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 5PL
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 5PL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B49
- Postcode sector
- B49 5
- Latitude
- 52.202185
- Longitude
- -1.884354
- British National Grid easting
- 408,000
- British National Grid northing
- 256,000
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
- 2.1 km
St Benedict's Catholic High School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 94
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 48
- Anti social behaviour 12
- Other theft 10
- Vehicle crime 9
- Criminal damage and arson 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B49 5 residents
- 4,105
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
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
ALCESTER HEALTH CENTRE
FIELDS PARK DRIVE, ALCESTER, B49 6QR
ODS code M84049
2.4 km
THE ARROW SURGERY
FIELDS PARK DRIVE, ALCESTER, B49 6QR
ODS code M84060
2.4 km
BIDFORD HEALTH CENTRE
STRATFORD ROAD, BIDFORD-ON-AVON, ALCESTER, B50 4LX
ODS code M84018
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ragley Hall
BCT · Arrow
- 0.1 miles
Ragley Hall
BCT · Arrow
- 0.3 miles
Worcester Road
BCT · Arrow
- 0.4 miles
Worcester Road
BCT · Arrow
- 0.8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
94 published events cover 12 months, averaging 7.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 48 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.