Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Access School is the nearest published school at 953 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY4 3EL
The Meres · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Shrewsbury
- Ward
- The Meres
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY4
- Postcode sector
- SY4 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY4 3EL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY4
- Postcode sector
- SY4 3
- Latitude
- 52.811065
- Longitude
- -2.750736
- British National Grid easting
- 349,494
- British National Grid northing
- 323,987
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- The Meres · E05016075
- Parish or community
- E04011326
- Westminster constituency
- North Shropshire · E14001398
- Output area
- E00146998
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 010B · E01028862
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 010 · E02006021
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 SY4
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Broughton Cottage, Alderton, Shrewsbury, SY4 3EL | 1 June 2021 | £465,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 953 m
Access School
Other independent special school
- 2.2 km
Clive CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.5 km
Smallbrook School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Burglary 1
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- SY4 3 residents
- 4,548
8 female, 8 male
Age bands in SY4 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.9%
611 residents
391 residents
761 residents
1,338 residents
1,144 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY4 3 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 83.3%
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
1
within 5 km
CLIVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, CLIVE, SHREWSBURY, SY4 5PS
ODS code M82017
2.2 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.6 miles
Yorton Rail Station
RLY · Yorton
- 3.4 miles
Wem Rail Station
RLY · Wem
- 6.3 miles
Kennels
BCT · Roden
- 6.3 miles
Kennels
BCT · Roden
- 6.5 miles
Marlebrook Way
BCT · Roden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 010B, 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
19,265 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
- 0
- 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
Recorded crime
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.