Property market
The five-year median is £761,988 from 1 recorded sale in SY5 0SW. 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.
SY5 0SW
Bishop's Castle · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Shrewsbury
- Ward
- Bishop's Castle
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY5
- Postcode sector
- SY5 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY5 0SW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY5
- Postcode sector
- SY5 0
- Latitude
- 52.591972
- Longitude
- -2.882592
- British National Grid easting
- 340,308
- British National Grid northing
- 299,717
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Bishop's Castle · E05016018
- Parish or community
- E04011344
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00147647
- 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
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Leasowes House, Ratlinghope, Shrewsbury, SY5 0SW | 11 April 2024 | £761,988 |
| Leasowes Bank Farm, Ratlinghope, Shrewsbury, SY5 0SW | 10 March 2014 | £440,000 |
| Leasowes House, Ratlinghope, Shrewsbury, SY5 0SW | 24 May 2013 | £547,250 |
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Drugs 2
- Violence and sexual offences 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- SY5 0 residents
- 6,212
5 female, 5 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 0.2% 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
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 75%
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
- 4.4 miles
Carding Mill Valley
BCT · Devils Mouth
- 5.0 miles
Church Stretton Rail Station
RLY · Church Stretton
- 8.8 miles
Gains Park Way Shelter
BCS · Bicton Heath
- 8.8 miles
Wenlock Edge House
BCT · Gains Park
- 9.8 miles
Bus Station Timetable
BCT · Shrewsbury
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
- 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
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Drugs with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.