Property market
The five-year median is £214,000 from 8 recorded sales in SY5 8BX. 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 8BX
Longden · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Shrewsbury
- Ward
- Longden
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury
- Postcode district
- SY5
- Postcode sector
- SY5 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY5 8BX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY5
- Postcode sector
- SY5 8
- Latitude
- 52.691520
- Longitude
- -2.841674
- British National Grid easting
- 343,209
- British National Grid northing
- 310,757
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Longden · E05016042
- Parish or community
- E04011341
- Westminster constituency
- Shrewsbury · E14001473
- Output area
- E00147557
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 026D · E01028976
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 026 · E02006039
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
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, The Old Hare And Hounds, Cruckton, Shrewsbury, SY5 8BX | 23 July 2025 | £200,000 |
| 12, The Old Hare And Hounds, Cruckton, Shrewsbury, SY5 8BX | 12 June 2025 | £200,000 |
| 10, The Old Hare And Hounds, Cruckton, Shrewsbury, SY5 8BX | 6 June 2025 | £200,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 659 m
The Fitzroy Academy
Other independent special school
- 1.4 km
St Thomas and St Anne CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.0 km
Trinity CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 45
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 27
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Public order 4
- Burglary 3
- Other crime 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY5 8 residents
- 4,594
Age bands in SY5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.6%
747 residents
367 residents
912 residents
1,124 residents
922 residents
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+
- 60%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 60%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 60%
- Gigabit-capable
- 60%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 40%
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
MYTTON OAK MEDICAL PRACT.
RACECOURSE LANE, SHREWSBURY, SY3 5LZ
ODS code M82002
3.5 km
URGENT TREATMENT CENTRE
MYTTON OAK ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY3 8XQ
ODS code Y02495
3.8 km
RADBROOK GREEN SURGERY
BANK FARM ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY3 6DU
ODS code M82016
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 1.9 miles
Gains Park Way Shelter
BCS · Bicton Heath
- 2.3 miles
Wenlock Edge House
BCT · Gains Park
- 4.0 miles
Bus Station Timetable
BCT · Shrewsbury
- 4.1 miles
Shrewsbury Rail Station
RLY · Shrewsbury
- 4.9 miles
Baptist Church
BCT · Monkmoor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 026D, 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
22,797 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. The Fitzroy Academy is the nearest published school at 659 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
45 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 27 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.