Property market
The five-year median is £190,000 from 3 recorded sales in SY9 5FF. 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.
SY9 5FF
Bishop's Castle · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bishops Castle
- Ward
- Bishop's Castle
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY9
- Postcode sector
- SY9 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY9 5FF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY9
- Postcode sector
- SY9 5
- Latitude
- 52.496108
- Longitude
- -3.001469
- British National Grid easting
- 332,107
- British National Grid northing
- 289,159
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Bishop's Castle · E05016018
- Parish or community
- E04011223
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00147639
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 030B · E01028992
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 030 · E02006041
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 SY9
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Kiteswood, Wintles Lane, Bishops Castle, SY9 5FF | 1 October 2024 | £200,000 |
| Wintles End Cottage, Wintles Lane, Bishops Castle, SY9 5FF | 24 April 2024 | £190,000 |
| Withywindle, Wintles Lane, Bishops Castle, SY9 5FF | 19 April 2024 | £190,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 404 m
Bishops Castle Primary School
Academy converter
- 921 m
The Community College, Bishop's Castle
Foundation school
- 4.3 km
Lydbury North Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 122
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 53
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Other theft 12
- Anti social behaviour 11
- Burglary 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY9 5 residents
- 2,821
Age bands in SY9 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 32.2%
390 residents
214 residents
486 residents
880 residents
937 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
- 0%
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
BISHOPS CASTLE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SCHOOL HOUSE LANE, BISHOPS CASTLE, SY9 5ER
ODS code M82033
471 m
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
- 3.9 miles
Post Office
BCT · Churchstoke
- 4.3 miles
Old School House
BCT · Churchstoke
- 4.3 miles
Old School House
BCT · Churchstoke
- 5.5 miles
Meadowcroft Cafe
BCT · Pentrehyling
- 7.1 miles
Broome Rail Station
RLY · Broome
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 030B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,614 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Bishops Castle Primary School is the nearest published school at 404 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
122 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 53 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.