Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 5 secondary schools. Holmer CofE Academy is the nearest published school at 532 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HR4 9SS
Widemarsh · Herefordshire, County of · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Widemarsh
- Local authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire
- Postcode district
- HR4
- Postcode sector
- HR4 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HR4 9SS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 May 2023
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR4
- Postcode sector
- HR4 9
- Latitude
- 52.073168
- Longitude
- -2.720774
- British National Grid easting
- 350,695
- British National Grid northing
- 241,889
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
- Electoral ward
- Widemarsh · E05009489
- Parish or community
- E04000921
- Westminster constituency
- Hereford and South Herefordshire · E14001281
- Output area
- E00071126
- Lower layer super output area
- Herefordshire 010B · E01014084
- Middle layer super output area
- Herefordshire 010 · E02002914
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 HR4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 5
- 532 m
Holmer CofE Academy
Academy converter
- 881 m
The Brookfield School
Academy special converter
- 1.0 km
St Francis Xavier's Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,057
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 402
- Shoplifting 162
- Anti social behaviour 131
- Other theft 85
- Criminal damage and arson 73
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HR4 9 residents
- 7,848
Age bands in HR4 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.8%
1,246 residents
777 residents
2,458 residents
2,154 residents
1,538 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
HEREFORD MEDICAL GROUP
STATION MEDICAL CENTRE, STATION APPROACH, HEREFORD, HR1 1BB
ODS code M81026
1.4 km
CANTILUPE SURGERY
49-51 ST. OWEN STREET, HEREFORD, HR1 2JB
ODS code M81032
2.1 km
WARGRAVE HOUSE SURGERY
WARGRAVE HOUSE, 23 ST. OWEN STREET, HEREFORD, HR1 2JB
ODS code M81066
2.1 km
BELMONT MEDICAL CENTRE
EASTHOLME AVENUE, BELMONT, HEREFORD, HR2 7XT
ODS code M81093
3.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Leisure Centre
BCT · Hereford
- 0.2 miles
Cleeve Orchard
BCT · Hereford
- 0.2 miles
Cleeve Orchard
BCT · Holmer
- 0.2 miles
Leisure Centre
BCT · Hereford
- 0.2 miles
Starting Gate
BCT · Holmer
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 010B, 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
15,213 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
1,057 published events cover 12 months, averaging 88.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 402 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.