Property market
The five-year median is £667,500 from 4 recorded sales in SY7 8HQ. 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.
SY7 8HQ
Craven Arms · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Craven Arms
- Ward
- Craven Arms
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY7
- Postcode sector
- SY7 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY7 8HQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY7
- Postcode sector
- SY7 8
- Latitude
- 52.458374
- Longitude
- -2.887950
- British National Grid easting
- 339,762
- British National Grid northing
- 284,861
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Craven Arms · E05016036
- Parish or community
- E04011287
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00147770
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 037D · E01029016
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 037 · E02006044
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 SY7
Property
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Charles Cottage, Round Oak, Craven Arms, SY7 8HQ | 4 March 2026 | £413,750 |
| 1, Round Oak, Craven Arms, SY7 8HQ | 18 September 2025 | £415,000 |
| Palace Barn, Round Oak, Craven Arms, SY7 8HQ | 5 July 2024 | £1,010,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.5 km
Wistanstow CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.3 km
Stokesay Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 4.8 km
Lydbury North Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- SY7 8 residents
- 2,984
11 female, 7 male
Age bands in SY7 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 12.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 38.2%
361 residents
200 residents
398 residents
970 residents
1,194 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY7 8 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+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 50%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 66.7%
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
1
within 5 km
CRAVEN ARMS SURGERY
20 SHREWSBURY ROAD, CRAVEN ARMS, SY7 9PY
ODS code M82046
4.0 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 2.4 miles
Craven Arms Rail Station
RLY · Craven Arms
- 2.5 miles
Broome Rail Station
RLY · Broome
- 4.7 miles
Hopton Heath Rail Station
RLY · Hopton Heath
- 6.5 miles
The Criftins
BCT · Leintwardine
- 6.5 miles
Church Stretton Rail Station
RLY · Church Stretton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 037D, 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
14,005 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 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
Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Wistanstow CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.