Property market
The five-year median is £261,000 from 6 recorded sales in HR1 4JN. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Herefordshire is £289,715 in June 2026, up 4.8% year on year.
HR1 4JN
Backbury · Herefordshire, County of · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Hereford
- Ward
- Backbury
- Local authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire
- Postcode district
- HR1
- Postcode sector
- HR1 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HR1 4JN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR1
- Postcode sector
- HR1 4
- Latitude
- 52.049743
- Longitude
- -2.674448
- British National Grid easting
- 353,846
- British National Grid northing
- 239,253
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
- Electoral ward
- Backbury · E05009440
- Parish or community
- E04000768
- Westminster constituency
- North Herefordshire · E14001395
- Output area
- E00070614
- Lower layer super output area
- Herefordshire 018A · E01013990
- Middle layer super output area
- Herefordshire 018 · E02002922
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore HR1
Property
29 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Highfield House, Flat 4, Hampton Bishop, Hereford, HR1 4JN | 5 December 2025 | £175,000 |
| Yew Tree Cottage, Hampton Bishop, Hereford, HR1 4JN | 17 November 2023 | £580,000 |
| Highfield House, Flat 5, Hampton Bishop, Hereford, HR1 4JN | 6 November 2023 | £153,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 4
- 899 m
St Paul's CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Hampton Dene Primary School
Community school
- 1.0 km
The Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 246
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 106
- Other theft 39
- Anti social behaviour 32
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Burglary 17
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 41
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- HR1 4 residents
- 6,390
25 female, 16 male
Age bands in HR1 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.8%
910 residents
617 residents
1,139 residents
2,064 residents
1,736 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HR1 4 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 86.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 86.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 86.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 13.3%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
CANTILUPE SURGERY
49-51 ST. OWEN STREET, HEREFORD, HR1 2JB
ODS code M81032
2.7 km
WARGRAVE HOUSE SURGERY
WARGRAVE HOUSE, 23 ST. OWEN STREET, HEREFORD, HR1 2JB
ODS code M81066
2.7 km
HEREFORD MEDICAL GROUP
STATION MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION APPROACH, HEREFORD, HR1 1BB
ODS code M81026
2.9 km
BELMONT MEDICAL CENTRE
EASTHOLME AVENUE, BELMONT, HEREFORD, HR2 7XT
ODS code M81093
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Braemar Gardens
BCT · Hampton Park
- 0.2 miles
Braemar Gardens
BCT · Hampton Park
- 0.2 miles
Franchise Stone
BCT · Hampton Bishop
- 0.2 miles
Franchise Stone
BCT · Hampton Bishop
- 0.2 miles
Sudbury Avenue
BCT · Hampton Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 018A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,870 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Paul's CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 899 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
246 published events cover 12 months, averaging 20.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 106 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.