Property market
The five-year median is £831,250 from 2 recorded sales in SY8 4DJ. 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.
SY8 4DJ
Ludlow South · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ludlow
- Ward
- Ludlow South
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY8
- Postcode sector
- SY8 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY8 4DJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY8
- Postcode sector
- SY8 4
- Latitude
- 52.331740
- Longitude
- -2.708943
- British National Grid easting
- 351,787
- British National Grid northing
- 270,641
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Ludlow South · E05016046
- Parish or community
- E04011206
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00147666
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 039B · E01028996
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 039 · E02006046
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
29 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Wain House, Ashford Bowdler, Ludlow, SY8 4DJ | 23 September 2022 | £712,500 |
| Grove Barn, Ashford Bowdler, Ludlow, SY8 4DJ | 21 July 2022 | £950,000 |
| Lavender House, Ashford Bowdler, Ludlow, SY8 4DJ | 6 May 2021 | £570,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 690 m
Bishop Hooper Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.2 km
Overton School
Other independent special school
- 1.8 km
Moor Park School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 14
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Public order 3
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Burglary 1
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 41
- Postcode households
- 21
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- SY8 4 residents
- 3,443
22 female, 19 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 1.2% 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+
- 95.5%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 95.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 95.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 95.5%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 63.6%
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
2
within 5 km
LUDLOW - PORTCULLIS
PORTCULLIS LANE, LUDLOW, SY8 1GT
ODS code M82043
4.2 km
STATION DRIVE SURGERY
STATION DRIVE, LUDLOW, SY8 2AB
ODS code M82014
4.3 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
- 1.5 miles
Castle Inn
BCT · Richards Castle
- 1.6 miles
Castle Inn
BCT · Richards Castle
- 1.7 miles
Wyson Avenue
BCT · Wyson
- 1.7 miles
Wyson Avenue
BCT · Wyson
- 1.7 miles
Manor Corner
BCT · Brimfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 039B, 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
13,671 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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
- 2
- 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
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Bishop Hooper Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 690 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
14 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.