Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Ledbury Primary School is the nearest published school at 479 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
HR8 2WE
Ledbury West · Herefordshire, County of · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ledbury West
- Local authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire
- Postcode district
- HR8
- Postcode sector
- HR8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- HR8 2WE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2003
- Terminated
- 1 July 2005
- Postcode area
- HR
- Postcode district
- HR8
- Postcode sector
- HR8 2
- Latitude
- 52.042511
- Longitude
- -2.434741
- British National Grid easting
- 370,279
- British National Grid northing
- 238,323
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
- Electoral ward
- Ledbury West · E05009467
- Parish or community
- E04000797
- Westminster constituency
- North Herefordshire · E14001395
- Output area
- E00070882
- Lower layer super output area
- Herefordshire 019E · E01014039
- Middle layer super output area
- Herefordshire 019 · E02002923
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 HR8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 479 m
Ledbury Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
John Masefield High School
Academy converter
- 2.9 km
Queenswood School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 423
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 162
- Anti social behaviour 65
- Criminal damage and arson 48
- Public order 39
- Vehicle crime 24
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- HR8 2 residents
- 9,659
Age bands in HR8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.2%
1,291 residents
863 residents
1,897 residents
2,631 residents
2,751 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
LEDBURY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
LEDBURY MARKET P/SHIP, MARKET STREET, LEDBURY, HR8 2AQ
ODS code M81012
930 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Frost Road
BCT · Ledbury
- 0.1 miles
Frome Brook Road
BCT · Ledbury
- 0.1 miles
Frost Road
BCT · Ledbury
- 0.1 miles
Frome Brook Road
BCT · Ledbury
- 0.1 miles
Wye View
BCT · Ledbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 019E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,615 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 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
423 published events cover 12 months, averaging 35.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 162 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.