Property market
The five-year median is £425,000 from 24 recorded sales in SY8 4DW. 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 4DW
Bircher · Herefordshire, County of · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ludlow
- Ward
- Bircher
- 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 4DW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2022
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY8
- Postcode sector
- SY8 4
- Latitude
- 52.302768
- Longitude
- -2.740555
- British National Grid easting
- 349,600
- British National Grid northing
- 267,440
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
- Electoral ward
- Bircher · E05009443
- Parish or community
- E04000847
- Westminster constituency
- North Herefordshire · E14001395
- Output area
- E00070657
- Lower layer super output area
- Herefordshire 001A · E01013998
- 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
24 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 33, Captains Meadow, Orleton, Ludlow, SY8 4DW | 15 November 2024 | £495,000 |
| 27, Captains Meadow, Orleton, Ludlow, SY8 4DW | 17 September 2024 | £614,950 |
| 37, Captains Meadow, Orleton, Ludlow, SY8 4DW | 12 July 2024 | £435,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 95 m
Orleton CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.0 km
Moor Park School
Other independent school
- 4.3 km
Luston Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 33
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 16
- Burglary 7
- Other theft 4
- Shoplifting 2
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY8 4 residents
- 3,443
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
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 79.5%
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
- 0.1 miles
Hallets Well
BCT · Orleton
- 0.1 miles
Hallets Well
BCT · Orleton
- 0.3 miles
Boot Inn
BCT · Orleton
- 0.3 miles
Boot Inn
BCT · Orleton
- 0.4 miles
Millbrook Way
BCT · Orleton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 001A, 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
20,481 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Orleton CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 95 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
33 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 16 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.