Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Ellesmere College is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY12 0HY
The Meres · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- The Meres
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY12
- Postcode sector
- SY12 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY12 0HY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY12
- Postcode sector
- SY12 0
- Latitude
- 52.887407
- Longitude
- -2.860387
- British National Grid easting
- 342,205
- British National Grid northing
- 332,562
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- The Meres · E05016075
- Parish or community
- E04011378
- Westminster constituency
- North Shropshire · E14001398
- Output area
- E00147043
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 004E · E01028872
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 004 · E02006017
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 SY12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.3 km
Ellesmere College
Other independent school
- 2.7 km
Welshampton CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.3 km
Lakelands Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 2
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY12 0 residents
- 4,969
Age bands in SY12 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.9%
742 residents
455 residents
971 residents
1,505 residents
1,283 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
CHURCHMERE MEDICAL GROUP
TRIMPLEY STREET, ELLESMERE, SY12 0DB
ODS code M82025
3.3 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 1.9 miles
Tesco
BCT · Ellesmere
- 4.5 miles
Cumber`s Bank
BCT · Cumbers Bank
- 4.5 miles
Cumber`s Bank
BCT · Cumbers Bank
- 4.5 miles
Maelor School
BCT · Penley
- 4.5 miles
Maelor School
BCT · Penley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 004E, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,189 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 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
- 1 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.