Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Kingsland CofE School is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HR6 9YH
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 9YH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- 1 June 2001
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR6
- Postcode sector
- HR6 9
- Latitude
- 52.237621
- Longitude
- -2.843707
- British National Grid easting
- 342,482
- British National Grid northing
- 260,271
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
- E00168508
- 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
- 2.4 km
Kingsland CofE School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.0 km
Shobdon Primary School
Community school
- 4.2 km
Pembridge CofE Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Burglary 2
- Public order 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Other theft 1
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
2.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Car Auctions
BCT · Shirl Heath
- 0.9 miles
Car Auctions
BCT · Shirl Heath
- 1.1 miles
White Swan PH
BCT · Eardisland
- 1.1 miles
White Swan PH
BCT · Eardisland
- 1.4 miles
Coronation Hall
BCT · Kingsland
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
13 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.