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, and which are new since 2020

Map of every postcode in SY9, by new since 2020 Of the 137 postcodes in SY9 that ONS places, 2 are new since 2020 and 135 were in use before 2020. 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 5AA: before 2020SY9 5AB: before 2020SY9 5AD: before 2020SY9 5AF: before 2020SY9 5AG: before 2020SY9 5AH: before 2020SY9 5AJ: before 2020SY9 5AL: before 2020SY9 5AP: before 2020SY9 5AQ: before 2020SY9 5AS: before 2020SY9 5AU: before 2020SY9 5AW: before 2020SY9 5AX: before 2020SY9 5AY: before 2020SY9 5BA: before 2020SY9 5BB: before 2020SY9 5BG: before 2020SY9 5BH: before 2020SY9 5BU: before 2020SY9 5BW: before 2020SY9 5BX: before 2020SY9 5BZ: before 2020SY9 5DA: before 2020SY9 5DH: before 2020SY9 5DL: before 2020SY9 5DP: before 2020SY9 5DR: before 2020SY9 5DS: before 2020SY9 5DT: before 2020SY9 5DU: before 2020SY9 5DW: before 2020SY9 5DX: before 2020SY9 5DY: before 2020SY9 5DZ: before 2020SY9 5EA: before 2020SY9 5EB: before 2020SY9 5ED: before 2020SY9 5EE: before 2020SY9 5EF: before 2020SY9 5EG: before 2020SY9 5EH: before 2020SY9 5EJ: before 2020SY9 5EL: before 2020SY9 5EN: before 2020SY9 5EP: before 2020SY9 5EQ: before 2020SY9 5ER: before 2020SY9 5ET: before 2020SY9 5EU: before 2020SY9 5EX: before 2020SY9 5EY: before 2020SY9 5EZ: before 2020SY9 5FD: before 2020SY9 5FE: before 2020SY9 5GB: before 2020SY9 5HA: before 2020SY9 5HB: before 2020SY9 5HD: before 2020SY9 5HG: before 2020SY9 5HH: before 2020SY9 5HJ: before 2020SY9 5HL: before 2020SY9 5HN: before 2020SY9 5HP: before 2020SY9 5HQ: before 2020SY9 5HR: before 2020SY9 5HS: before 2020SY9 5HT: before 2020SY9 5HU: before 2020SY9 5HW: before 2020SY9 5HX: before 2020SY9 5HY: before 2020SY9 5HZ: before 2020SY9 5JG: before 2020SY9 5JH: before 2020SY9 5JJ: before 2020SY9 5JL: before 2020SY9 5JP: before 2020SY9 5JQ: before 2020SY9 5JR: before 2020SY9 5JS: before 2020SY9 5JT: before 2020SY9 5JU: before 2020SY9 5JW: before 2020SY9 5JX: before 2020SY9 5JY: before 2020SY9 5LA: before 2020SY9 5LB: before 2020SY9 5LD: before 2020SY9 5LE: before 2020SY9 5LF: before 2020SY9 5LG: before 2020SY9 5LH: before 2020SY9 5LJ: before 2020SY9 5LL: before 2020SY9 5LN: before 2020SY9 5LQ: before 2020SY9 5LU: before 2020SY9 5LW: before 2020SY9 5LX: before 2020SY9 5LZ: before 2020SY9 5NA: before 2020SY9 5NB: before 2020SY9 5PA: before 2020SY9 5PB: before 2020SY9 5WE: before 2020SY9 5PF: new since 2020SY9 5FF: new since 2020 Bishop's Castle Map of every postcode in SY9, by new since 2020 Of the 137 postcodes in SY9 that ONS places, 2 are new since 2020 and 135 were in use before 2020. 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
  • New since 2020: 2
  • In use before 2020: 135

Of the 137 postcodes in SY9 that ONS places, 2 are new since 2020 and 135 were in use before 2020.

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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. 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; when each came into use: the same directory; 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

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.

UK postcode format explained

Places in SY9

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

Who covers SY9

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

Councils

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Constituencies

  • South Shropshire136
  • Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr1

Police force areas

  • West Mercia136
  • Dyfed-Powys1

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