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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.

Every postcode in SY9, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in SY9, by gigabit broadband Of the 137 postcodes in SY9 that ONS places, 77 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 32 have some that can, 26 can all get it and 2 have no Ofcom figure. One group of postcodes without gigabit is outlined: 11 postcodes without gigabit. 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 5JU: no Ofcom figureSY9 5WE: no Ofcom figureSY9 5AP: gigabit for allSY9 5AS: gigabit for allSY9 5AW: gigabit for allSY9 5BH: gigabit for allSY9 5BZ: gigabit for allSY9 5DH: gigabit for allSY9 5DL: gigabit for allSY9 5FE: gigabit for allSY9 5HD: gigabit for allSY9 5HJ: gigabit for allSY9 5PB: gigabit for allSY9 5PF: gigabit for allSY9 5AA: some gigabitSY9 5AB: some gigabitSY9 5AD: some gigabitSY9 5AF: some gigabitSY9 5AJ: some gigabitSY9 5AQ: some gigabitSY9 5AU: some gigabitSY9 5BU: some gigabitSY9 5BX: some gigabitSY9 5DA: some gigabitSY9 5DX: some gigabitSY9 5EA: some gigabitSY9 5ER: some gigabitSY9 5EZ: some gigabitSY9 5HB: some gigabitSY9 5HG: some gigabitSY9 5JT: some gigabitSY9 5PA: some gigabitSY9 5BS: some gigabitSY9 5AG: no gigabitSY9 5AX: no gigabitSY9 5AY: no gigabitSY9 5BA: no gigabitSY9 5BG: no gigabitSY9 5DP: no gigabitSY9 5DR: no gigabitSY9 5DS: no gigabitSY9 5DT: no gigabitSY9 5DU: no gigabitSY9 5DW: no gigabitSY9 5DY: no gigabitSY9 5DZ: no gigabitSY9 5EB: no gigabitSY9 5ED: no gigabitSY9 5EE: no gigabitSY9 5EF: no gigabitSY9 5EG: no gigabitSY9 5EH: no gigabitSY9 5EJ: no gigabitSY9 5EL: no gigabitSY9 5EN: no gigabitSY9 5EP: no gigabitSY9 5EQ: no gigabitSY9 5ET: no gigabitSY9 5EU: no gigabitSY9 5EX: no gigabitSY9 5EY: no gigabitSY9 5FD: no gigabitSY9 5GB: no gigabitSY9 5HA: no gigabitSY9 5HH: no gigabitSY9 5HL: no gigabitSY9 5HN: no gigabitSY9 5HP: no gigabitSY9 5HQ: no gigabitSY9 5HR: no gigabitSY9 5HS: no gigabitSY9 5HT: no gigabitSY9 5HU: no gigabitSY9 5HW: no gigabitSY9 5HX: no gigabitSY9 5HY: no gigabitSY9 5HZ: no gigabitSY9 5JG: no gigabitSY9 5JH: no gigabitSY9 5JJ: no gigabitSY9 5JL: no gigabitSY9 5JP: no gigabitSY9 5JQ: no gigabitSY9 5JR: no gigabitSY9 5JS: no gigabitSY9 5JW: no gigabitSY9 5JX: no gigabitSY9 5JY: no gigabitSY9 5LA: no gigabitSY9 5LB: no gigabitSY9 5LD: no gigabitSY9 5LE: no gigabitSY9 5LF: no gigabitSY9 5LG: no gigabitSY9 5LH: no gigabitSY9 5LJ: no gigabitSY9 5LL: no gigabitSY9 5LN: no gigabitSY9 5LQ: no gigabitSY9 5LU: no gigabitSY9 5LW: no gigabitSY9 5LX: no gigabitSY9 5LZ: no gigabitSY9 5NA: no gigabitSY9 5NB: no gigabitSY9 5DE: no gigabitSY9 5AZ: no gigabitSY9 5BD: no gigabitSY9 5DB: no gigabit Bishop's Castle 11 postcodes without gigabit, outlined: this goes to SY9 5AZ, the one nearest the middle of them11 postcodes without gigabit Map of every postcode in SY9, by gigabit broadband Of the 137 postcodes in SY9 that ONS places, 77 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 32 have some that can, 26 can all get it and 2 have no Ofcom figure. One group of postcodes without gigabit is outlined: 11 postcodes without gigabit. Places named: Bishop's Castle. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 5 km. Bishop's Castle 11 postcodes without gigabit, outlined: this goes to SY9 5AZ, the one nearest the middle of them11 postcodes without gigabit
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 77
  • Some can get gigabit: 32
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 26
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 2
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 137 postcodes in SY9 that ONS places, 77 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 32 have some that can, 26 can all get it and 2 have no Ofcom figure.

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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 350 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and 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

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.

Postcodes without gigabit

77 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

SY9 5AGSY9 5AXSY9 5AYSY9 5AZSY9 5BASY9 5BDSY9 5BGSY9 5DBSY9 5DESY9 5DPSY9 5DRSY9 5DS

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

  • 11 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. SY9 5AZ, is the one nearest the middle of them.

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.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

What do homes sell for in SY9?

Homes in SY9 sold for a typical £276,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 13 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £275,000 from 30 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

£276,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£275,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached 2 sales, too few to price
  • Semi-detached £238,000 5 sales
  • Terraced £293,000 6 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 October 2026.

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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Where the facts on this page come from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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