Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Ellesmere Primary School is the nearest published school at 454 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY12 9WF
Ellesmere Urban · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ellesmere Urban
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY12
- Postcode sector
- SY12 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY12 9WF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- 1 September 2003
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY12
- Postcode sector
- SY12 9
- Latitude
- 52.906826
- Longitude
- -2.895535
- British National Grid easting
- 339,867
- British National Grid northing
- 334,751
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Ellesmere Urban · E05016037
- Parish or community
- E04011270
- Westminster constituency
- North Shropshire · E14001398
- Output area
- E00147015
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 004C · E01028866
- 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
- 454 m
Ellesmere Primary School
Academy converter
- 519 m
Lakelands Academy
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Ellesmere College
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 281
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 129
- Anti social behaviour 34
- Shoplifting 25
- Burglary 22
- Criminal damage and arson 20
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY12 9 residents
- 3,649
Age bands in SY12 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.6%
523 residents
399 residents
667 residents
1,199 residents
1,172 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
CHURCHMERE MEDICAL GROUP
TRIMPLEY STREET, ELLESMERE, SY12 0DB
ODS code M82025
132 m
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Tesco
BCT · Ellesmere
- 3.4 miles
Maelor School
BCT · Penley
- 3.4 miles
Maelor School
BCT · Penley
- 3.4 miles
Maelor School
BCT · Penley
- 3.4 miles
Penley Maelor School
BCT · Maelor South
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 004C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,673 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
281 published events cover 12 months, averaging 23.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 129 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.