HR4 7QA

Credenhill · Herefordshire, County of · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Post town: Hereford
Ward: Credenhill
Local authority: Herefordshire, County of
Constituency: North Herefordshire
Postcode district: HR4
Postcode sector: HR4 7

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
HR4 7QB	179 m
HR4 7PT	429 m
HR4 7PW	482 m
HR4 7QD	499 m
HR4 7QE	651 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: HR4 7QA
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: HR
Postcode district: HR4
Postcode sector: HR4 7
Latitude: 52.072339
Longitude: -2.796483
British National Grid easting: 345,505
British National Grid northing: 241,851

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: West Midlands · E12000005
Local authority district: Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
Electoral ward: Credenhill · E05012957
Parish or community: E04012879
Westminster constituency: North Herefordshire · E14001395
Output area: E00070740
Lower layer super output area: Herefordshire 007B · E01014012
Middle layer super output area: Herefordshire 007 · E02002911

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

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Property

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2 recorded sales at this postcode

Address	Date	Price
Kites Nest Cottage, 1, Swainshill, Hereford, HR4 7QA	31 May 2023	£235,000
Kites Nest Inn, Swainshill, Hereford, HR4 7QA	10 August 2021	£350,000

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 9
Primary: 6
Secondary: 1

Stretton Sugwas CofE Academy

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1.1 km
St Mary's CofE Primary School

Voluntary controlled school
1.7 km
Burghill Community Academy

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3.5 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 54
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 31
Other theft 5
Anti social behaviour 4
Burglary 3
Public order 3

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 18
Postcode households: 8
Residents per household: 2.3
HR4 7 residents: 5,886

Age bands in HR4 7

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 16.2%
Age 15 to 24: 8.7%
Age 25 to 44: 22.1%
Age 45 to 64: 27.6%
Age 65 and over: 25.4%

This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HR4 7 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+: 100%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 100%
Gigabit-capable: 100%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 0%
Next Generation Access: 100%
Decent broadband available from fixed wireless: 0%

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.

Nearby transport

Post Office

BCT · Swainshill
0.1 miles
Post Office

BCT · Swainshill
0.1 miles
Village Hall

BCT · Stretton Sugwas
0.3 miles
Village Hall

BCT · Stretton Sugwas
0.3 miles
Stretton Sugwas Turn

BCT · Swainshill
0.3 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 007B, 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

8 of 10

Overall England rank

25,738 of 33,755

Income: 9 of 10
Employment: 8 of 10
Education and skills: 8 of 10
Health and disability: 8 of 10
Crime: 10 of 10
Housing and services: 3 of 10
Living environment: 4 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

Property market

The five-year median is £292,500 from 2 recorded sales in HR4 7QA. 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.

Schools

9 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Stretton Sugwas CofE Academy is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

54 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 31 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.