Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 2 secondary schools. Harlescott House School is the nearest published school at 323 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY1 3EJ
Harlescott · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Harlescott
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury
- Postcode district
- SY1
- Postcode sector
- SY1 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY1 3EJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 2009
- Terminated
- 1 February 2010
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY1
- Postcode sector
- SY1 3
- Latitude
- 52.745955
- Longitude
- -2.742002
- British National Grid easting
- 350,008
- British National Grid northing
- 316,738
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Harlescott · E05016038
- Parish or community
- E04013487
- Westminster constituency
- Shrewsbury · E14001473
- Output area
- E00147460
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 015E · E01028958
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 015 · E02006029
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 SY1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 2
- 323 m
Harlescott House School
Other independent special school
- 590 m
Greenacres Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Grange Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 836
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 275
- Shoplifting 142
- Anti social behaviour 116
- Criminal damage and arson 82
- Public order 43
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY1 3 residents
- 7,918
Age bands in SY1 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.6%
1,459 residents
877 residents
1,926 residents
2,096 residents
1,549 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
SEVERN FIELDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
SEVERN FIELDS HTH VILLAGE, SUNDORNE ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY1 4RQ
ODS code M82032
2.4 km
RIVERSIDE MED PRACTICE
THE TANNERY, BARKER STREET, SHREWSBURY, SY1 1QJ
ODS code M82006
4.3 km
CLAREMONT BANK SURGERY
CLAREMONT BANK, SHREWSBURY, SY1 1RL
ODS code M82034
4.3 km
BELVIDERE MEDICAL PRACT.
23 BELVIDERE ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY2 5LS
ODS code M82048
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 2.4 miles
Shrewsbury Rail Station
RLY · Shrewsbury
- 2.5 miles
Bus Station Timetable
BCT · Shrewsbury
- 2.5 miles
Baptist Church
BCT · Monkmoor
- 2.5 miles
Flagwall
BCT · Monkmoor
- 3.5 miles
Wenlock Edge House
BCT · Gains Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 015E, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,431 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
836 published events cover 12 months, averaging 69.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 275 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.