Property market
The five-year median is £312,500 from 4 recorded sales in SY8 4LQ. 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 4LQ
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 4LQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY8
- Postcode sector
- SY8 4
- Latitude
- 52.322219
- Longitude
- -2.667474
- British National Grid easting
- 354,603
- British National Grid northing
- 269,555
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
- E04000808
- Westminster constituency
- North Herefordshire · E14001395
- Output area
- E00071191
- 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
39 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| March Cottage, Middleton, Ludlow, SY8 4LQ | 20 October 2025 | £365,000 |
| Crease Cottage, Middleton, Ludlow, SY8 4LQ | 23 June 2025 | £260,000 |
| The Old Cider Mill, Middleton, Ludlow, SY8 4LQ | 9 August 2023 | £850,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.6 km
Bishop Hooper Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 4.1 km
Overton School
Other independent special school
- 4.8 km
Moor Park School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Public order 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Drugs 1
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 54
- Postcode households
- 25
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- SY8 4 residents
- 3,443
23 female, 31 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 1.6% 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 96.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 96.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 96.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 59.3%
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
- 0.9 miles
Lynch Lane
BCT · Little Hereford
- 0.9 miles
Lynch Lane
BCT · Little Hereford
- 0.9 miles
Village Hall
BCT · Little Hereford
- 1.6 miles
Manor Corner
BCT · Brimfield
- 1.6 miles
Manor Corner
BCT · Brimfield
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
- 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 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Bishop Hooper Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
13 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Public order with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.