Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Kingsland CofE School is the nearest published school at 147 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HR6 9RQ
Bircher · Herefordshire, County of · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bircher
- Local authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire
- Postcode district
- HR6
- Postcode sector
- HR6 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HR6 9RQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2004
- Terminated
- 1 January 2004
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR6
- Postcode sector
- HR6 9
- Latitude
- 52.248079
- Longitude
- -2.812706
- British National Grid easting
- 344,612
- British National Grid northing
- 261,410
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
- Electoral ward
- Bircher · E05009443
- Parish or community
- E04000788
- Westminster constituency
- North Herefordshire · E14001395
- Output area
- E00070654
- Lower layer super output area
- Herefordshire 004A · E01013999
- Middle layer super output area
- Herefordshire 004 · E02002908
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
- 4
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 147 m
Kingsland CofE School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.2 km
Lucton School
Other independent school
- 4.3 km
Luston Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 18
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Public order 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Other theft 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HR6 9 residents
- 5,882
Age bands in HR6 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.6%
905 residents
504 residents
1,062 residents
1,747 residents
1,693 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
THE MORTIMER MEDICAL PRAC
CROASE ORCHARD SURGERY, KINGSLAND, LEOMINSTER, HR6 9QL
ODS code M81043
256 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Corners Inn
BCT · Kingsland
- 0.1 miles
Corners Inn
BCT · Kingsland
- 0.1 miles
Coronation Hall
BCT · Kingsland
- 0.2 miles
Corners Inn
BCT · Kingsland
- 0.6 miles
The Mill
BCT · Cobnash
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 004A, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,172 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
18 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.