HR2 8BF

Wormside · Herefordshire, County of · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Wormside
Local authority: Herefordshire, County of
Constituency: Hereford and South Herefordshire
Postcode district: HR2
Postcode sector: HR2 8

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
HR2 9DA	960 m
HR2 9DN	1.3 km
HR2 8DP	1.3 km
HR2 9DZ	1.3 km
HR2 9DL	1.3 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: HR2 8BF
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 July 1995
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: HR
Postcode district: HR2
Postcode sector: HR2 8
Latitude: 51.977522
Longitude: -2.796141
British National Grid easting: 345,413
British National Grid northing: 231,305

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: West Midlands · E12000005
Local authority district: Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
Electoral ward: Wormside · E05009490
Parish or community: E04012987
Westminster constituency: Hereford and South Herefordshire · E14001281
Output area: E00187157
Lower layer super output area: Herefordshire 021F · E01014099
Middle layer super output area: Herefordshire 021 · E02002925

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 HR2

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 2
Primary: 1
Secondary: 0

The Steiner Academy Hereford

Academy sponsor led
2.7 km
Much Birch CofE Primary School

Voluntary controlled school
4.7 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 8
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 6
Burglary 1
Other theft 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 7
Postcode households: 2
Residents per household: 3.5
HR2 8 residents: 4,559

Age bands in HR2 8

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 13.8%
Age 15 to 24: 8.3%
Age 25 to 44: 17.2%
Age 45 to 64: 32%
Age 65 and over: 28.8%

This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HR2 8 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+: 50%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 50%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 50%
Gigabit-capable: 50%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 0%
Next Generation Access: 50%
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.

Nearby transport

The Bound House

BCT · Didley
0.6 miles
The Bound House

BCT · Didley
0.6 miles
Crizeley

BCT · Wormbridge
0.6 miles
Crizeley

BCT · Wormbridge
0.6 miles
Stock Farm

BCT · Didley
0.7 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 021F, 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

5 of 10

Overall England rank

14,919 of 33,755

Income: 7 of 10
Employment: 7 of 10
Education and skills: 6 of 10
Health and disability: 7 of 10
Crime: 10 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.

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

Schools

2 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. The Steiner Academy Hereford is the nearest published school at 1.7 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.