Property market
The five-year median is £739,975 from 4 recorded sales in WV16 4SW. 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.
WV16 4SW
Brown Clee · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bridgnorth
- Ward
- Brown Clee
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- WV16
- Postcode sector
- WV16 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV16 4SW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV16
- Postcode sector
- WV16 4
- Latitude
- 52.563537
- Longitude
- -2.430435
- British National Grid easting
- 370,919
- British National Grid northing
- 296,275
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Brown Clee · E05016024
- Parish or community
- E04011209
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00146936
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 029E · E01028850
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 029 · E02006010
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 WV16
Property
40 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 125, Astley Abbotts, Bridgnorth, WV16 4SW | 5 April 2024 | £8,000 |
| Home Farm, Home Farm Farmhouse, Astley Abbots, Bridgnorth, WV16 4SW | 19 January 2024 | £795,000 |
| The Croft, Astley Abbotts, Bridgnorth, WV16 4SW | 11 September 2023 | £699,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.6 km
St Leonard's CofE Primary School
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- 2.8 km
St John's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
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- 3.0 km
Bridgnorth Endowed School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 2
- Other theft 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 76
- Postcode households
- 32
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- WV16 4 residents
- 6,635
40 female, 36 male
Age bands in WV16 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.2%
773 residents
557 residents
1,257 residents
2,041 residents
2,098 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WV16 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+
- 93.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 43.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 43.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 43.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 46.7%
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
BRIDGNORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
NORTHGATE, BRIDGNORTH, WV16 4EN
ODS code M82004
2.9 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
- 3.9 miles
China Museum
BCT · Coalport
- 3.9 miles
China Museum
BCT · Coalport
- 4.4 miles
Shakespeare Way
BCT · Sutton Hill
- 4.4 miles
Southfield
BCT · Sutton Hill
- 4.4 miles
Shakespeare Way
BCT · Sutton Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 029E, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,979 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 1
- 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
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 2 secondary schools. St Leonard's CofE 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
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.