Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Options Higford is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
GL11 6YD
Shifnal Rural · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Shifnal Rural
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- GL11
- Postcode sector
- GL11 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- GL11 6YD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- GL
- Postcode district
- GL11
- Postcode sector
- GL11 6
- Latitude
- 52.590915
- Longitude
- -2.376367
- British National Grid easting
- 374,600
- British National Grid northing
- 299,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Shifnal Rural · E05016068
- Parish or community
- E04011366
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00146922
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 034D · E01028847
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 034 · E02006013
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 GL11
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.6 km
Options Higford
Other independent special school
- 2.9 km
Beckbury Church of England Primary School and Nursery
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- 3.9 km
Worfield Endowed Church Of England Primary School
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Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- GL11 6 residents
- 3,852
Age bands in GL11 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.4%
572 residents
334 residents
713 residents
1,245 residents
1,083 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.
Nearby transport
- 3.6 miles
Halesfield 11
BCT · Halesfield
- 3.6 miles
Shakespeare Way
BCT · Sutton Hill
- 3.6 miles
Halesfield 11
BCT · Halesfield
- 3.6 miles
Sandcroft
BCT · Sutton Hill
- 3.6 miles
Shakespeare Way
BCT · Sutton Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 034D, 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
11,967 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.