SY5 0JW
Chirbury & Worthen · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
- Post town
- Shrewsbury
- Ward
- Chirbury & Worthen
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY5
- Postcode sector
- SY5 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY5 0JW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY5
- Postcode sector
- SY5 0
- Latitude
- 52.558478
- Longitude
- -2.984833
- British National Grid easting
- 333,331
- British National Grid northing
- 296,081
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Chirbury & Worthen · E05016028
- Parish or community
- E04011397
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00147776
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 030F · E01035071
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 030 · E02006041
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 SY5
Property
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Berth House, Shelve, Shrewsbury, SY5 0JW | 25 March 2013 | £355,000 |
| Lower Brookshill, Shelve, Shrewsbury, SY5 0JW | 16 June 2009 | £300,000 |
| Berth House, Shelve, Shrewsbury, SY5 0JW | 19 July 2000 | £125,000 |
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 21
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- SY5 0 residents
- 6,212
13 female, 8 male
Age bands in SY5 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.7%
891 residents
550 residents
1,161 residents
1,832 residents
1,872 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY5 0 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
- 42.9%
- Next Generation Access
- 0%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 57.1%
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
- 3.7 miles
Post Office
BCT · Churchstoke
- 3.9 miles
Old School House
BCT · Churchstoke
- 3.9 miles
Old School House
BCT · Churchstoke
- 6.0 miles
Meadowcroft Cafe
BCT · Pentrehyling
- 7.0 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Forden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 030F, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,042 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 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.