HR2 9JB

Golden Valley North · Herefordshire, County of · England

Updated September 2026

Compare this postcode

Location overview

Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map

Ward: Golden Valley North
Local authority: Herefordshire, County of
Constituency: Hereford and South Herefordshire
Postcode district: HR2
Postcode sector: HR2 9

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
HR2 9JT	96 m
HR2 9LL	268 m
HR2 9FN	311 m
HR2 9JU	424 m
HR2 9JX	455 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: HR2 9JB
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1995
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: HR
Postcode district: HR2
Postcode sector: HR2 9
Latitude: 52.067574
Longitude: -2.898811
British National Grid easting: 338,485
British National Grid northing: 241,403

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: West Midlands · E12000005
Local authority district: Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
Electoral ward: Golden Valley North · E05009454
Parish or community: E04000856
Westminster constituency: Hereford and South Herefordshire · E14001281
Output area: E00070777
Lower layer super output area: Herefordshire 020B · E01014019
Middle layer super output area: Herefordshire 020 · E02002924

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

View all nearby schools

Open schools: 3
Primary: 3
Secondary: 0

Staunton-on-Wye Endowed Primary School

Voluntary aided school
4.2 km
Madley Primary School

Community school
4.3 km
Peterchurch Primary School

Community school
4.8 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

View all nearby crime records

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

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 6
Other theft 1
Anti social behaviour 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 21
Postcode households: 11
Residents per household: 1.9
HR2 9 residents: 6,363

Age bands in HR2 9

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 16.2%
Age 15 to 24: 9.4%
Age 25 to 44: 19.3%
Age 45 to 64: 28.5%
Age 65 and over: 26.6%

This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HR2 9 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+: 0%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 0%
Gigabit-capable: 0%

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.

Nearby transport

Preston-on-Wye

BCT · Preston on Wye
0.1 miles
Preston-on-Wye

BCT · Preston on Wye
0.1 miles
The Steppes

BCT · Tyberton
1.1 miles
The Steppes

BCT · Tyberton
1.1 miles
Old School

BCT · Byford
1.3 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 020B, 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

10,893 of 33,755

Income: 5 of 10
Employment: 5 of 10
Education and skills: 4 of 10
Health and disability: 7 of 10
Crime: 8 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

3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Staunton-on-Wye Endowed Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.6 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.