531 | +10.3% | 37 | 10 |
| Machynlleth & Banwy | £546 | +10.3% | 95 | 97 |
| Newtown North | £562 | +10.3% | 82 | 86 |
| Llandrindod Wells | £572 | +10.3% | 73 | 24 |
| Montgomery, Trewern & Berriew | £588 | +10.3% | 43 | 88 |
| Llanidloes, Blaen Hafren & Llandinam | £596 | +10.3% | 42 | 83 |
| Llanfyllin & Llanwyddyn | £602 | +10.3% | 24 | 94 |
| Llanfair Caereinion & Caersws | £607 | +10.3% | 41 | 96 |
| Abermule, Churchstoke & Kerry | £615 | +10.3% | 27 | 85 |
| Builth Wells & Llanwrtyd Wells | £625 | +10.3% | 37 | 75 |
| Brecon | £645 | +10.3% | 28 | 58 |
| Four Crosses & Guilsfield | £659 | +10.3% | 48 | 90 |
| Rhayader, Newbridge-on-Wye & Elan Valley | £663 | +10.3% | 40 | 73 |
| Hay-on-Wye & Talgarth | £677 | +10.3% | 13 | 79 |
| Sennybridge & Talybont-on-Usk | £686 | +10.3% | 12 | 90 |
| Knighton & Presteigne | £689 | +10.3% | 13 | 77 |
| Crickhowell, Llangynidr & Llangorse | £826 | +10.3% | 9 | 93 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Powys
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Powys. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Powys median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Powys.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Powys
Crime in Powys runs at 49% below the national average. Above median (#81 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 51.5, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Powys
Distribution of Ofsted ratings amongst schools serving this council area.
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Powys
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Powys
Powys has 0.37 jobs per resident locally. Below median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Powys
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Powys?
- The median monthly rent across Powys is £621, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Powys?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Powys by estimated median rent is Ystradgynlais & Tawe Uchaf at approximately £482/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Powys?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Powys is Machynlleth & Banwy at 95/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Powys a safe area?
- Powys has an average safety score of 68/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is the average salary in Powys?
- The median annual resident salary in Powys is £30,275, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Powys, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Powys?
- The average property price in Powys is approximately £233,245 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Powys?
- Gross rental yield in Powys is approximately 2.8% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Powys?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 4.0 years in Powys. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Powys?
- 73% of premises in Powys are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Powys?
- 2.7% of 16-64 residents in Powys are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Powys?
- Powys contains 19 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 79 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
- How does Powys compare to other UK areas?
- Powys's average liveability score is 39/100. To compare it side-by-side with another local authority, use the comparison tool at /compare. To see how every council area in Wales ranks across rent, safety, schools and transport, see /gb/wales.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Powys
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Powys 021C
- Powys 009A
- Powys 018H
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- Powys 008C
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- Powys 021F
- Powys 015D
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- Powys 009C
- Powys 020B
- Powys 009B
- Powys 008B
- Powys 007B
- Powys 015B
- Powys 002A
- Powys 017D
- Powys 006C
- Powys 003C
- Powys 004B
- Powys 007C
- Powys 013B
- Powys 002C
- Powys 015E
- Powys 006A
- Powys 008A
- Powys 018G
- Powys 014E
- Powys 021B
- Powys 001F
- Powys 013C
- Powys 006B
- Powys 007A
- Powys 020D
- Powys 013A
- Powys 001A
- Powys 001E
- Powys 021D
- Powys 003B
- Powys 011C
- Powys 017G
- Powys 014A
- Powys 012E
- Powys 011E
- Powys 004C
- Powys 011B
- Powys 010D
- Powys 005A
- Powys 021A
- Powys 021E
- Powys 011G
- Powys 004A
- Powys 015A
- Powys 011F
- Powys 018E
- Powys 015C
- Powys 010A
- Powys 001G
- Powys 005C
- Powys 012B
- Powys 012C
- Powys 011A
- Powys 011D
- Powys 012D
- Powys 014C
- Powys 020A
- Powys 005B
- Powys 003A
- Powys 010C
- Powys 005D
- Powys 012A
- Powys 014B
- Powys 014D
- Powys 020C
- Powys 010B