Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Bewdley Primary School is the nearest published school at 742 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DY12 2AB
Bewdley & Rock · Wyre Forest · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bewdley & Rock
- Local authority
- Wyre Forest
- Constituency
- Wyre Forest
- Postcode district
- DY12
- Postcode sector
- DY12 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DY12 2AB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 September 2009
- Postcode area
- DY
- Postcode district
- DY12
- Postcode sector
- DY12 2
- Latitude
- 52.375485
- Longitude
- -2.315655
- British National Grid easting
- 378,608
- British National Grid northing
- 275,317
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Wyre Forest · E07000239
- Electoral ward
- Bewdley & Rock · E05010504
- Parish or community
- E04010446
- Westminster constituency
- Wyre Forest · E14001601
- Output area
- E00165385
- Lower layer super output area
- Wyre Forest 011B · E01032428
- Middle layer super output area
- Wyre Forest 011 · E02006777
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 DY12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 742 m
Bewdley Primary School
Community school
- 790 m
The Bewdley School
Foundation school
- 1.1 km
St Anne's CofE VC Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 485
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 249
- Anti social behaviour 57
- Criminal damage and arson 32
- Public order 30
- Other theft 27
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DY12 2 residents
- 5,881
Age bands in DY12 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 34.9%
655 residents
482 residents
932 residents
1,789 residents
2,067 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
BEWDLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
DOG LANE, BEWDLEY, DY12 2EF
ODS code M81057
144 m
AYLMER LODGE COOKLEY PARTNERSHIP
HUME STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, HUME STREET, KIDDERMINSTER, DY11 6SF
ODS code M81068
3.8 km
NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSE SURGERY
HUME STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, HUME STREET, KIDDERMINSTER, DY11 6SF
ODS code M81005
3.8 km
THE CHURCH STREET PRACTICE
CALLOWS LANE, KIDDERMINSTER, DY10 2JG
ODS code M81056
4.7 km
KIDDERMINSTER MEDICAL CENTRE
WATERLOO STREET, KIDDERMINSTER, DY10 2BG
ODS code M81010
4.9 km
STOURPORT MEDICAL CENTRE
DUNLEY ROAD, STOURPORT-ON-SEVERN, DY13 0AA
ODS code M81040
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Load Street
BCT · Bewdley
- 0.1 miles
Load Street
BCT · Bewdley
- 0.1 miles
Dowles Road
BCT · Bewdley
- 0.2 miles
The Bewdley Inn
BCT · Bewdley
- 0.3 miles
Richmond Road
BCT · Bark Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wyre Forest 011B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,130 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
485 published events cover 12 months, averaging 40.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 249 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.