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2,197 people call this village in Powys, Wales home.
Cost of living is where it shines: the median home sold for £158,100, 3.7 years of area income. It is easy to get around without a car: 27% of commuters walk, cycle or take public transport. Work and incomes lag: households earn a mean £42,240 a year, and 1.9% of 16 to 64s claim unemployment benefits. Safety is weaker too — police record 43 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year, and 10.6 home and vehicle crimes. Among UK towns of 1,000 to 2,500 people, it has less crime per resident than 7%. Hazard risk is weaker too (D): 5.6% of homes face a high or medium risk of river or sea flooding.
Figures: prices, HM Land Registry, the last three years · commuting, Census 2021 · income, ONS · claimants, DWP · crime, police.uk, averaged Sep 2023 to Aug 2026 · flood risk, Natural Resources Wales. Llanidloes has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
Dyfed Powys Police published 32 of the 36 months; rates are per year over the months published. This town's Health Grade uses ONS's small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy for 2019 to 2023, and two Census 2021 measures, bad health and disability, adjusted for age. English towns' grades also use OHID's small-area early deaths, hospital admissions and child obesity, which OHID publishes for England only.
The 3 things Llanidloes does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compared with the 2,160 UK towns with an overall grade (schools within Wales), ordered by how far Llanidloes is from typical. American towns are graded separately.
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Cadw lists them inside Llanidloes’ built-up area.
36% of its homes were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Llanidloes.
The heritage lists give each building’s grade but not its age, so we don’t say which is oldest.
36% of homes were built before 1919. Llanidloes’s listed buildings include the Old Market Hall, Grade I. Cadw’s list names 171 listed buildings here: 1 Grade I, 2 Grade II*. Of Llanidloes’ land, 13% lies in conservation areas, above Powys’ towns (12%) and Wales’s towns (0%) alike.
Cadw list, October 2026 · Valuation Office Agency, homes by build period · OGL
All of them are below. Between them, one primary and one secondary teach 970 pupils in Llanidloes.
| School | Level | Pupils | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Llanidloes C.P. SchoolLargest primary schoolPrimary | Primary | 267 | – |
| Llanidloes High SchoolLargest secondary schoolSecondary | Secondary | 703 | – |
The Census was taken on 21 March 2021, in lockdown, so 22% of workers were mainly at home; shares here are of those who travelled.
For every resident in work, Llanidloes has 0.9 jobs. 37% of commuters who live in Llanidloes also work there. Walking ranked second among ways to work, at 23%.
ONS Census 2021, method of travel and distance to work · ONS small-area income · DWP claimant count · OGL
54% of households are owner-occupiers. From September 2023 to August 2026, 83 homes sold inside Llanidloes’s built-up area at standard prices; the middle one went for £158,100. Private rents average £621 a month across the Powys council area.
| By type | Median | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Detached | £281,000 | 20 |
| Semi-detached | £200,000 | 14 |
| Terraced | £127,250 | 46 |
HM Land Registry Price Paid · ONS private rents · MHCLG / Welsh Government council tax · ONS Census 2021 tenure · OGL
The 12 months to August 2026 brought 144 recorded crimes inside Llanidloes’s built-up area, and 18 reports of anti-social behaviour. Of all the crimes, 63% were violence and sexual offences. Anti-social behaviour, shown but not graded, came to 8.4 reports per 1,000, lower than both Powys’ towns (9) and Wales’s towns (10.4).
Not gradedAnti-social behaviour, shoplifting and other theft are shown but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident.
data.police.uk street-level crime · points inside the ONS built-up-area boundary · OGL · The police category of violence and sexual offences includes harassment and stalking.
Children under 15 make up 16% of residents. People 65 and over make up 29% of the town, higher than both Powys’ towns (27%) and Wales’s towns (21%). Residents of Llanidloes have a median age of 50.7.
52% women, 48% men
About 92 men for every 100 women. Across Wales, 51% of residents are women. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Llanidloes | Powys | Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 16% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.8% | 9.5% | 12% |
| 25–44 | 20% | 21% | 25% |
| 45–64 | 27% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 29% | 27% | 21% |
| No qualifications | 22% | 20% | 20% |
| Apprenticeship | 6.9% | 6.2% | 5.6% |
| A levels or similar | 16% | 17% | 17% |
| Degree level | 29% | 30% | 31% |
ONS Census 2021 · Powys and Wales: all residents of their built-up areas · OGL
One GP practice serves the town. Life expectancy here is 86.2 for women and 79.3 for men (2019–23). At the census, 77% of people in Llanidloes called their health good or very good, about level with Powys’ towns (78%) and below Wales’s towns (78%).
| Census 2021 | Llanidloes | Powys | Wales |
|---|---|---|---|
| Good or very good health | 77% | 78% | 78% |
| Bad or very bad health | 6.5% | 6.5% | 7.1% |
| Disabled (Equality Act) | 22% | 22% | 22% |
ONS Census 2021, general health and disability · ONS, life expectancy 2019–23 · OGL · These answers aren’t adjusted for age, so young towns look healthier; the Health Grade uses age-adjusted measures, including life expectancy.
Museums, castles, gardens and days out in and near Llanidloes. Best known first.
12 notable people were born in Llanidloes.
Richard Gwyn: Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0 · John Bufton: Nathan L Gill, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Elinor Bennett: Sain (Records) Ltd, CC BY-SA 3.0
The nearest built-up areas, from ONS’s 2022 boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Llanidloes | 2,197 | — | — | A | C− | B− |
| Rhayader | 1,837 | 10 | — | A− | D | C− |
| Newtown | 10,882 | 10 | C− | A− | D− | D |
Rhayader has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. People: Census 2021. Miles: centre to centre.
171 on Cadw’s list, 1 of them Grade I and 2 Grade II*. That is 31.9 times the typical UK town for its size. Its Grade I building is Old Market Hall.
Surface water isn’t included. Check a specific address on Natural Resources Wales’s flood risk service.
Homes cost less than in most UK towns: the median sale over three years was £158,100, against £277,000 in the typical UK town. By type: terraced houses £127,250, semi-detached houses £200,000 and detached houses £281,000.
Village in Powys, Wales
Llanidloes is a built-up area of 2,197 people, in the Powys council area. TownRatings uses ONS’s 2022 built-up areas as towns: the physical town, as people mean the word, rather than a council district, so its figures cover the town itself.
Built from ONS geography and Census 2021
Sources: ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · HM Land Registry Price Paid (standard sales, September 2023 to August 2026) · ONS Price Index of Private Rents (August 2026, by council) · MHCLG and Welsh Government council tax, Band D 2026–27 (with parish precepts in England) · data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS small-area life expectancy and healthy life expectancy, 2019 to 2023 (England and Wales), OHID Fingertips small-area indicators (England) and Census 2021 health, adjusted for age · ONS small-area income estimates (financial year ending 2023) · DWP claimant count via Nomis (January to August 2026) · Cadw listed buildings, scheduled monuments and registered historic parks and gardens via DataMapWales, October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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