Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 1 secondary schools. Kington Primary School is the nearest published school at 257 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HR5 3AU
Kington · Herefordshire, County of · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Kington
- Ward
- Kington
- Local authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire
- Postcode district
- HR5
- Postcode sector
- HR5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HR5 3AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2018
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR5
- Postcode sector
- HR5 3
- Latitude
- 52.203882
- Longitude
- -3.028953
- British National Grid easting
- 329,779
- British National Grid northing
- 256,682
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
- Electoral ward
- Kington · E05009464
- Parish or community
- E04000790
- Westminster constituency
- North Herefordshire · E14001395
- Output area
- E00070850
- Lower layer super output area
- Herefordshire 006D · E01014034
- Middle layer super output area
- Herefordshire 006 · E02002910
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 HR5
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, High Street, Kington, HR5 3AU | 16 June 2017 | £127,550 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 2
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 1
- 257 m
Kington Primary School
Community school
- 731 m
Lady Hawkins' School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 161
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 82
- Criminal damage and arson 21
- Anti social behaviour 15
- Public order 12
- Other theft 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HR5 3 residents
- 4,788
Age bands in HR5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.8%
632 residents
396 residents
836 residents
1,347 residents
1,426 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
KINGTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
EARDISLEY ROAD, KINGTON, HR5 3EA
ODS code M81054
703 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Library
BCT · Kington
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · Kington
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · Kington
- 0.1 miles
High Street
BCT · Kington
- 0.1 miles
High Street
BCT · Kington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 006D, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,152 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
161 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 82 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.