SY9 postcode district: Bishop's Castle and around

SY9 is a postcode district mostly in England, with 137 postcodes in use in 1 sector. It has postcodes in Bishop's Castle and Craven Arms. It is split between 2 councils: Shropshire (136 postcodes) and Powys (1). It crosses a national border: 136 are in England and 1 in Wales.

Postcodes in use
137
Sectors
1
Councils
2 councils
Places
2 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in SY9, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in SY9, by flood risk Of the 136 postcodes in SY9 in England that ONS places, 6 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at low risk at worst and 126 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. The other 1 are in Wales or Scotland, which the Environment Agency's list does not cover. Places named: Bishop's Castle. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. A488A489A490 SY9 5JP: not covered by the flood listSY9 5AA: not on the flood risk listSY9 5AB: not on the flood risk listSY9 5AD: not on the flood risk listSY9 5AF: not on the flood risk listSY9 5AG: not on the flood risk listSY9 5AH: not on the flood risk listSY9 5AJ: not on the flood risk listSY9 5AL: not on the flood risk listSY9 5AP: not on the flood risk listSY9 5AQ: not on the flood risk listSY9 5AS: not on the flood risk listSY9 5AU: not on the flood risk listSY9 5AW: not on the flood risk listSY9 5AX: not on the flood risk listSY9 5AY: not on the flood risk listSY9 5BA: not on the flood risk listSY9 5BB: not on the flood risk listSY9 5BF: not on the flood risk listSY9 5BG: not on the flood risk listSY9 5BH: not on the flood risk listSY9 5BU: not on the flood risk listSY9 5BW: not on the flood risk listSY9 5BX: not on the flood risk listSY9 5BZ: not on the flood risk listSY9 5DA: not on the flood risk listSY9 5DH: not on the flood risk listSY9 5DL: not on the flood risk listSY9 5DP: not on the flood risk listSY9 5DR: not on the flood risk listSY9 5DS: not on the flood risk listSY9 5DU: not on the flood risk listSY9 5DW: not on the flood risk listSY9 5DX: not on the flood risk listSY9 5DY: not on the flood risk listSY9 5DZ: not on the flood risk listSY9 5EA: not on the flood risk listSY9 5ED: not on the flood risk listSY9 5EE: not on the flood risk listSY9 5EF: not on the flood risk listSY9 5EJ: not on the flood risk listSY9 5EL: not on the flood risk listSY9 5EN: not on the flood risk listSY9 5EP: not on the flood risk listSY9 5EQ: not on the flood risk listSY9 5ER: not on the flood risk listSY9 5ET: not on the flood risk listSY9 5EU: not on the flood risk listSY9 5EX: not on the flood risk listSY9 5EY: not on the flood risk listSY9 5EZ: not on the flood risk listSY9 5FD: not on the flood risk listSY9 5FE: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HA: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HB: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HD: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HG: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HH: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HJ: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HL: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HN: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HP: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HQ: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HR: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HS: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HT: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HU: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HW: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HX: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HY: not on the flood risk listSY9 5HZ: not on the flood risk listSY9 5JG: not on the flood risk listSY9 5JH: not on the flood risk listSY9 5JJ: not on the flood risk listSY9 5JL: not on the flood risk listSY9 5JQ: not on the flood risk listSY9 5JR: not on the flood risk listSY9 5JS: not on the flood risk listSY9 5JT: not on the flood risk listSY9 5JU: not on the flood risk listSY9 5JW: not on the flood risk listSY9 5LA: not on the flood risk listSY9 5LB: not on the flood risk listSY9 5LD: not on the flood risk listSY9 5LE: not on the flood risk listSY9 5LF: not on the flood risk listSY9 5LG: not on the flood risk listSY9 5LH: not on the flood risk listSY9 5LJ: not on the flood risk listSY9 5LL: not on the flood risk listSY9 5LW: not on the flood risk listSY9 5LX: not on the flood risk listSY9 5LZ: not on the flood risk listSY9 5NA: not on the flood risk listSY9 5NB: not on the flood risk listSY9 5PA: not on the flood risk listSY9 5PB: not on the flood risk listSY9 5PF: not on the flood risk listSY9 5WE: not on the flood risk listSY9 5DT: low flood risk at worstSY9 5EB: low flood risk at worstSY9 5LN: low flood risk at worstSY9 5LU: low flood risk at worstSY9 5EG: high flood riskSY9 5EH: high flood riskSY9 5GB: high flood riskSY9 5JX: high flood riskSY9 5JY: high flood riskSY9 5LQ: high flood risk Bishop's Castle Map of every postcode in SY9, by flood risk Of the 136 postcodes in SY9 in England that ONS places, 6 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at low risk at worst and 126 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. The other 1 are in Wales or Scotland, which the Environment Agency's list does not cover. Places named: Bishop's Castle. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 5 km. A489 Bishop's Castle
  • A home or business at high risk: 6
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 4
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 126
  • In Wales or Scotland: not covered by the Environment Agency: 1

Of the 136 postcodes in SY9 in England that ONS places, 6 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at low risk at worst and 126 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. The other 1 are in Wales or Scotland, which the Environment Agency's list does not cover.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.4991, longitude -2.9905. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

SY9 5JY5 at high riskSY9 5JX4 at high riskSY9 5EG3 at high riskSY9 5LQ2 at high riskSY9 5GB2 at high riskSY9 5EH1 at high risk

What broadband can you get in SY9?

Ofcom reports on 135 of the 137 postcodes in SY9. At 26 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 12 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit26 of 135
Postcodes where every home can get superfast61 of 135
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband12 of 135

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

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Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is SY9 at risk of flooding?

10 of the 136 postcodes in SY9 that are in England have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 20 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 10 of 136 postcodes High: 17Medium: 3Low: 18

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in SY9?

Homes in SY9 sold for a typical £259,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 14 sales, down 14.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£259,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£305,000 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 14.9% on the 12 months before
  • Detached 4 sales, too few to price
  • Semi-detached £238,000 5 sales
  • Terraced £276,000 5 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Postcodes in SY9

Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.

SY9 5137 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in SY9

Towns and villages with postcodes in SY9, and how many each has here.

Bishop's Castle postcodes,61Craven Arms postcodes,1

Who covers SY9

How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.

Councils

What council am I in?

Constituencies

  • South Shropshire136
  • Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr1

Police force areas

  • West Mercia136
  • Dyfed-Powys1

Next to SY9

SY8 postcode district SY10 postcode district All SY districts Bishop's Castle postcodes

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after SY9 in the SY area.

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