Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. Westfield School is the nearest published school at 791 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HR6 8RU
Leominster West · Herefordshire, County of · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Leominster West
- 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 8RU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 November 2003
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR6
- Postcode sector
- HR6 8
- Latitude
- 52.224995
- Longitude
- -2.755365
- British National Grid easting
- 348,500
- British National Grid northing
- 258,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
- Electoral ward
- Leominster West · E05009471
- Parish or community
- E04000800
- Westminster constituency
- North Herefordshire · E14001395
- Output area
- E00070908
- Lower layer super output area
- Herefordshire 002C · E01014043
- Middle layer super output area
- Herefordshire 002 · E02002906
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
- 791 m
Westfield School
Community special school
- 1.1 km
Leominster Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Cambian Hereford School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,081
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 450
- Anti social behaviour 144
- Shoplifting 119
- Public order 99
- Criminal damage and arson 99
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
RYELAND SURGERY
MARSH COURT HEALTH CENTRE, 1 MARSH COURT ROAD, LEOMINSTER, HR6 8FU
ODS code M81016
1.6 km
THE MORTIMER MEDICAL PRAC
CROASE ORCHARD SURGERY, KINGSLAND, LEOMINSTER, HR6 9QL
ODS code M81043
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Morrisons Store
BCT · Barons Cross
- 0.1 miles
Morrisons Store
BCT · Barons Cross
- 0.1 miles
Morrisons Store
BCT · Barons Cross
- 0.3 miles
Danesfield Drive
BCT · Newlands
- 0.3 miles
Baron's Cross Inn
BCT · Barons Cross
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 002C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,648 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
1,081 published events cover 12 months, averaging 90.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 450 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.