Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Woodside Primary School is the nearest published school at 568 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY11 1LR
Oswestry North · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Oswestry North
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY11
- Postcode sector
- SY11 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY11 1LR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2017
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY11
- Postcode sector
- SY11 1
- Latitude
- 52.862481
- Longitude
- -3.059142
- British National Grid easting
- 328,791
- British National Grid northing
- 329,968
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Oswestry North · E05016053
- Parish or community
- E04012254
- Westminster constituency
- North Shropshire · E14001398
- Output area
- E00147253
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 007E · E01028917
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 007 · E02006025
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 SY11
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 568 m
Woodside Primary School
Academy converter
- 748 m
Our Lady and St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 757 m
Oswestry School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,313
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 607
- Anti social behaviour 183
- Criminal damage and arson 113
- Shoplifting 112
- Public order 100
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY11 1 residents
- 6,520
Age bands in SY11 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.1%
888 residents
652 residents
1,428 residents
1,877 residents
1,539 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
THE CAXTON SURGERY
OSWALD ROAD, OSWESTRY, SY11 1RD
ODS code M82022
542 m
CAMBRIAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
THOMAS SAVIN ROAD, OSWESTRY, SY11 1GA
ODS code M82026
766 m
PLAS FFYNNON MEDICAL CTRE
MIDDLETON ROAD, OSWESTRY, SY11 2RB
ODS code M82005
817 m
Nearby transport
- 2.3 miles
Gobowen Rail Station
RLY · Gobowen
- 3.0 miles
Rhydycroesau
BCT · Rhyd y Croesau
- 4.5 miles
Pont-faen Bridge
BCT · Chirk
- 4.5 miles
Pont-faen Bridge
BCT · Chirk
- 4.5 miles
Chirk Bridge
BCT · Chirk
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 007E, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,925 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
1,313 published events cover 12 months, averaging 109.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 607 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.