Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Cambian Hereford School is the nearest published school at 454 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HR6 8AX
Leominster East · Herefordshire, County of · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Leominster East
- Local authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire
- Postcode district
- HR6
- Postcode sector
- HR6 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HR6 8AX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2020
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR6
- Postcode sector
- HR6 8
- Latitude
- 52.223911
- Longitude
- -2.731863
- British National Grid easting
- 350,104
- British National Grid northing
- 258,663
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
- Electoral ward
- Leominster East · E05009468
- Parish or community
- E04000800
- Westminster constituency
- North Herefordshire · E14001395
- Output area
- E00070932
- Lower layer super output area
- Herefordshire 003D · E01014048
- Middle layer super output area
- Herefordshire 003 · E02002907
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 HR6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 8
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 454 m
Cambian Hereford School
Other independent special school
- 454 m
Earl Mortimer College
Community school
- 786 m
Leominster Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 988
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 419
- Anti social behaviour 137
- Public order 90
- Criminal damage and arson 87
- Shoplifting 85
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- HR6 8 residents
- 10,550
1 female, 0 male
Age bands in HR6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.4%
1,719 residents
1,009 residents
2,348 residents
2,592 residents
2,609 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider HR6 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.
GP practices
1
within 5 km straight-line
RYELAND SURGERY
MARSH COURT HEALTH CENTRE, 1 MARSH COURT ROAD, LEOMINSTER, HR6 8FU
ODS code M81016
1.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Leominster
- 0.1 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Leominster
- 0.1 miles
Leominster Rail Station
RSE · Leominster
- 0.1 miles
Leominster Rail Station
RLY · Leominster
- 0.2 miles
Caradoc Drive
BCT · Castlefields
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 003D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,766 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
988 published events cover 12 months, averaging 82.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 419 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.