Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 4 secondary schools. Franche Primary School is the nearest published school at 450 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DY11 5LW
Franche & Habberley North · Wyre Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Kidderminster
- Local authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest
- Postcode district
- DY11
- Postcode sector
- DY11 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DY11 5LW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DY
- Postcode district
- DY11
- Postcode sector
- DY11 5
- Latitude
- 52.399619
- Longitude
- -2.274381
- British National Grid easting
- 381,428
- British National Grid northing
- 277,990
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Wyre Forest · E07000239
- Electoral ward
- Franche & Habberley North · E05010508
- Parish or community
- E04013538
- Westminster constituency
- Wyre Forest · E14001601
- Output area
- E00165466
- Lower layer super output area
- Wyre Forest 002A · E01032441
- Middle layer super output area
- Wyre Forest 002 · E02006768
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 DY11
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 31, Ferndale Crescent, Kidderminster, DY11 5LW | 26 May 2006 | £170,000 |
| 78, Ferndale Crescent, Kidderminster, DY11 5LW | 20 February 2004 | £166,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 4
- 450 m
Franche Primary School
Community school
- 789 m
St Catherine's CofE (VC) Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.1 km
Wyre Forest School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 837
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 327
- Anti social behaviour 115
- Criminal damage and arson 73
- Public order 56
- Vehicle crime 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- DY11 5 residents
- 10,571
3 female, 3 male
Age bands in DY11 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.6%
1,485 residents
826 residents
2,048 residents
2,684 residents
2,815 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DY11 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
WOLVERLEY SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, WOLVERLEY, KIDDERMINSTER, DY11 5TH
ODS code M81608
1.9 km
AYLMER LODGE COOKLEY PARTNERSHIP
HUME STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, HUME STREET, KIDDERMINSTER, DY11 6SF
ODS code M81068
1.9 km
NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE SURGERY
HUME STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, HUME STREET, KIDDERMINSTER, DY11 6SF
ODS code M81005
1.9 km
THE CHURCH STREET PRACTICE
CALLOWS LANE, KIDDERMINSTER, DY10 2JG
ODS code M81056
2.0 km
KIDDERMINSTER MEDICAL CENTRE
WATERLOO STREET, KIDDERMINSTER, DY10 2BG
ODS code M81010
2.2 km
STANMORE HOUSE SURGERY
LINDEN AVENUE, KIDDERMINSTER, DY10 3AA
ODS code M81015
3.1 km
BEWDLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
DOG LANE, BEWDLEY, DY12 2EF
ODS code M81057
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Corbett Road
BCT · Ferndale
- 0.1 miles
Habberley Lane
BCT · Franche
- 0.2 miles
Habberley Lane
BCT · Franche
- 0.2 miles
Habberley Lane
BCT · Franche
- 0.2 miles
Supermarket
BCT · Franche
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wyre Forest 002A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,679 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 0
- 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
837 published events cover 12 months, averaging 69.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 327 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.