Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 3 secondary schools. Fortitude School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B49 5NH
Salford Priors & Alcester Rural · Stratford-on-Avon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Postcode district
- B49
- Postcode sector
- B49 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B49 5NH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B49
- Postcode sector
- B49 5
- Latitude
- 52.204664
- Longitude
- -1.890844
- British National Grid easting
- 407,556
- British National Grid northing
- 256,275
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Stratford-on-Avon · E07000221
- Electoral ward
- Salford Priors & Alcester Rural · E05015120
- Parish or community
- E04009810
- Westminster constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon · E14001526
- Output area
- E00158970
- Lower layer super output area
- Stratford-on-Avon 006A · E01031183
- Middle layer super output area
- Stratford-on-Avon 006 · E02006509
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 B49
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 3
- 1.5 km
Fortitude School
Other independent special school
- 1.9 km
Alcester Grammar School
Academy converter
- 2.2 km
St Benedict's Catholic High School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 75
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 35
- Other theft 10
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Vehicle crime 8
- Shoplifting 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B49 5 residents
- 4,105
1 female, 1 male
Age bands in B49 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.3%
514 residents
342 residents
768 residents
1,327 residents
1,285 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B49 5 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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
ALCESTER HEALTH CENTRE
FIELDS PARK DRIVE, ALCESTER, B49 6QR
ODS code M84049
2.5 km
THE ARROW SURGERY
FIELDS PARK DRIVE, ALCESTER, B49 6QR
ODS code M84060
2.5 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
- 0.2 miles
Ragley Hall
BCT · Arrow
- 0.2 miles
Ragley Hall
BCT · Arrow
- 0.3 miles
Worcester Road
BCT · Arrow
- 0.3 miles
Worcester Road
BCT · Arrow
- 0.9 miles
Roman Way
BCT · Alcester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Stratford-on-Avon 006A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,682 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
Recorded crime
75 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 35 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.