Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 4 secondary schools. Mount Pleasant Primary is the nearest published school at 459 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY1 4DQ
Castlefields & Ditherington · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury
- Postcode district
- SY1
- Postcode sector
- SY1 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY1 4DQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- 1 July 2015
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY1
- Postcode sector
- SY1 4
- Latitude
- 52.724823
- Longitude
- -2.737069
- British National Grid easting
- 350,317
- British National Grid northing
- 314,384
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Castlefields & Ditherington · E05016026
- Parish or community
- E04013487
- Westminster constituency
- Shrewsbury · E14001473
- Output area
- E00147319
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 015A · E01028933
- 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
- 35
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 4
- 459 m
Mount Pleasant Primary
Academy converter
- 605 m
The Martin Wilson School
Academy converter
- 665 m
Shrewsbury Cathedral Catholic Primary School and Nursery
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,139
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 950
- Anti social behaviour 250
- Shoplifting 212
- Criminal damage and arson 197
- Public order 116
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY1 4 residents
- 11,087
Age bands in SY1 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.6%
2,055 residents
1,367 residents
3,431 residents
2,806 residents
1,647 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
10
within 5 km straight-line
SEVERN FIELDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
SEVERN FIELDS HTH VILLAGE, SUNDORNE ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY1 4RQ
ODS code M82032
1.1 km
BELVIDERE MEDICAL PRACT.
23 BELVIDERE ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY2 5LS
ODS code M82048
2.0 km
RIVERSIDE MED PRACTICE
THE TANNERY, BARKER STREET, SHREWSBURY, SY1 1QJ
ODS code M82006
2.3 km
CLAREMONT BANK SURGERY
CLAREMONT BANK, SHREWSBURY, SY1 1RL
ODS code M82034
2.4 km
SOUTH HERMITAGE SURGERY
MEDICAL CENTRE, 16 SOUTH HERMITAGE, BELLE VUE, SHREWSBURY, SY3 7JS
ODS code M82060
3.0 km
MARDEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
25 SUTTON ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY2 6DL
ODS code M82047
3.0 km
MARYSVILLE MEDICAL PRACT
BROOK STREET, BELLE VUE, SHREWSBURY, SY3 7QR
ODS code M82040
3.2 km
RADBROOK GREEN SURGERY
BANK FARM ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY3 6DU
ODS code M82016
4.1 km
URGENT TREATMENT CENTRE
MYTTON OAK ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY3 8XQ
ODS code Y02495
4.2 km
MYTTON OAK MEDICAL PRACT.
RACECOURSE LANE, SHREWSBURY, SY3 5LZ
ODS code M82002
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 1.0 miles
Shrewsbury Rail Station
RLY · Shrewsbury
- 1.0 miles
Baptist Church
BCT · Monkmoor
- 1.1 miles
Flagwall
BCT · Monkmoor
- 1.2 miles
Bus Station Timetable
BCT · Shrewsbury
- 2.7 miles
Wenlock Edge House
BCT · Gains Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 015A, 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
12,300 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
2,139 published events cover 12 months, averaging 178.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 950 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.