Property market
The five-year median is £318,500 from 2 recorded sales in SY4 5QS. 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.
SY4 5QS
Wem · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Shrewsbury
- Ward
- Wem
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY4
- Postcode sector
- SY4 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY4 5QS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY4
- Postcode sector
- SY4 5
- Latitude
- 52.863013
- Longitude
- -2.722252
- British National Grid easting
- 351,472
- British National Grid northing
- 329,746
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Wem · E05016078
- Parish or community
- E04011380
- Westminster constituency
- North Shropshire · E14001398
- Output area
- E00147123
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 008C · E01028889
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 008 · E02006019
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
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Landona Cottages, 3, Love Lane, Wem, Shrewsbury, SY4 5QS | 22 May 2026 | £377,000 |
| Landona Cottages, 5, Love Lane, Wem, Shrewsbury, SY4 5QS | 23 August 2024 | £260,000 |
| Landona Cottages, 4, Love Lane, Wem, Shrewsbury, SY4 5QS | 30 April 2020 | £1,300,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 510 m
St Peter's CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 677 m
The Thomas Adams School
Academy converter
- 2.9 km
Woodlands School
Academy special sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 405
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 195
- Anti social behaviour 61
- Criminal damage and arson 31
- Shoplifting 25
- Public order 21
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 32
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 4.6
- SY4 5 residents
- 9,491
12 female, 20 male
Age bands in SY4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 26%
1,320 residents
1,139 residents
1,724 residents
2,726 residents
2,431 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY4 5 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
WEM AND PREES MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEW STREET, WEM, SHREWSBURY, SY4 5AF
ODS code M82035
408 m
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Wem Rail Station
RLY · Wem
- 2.9 miles
Prees Rail Station
RLY · Prees
- 3.8 miles
Yorton Rail Station
RLY · Yorton
- 6.3 miles
Old Bronington Post Office
BCT · Bronington
- 6.3 miles
Old Bronington Post Office
BCT · Bronington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 008C, 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
22,125 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 1
- 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
6 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. St Peter's CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 510 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
405 published events cover 12 months, averaging 33.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 195 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.