Property market
The five-year median is £892,500 from 2 recorded sales in SY8 4BE. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Herefordshire is £289,715 in June 2026, up 4.8% year on year.
SY8 4BE
Leominster North & Rural · Herefordshire, County of · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ludlow
- Local authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire
- Postcode district
- SY8
- Postcode sector
- SY8 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY8 4BE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY8
- Postcode sector
- SY8 4
- Latitude
- 52.277387
- Longitude
- -2.674746
- British National Grid easting
- 354,061
- British National Grid northing
- 264,573
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
- Electoral ward
- Leominster North & Rural · E05009469
- Parish or community
- E04000830
- Westminster constituency
- North Herefordshire · E14001395
- Output area
- E00071194
- Lower layer super output area
- Herefordshire 001D · E01014096
- Middle layer super output area
- Herefordshire 001 · E02002905
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 SY8
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Granary, Middleton On The Hill, Ludlow, SY8 4BE | 29 April 2022 | £660,000 |
| School House, Middleton On The Hill, Ludlow, SY8 4BE | 16 December 2021 | £1,125,000 |
| 1, Church Gate Cottages, Middleton On The Hill, Ludlow, SY8 4BE | 9 February 2018 | £154,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 3.4 km
Kimbolton St James CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 4.2 km
St Michael Abbey School
Other independent school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- SY8 4 residents
- 3,443
8 female, 12 male
Age bands in SY8 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.3%
379 residents
253 residents
503 residents
1,071 residents
1,206 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY8 4 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+
- 91.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 91.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 91.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 91.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 91.7%
- 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
- 0.3 miles
Five Ashes
BCT · Middleton on the Hill
- 0.3 miles
Five Ashes
BCT · Middleton on the Hill
- 1.3 miles
Pole
BCT · Leysters Pole
- 1.5 miles
Hundred Turn
BCT · Ashton
- 1.5 miles
Hundred Turn
BCT · Ashton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 001D, 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
15,671 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
- 1
- 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
2 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Kimbolton St James CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.