Property market
The five-year median is £532,750 from 14 recorded sales in SY3 8FN. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Shropshire is £284,036 in June 2026, up 4.9% year on year.
SY3 8FN
Porthill · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Shrewsbury
- Ward
- Porthill
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury
- Postcode district
- SY3
- Postcode sector
- SY3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY3 8FN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY3
- Postcode sector
- SY3 8
- Latitude
- 52.712292
- Longitude
- -2.770770
- British National Grid easting
- 348,026
- British National Grid northing
- 313,014
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Porthill · E05016058
- Parish or community
- E04013487
- Westminster constituency
- Shrewsbury · E14001473
- Output area
- E00147542
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 019C · E01028973
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 019 · E02006033
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 SY3
Property
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Wood Close, Shrewsbury, SY3 8FN | 10 January 2025 | £427,225 |
| 7, Wood Close, Shrewsbury, SY3 8FN | 26 July 2024 | £531,000 |
| 5, Wood Close, Shrewsbury, SY3 8FN | 31 May 2024 | £472,995 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 4
- 446 m
Woodfield Infant School & Nursery
Academy converter
- 462 m
St George's Junior School
Academy converter
- 812 m
Shrewsbury College
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,001
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 832
- Shoplifting 236
- Anti social behaviour 227
- Public order 152
- Criminal damage and arson 133
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY3 8 residents
- 9,246
Age bands in SY3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.6%
1,642 residents
865 residents
2,129 residents
2,835 residents
2,443 residents
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.
GP practices
11
within 5 km straight-line
CLAREMONT BANK SURGERY
CLAREMONT BANK, SHREWSBURY, SY1 1RL
ODS code M82034
939 m
RIVERSIDE MED PRACTICE
THE TANNERY, BARKER STREET, SHREWSBURY, SY1 1QJ
ODS code M82006
1.0 km
URGENT TREATMENT CENTRE
MYTTON OAK ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY3 8XQ
ODS code Y02495
1.6 km
RADBROOK GREEN SURGERY
BANK FARM ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY3 6DU
ODS code M82016
1.8 km
SOUTH HERMITAGE SURGERY
MEDICAL CENTRE, 16 SOUTH HERMITAGE, BELLE VUE, SHREWSBURY, SY3 7JS
ODS code M82060
1.9 km
MYTTON OAK MEDICAL PRACT.
RACECOURSE LANE, SHREWSBURY, SY3 5LZ
ODS code M82002
1.9 km
MARYSVILLE MEDICAL PRACT
BROOK STREET, BELLE VUE, SHREWSBURY, SY3 7QR
ODS code M82040
2.3 km
BELVIDERE MEDICAL PRACT.
23 BELVIDERE ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY2 5LS
ODS code M82048
2.8 km
MARDEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 SUTTON ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY2 6DL
ODS code M82047
3.1 km
SEVERN FIELDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
SEVERN FIELDS HTH VILLAGE, SUNDORNE ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY1 4RQ
ODS code M82032
3.8 km
BEECHES MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BEECHES ROAD, BAYSTON HILL, SHREWSBURY, SY3 0PF
ODS code M82018
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Bus Station Timetable
BCT · Shrewsbury
- 0.9 miles
Shrewsbury Rail Station
RLY · Shrewsbury
- 1.1 miles
Wenlock Edge House
BCT · Gains Park
- 1.6 miles
Gains Park Way Shelter
BCS · Bicton Heath
- 1.7 miles
Baptist Church
BCT · Monkmoor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 019C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,358 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 4 secondary schools. Woodfield Infant School & Nursery is the nearest published school at 446 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,001 published events cover 12 months, averaging 166.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 832 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.