Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Lady Hawkins' School is the nearest published school at 2.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HR5 3EX
Kington · Herefordshire, County of · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 3EX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR5
- Postcode sector
- HR5 3
- Latitude
- 52.165098
- Longitude
- -3.047959
- British National Grid easting
- 328,418
- British National Grid northing
- 252,387
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
- E04000791
- Westminster constituency
- North Herefordshire · E14001395
- Output area
- E00070859
- Lower layer super output area
- Herefordshire 006C · E01014033
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 4.2 km
Lady Hawkins' School
Academy converter
- 4.3 km
Eardisley CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.3 km
Kington Primary School
Community school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 10
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- HR5 3 residents
- 4,788
5 female, 5 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HR5 3 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
KINGTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
EARDISLEY ROAD, KINGTON, HR5 3EA
ODS code M81054
4.2 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 1.2 miles
Brilley Mountain
BCT · Brilley
- 1.2 miles
Brilley Mountain
BCT · Brilley
- 1.4 miles
Mahollam Farm
BCT · Upper Hergest
- 1.4 miles
Mahollam Farm
BCT · Upper Hergest
- 1.6 miles
Arrow View
BCT · Hergest
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 006C, 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
12,988 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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.
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.