Property market
The five-year median is £262,500 from 6 recorded sales in SY5 6JA. 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 6JA
Severn Valley · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Shrewsbury
- Ward
- Severn Valley
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY5
- Postcode sector
- SY5 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY5 6JA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY5
- Postcode sector
- SY5 6
- Latitude
- 52.679321
- Longitude
- -2.727442
- British National Grid easting
- 350,916
- British National Grid northing
- 309,316
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Severn Valley · E05016065
- Parish or community
- E04013484
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00147469
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 024F · E01035068
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 024 · E02006038
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
52 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Betton Hall Flats, Flat 7, Betton Strange, Shrewsbury, SY5 6JA | 31 July 2025 | £175,000 |
| Betton Hall Flats, Flat 17, Betton Strange, Shrewsbury, SY5 6JA | 18 December 2024 | £140,000 |
| Betton Mews, Hunter Lodge, Betton Strange, Shrewsbury, SY5 6JA | 17 April 2024 | £455,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.7 km
Mereside Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 2.5 km
Prestfelde School
Other independent school
- 2.7 km
Meole Brace Church of England Primary School and Nursery
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 245
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 107
- Shoplifting 39
- Anti social behaviour 31
- Other theft 18
- Public order 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 31
- Postcode households
- 25
- Residents per household
- 1.2
- SY5 6 residents
- 3,857
11 female, 20 male
Age bands in SY5 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.9%
662 residents
347 residents
827 residents
1,332 residents
1,049 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY5 6 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
- 100%
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
8
within 5 km straight-line
MARDEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 SUTTON ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY2 6DL
ODS code M82047
2.1 km
MARYSVILLE MEDICAL PRACT
BROOK STREET, BELLE VUE, SHREWSBURY, SY3 7QR
ODS code M82040
2.4 km
SOUTH HERMITAGE SURGERY
MEDICAL CENTRE, 16 SOUTH HERMITAGE, BELLE VUE, SHREWSBURY, SY3 7JS
ODS code M82060
2.8 km
BEECHES MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BEECHES ROAD, BAYSTON HILL, SHREWSBURY, SY3 0PF
ODS code M82018
3.1 km
BELVIDERE MEDICAL PRACT.
23 BELVIDERE ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY2 5LS
ODS code M82048
3.1 km
RADBROOK GREEN SURGERY
BANK FARM ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY3 6DU
ODS code M82016
3.8 km
RIVERSIDE MED PRACTICE
THE TANNERY, BARKER STREET, SHREWSBURY, SY1 1QJ
ODS code M82006
3.8 km
CLAREMONT BANK SURGERY
CLAREMONT BANK, SHREWSBURY, SY1 1RL
ODS code M82034
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 2.2 miles
Baptist Church
BCT · Monkmoor
- 2.2 miles
Flagwall
BCT · Monkmoor
- 2.4 miles
Bus Station Timetable
BCT · Shrewsbury
- 2.4 miles
Shrewsbury Rail Station
RLY · Shrewsbury
- 3.4 miles
Wenlock Edge House
BCT · Gains Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 024F, 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
15,707 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Mereside Church of England Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
245 published events cover 12 months, averaging 20.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 107 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.