Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Cambian Hereford School is the nearest published school at 440 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HR6 8NL
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 8NL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1981
- Terminated
- 1 February 2023
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR6
- Postcode sector
- HR6 8
- Latitude
- 52.227715
- Longitude
- -2.734649
- British National Grid easting
- 349,918
- British National Grid northing
- 259,088
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
- 440 m
Cambian Hereford School
Other independent special school
- 630 m
Earl Mortimer College
Community school
- 663 m
Westfield School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,051
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 423
- Anti social behaviour 138
- Shoplifting 123
- Public order 101
- Criminal damage and arson 91
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HR6 8 residents
- 10,550
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
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
665 m
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Leominster
- 0.2 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Leominster
- 0.2 miles
Leominster Rail Station
RSE · Leominster
- 0.2 miles
Brook Hall
BCT · Leominster
- 0.2 miles
Leominster Rail Station
RLY · Leominster
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.
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
1,051 published events cover 12 months, averaging 87.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 423 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.