Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 8 primary and 2 secondary schools. Oakwood School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY3 8HG
Loton · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Loton
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury
- Postcode district
- SY3
- Postcode sector
- SY3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY3 8HG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1982
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY3
- Postcode sector
- SY3 8
- Latitude
- 52.710834
- Longitude
- -2.834778
- British National Grid easting
- 343,700
- British National Grid northing
- 312,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Loton · E05016043
- Parish or community
- E04013485
- Westminster constituency
- Shrewsbury · E14001473
- Output area
- E00147517
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 014C · E01028970
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 014 · E02006028
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 SY3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 8
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.0 km
Oakwood School
Other independent special school
- 2.1 km
Oxon CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.1 km
Bicton Church of England Primary School and Nursery
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 40
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 25
- Burglary 3
- Other crime 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Drugs 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY3 8 residents
- 9,246
Age bands in SY3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.6%
1,642 residents
865 residents
2,129 residents
2,835 residents
2,443 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
MYTTON OAK MEDICAL PRACT.
RACECOURSE LANE, SHREWSBURY, SY3 5LZ
ODS code M82002
2.5 km
URGENT TREATMENT CENTRE
MYTTON OAK ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY3 8XQ
ODS code Y02495
2.8 km
RADBROOK GREEN SURGERY
BANK FARM ROAD, SHREWSBURY, SY3 6DU
ODS code M82016
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 1.1 miles
Gains Park Way Shelter
BCS · Bicton Heath
- 1.7 miles
Wenlock Edge House
BCT · Gains Park
- 3.4 miles
Bus Station Timetable
BCT · Shrewsbury
- 3.6 miles
Shrewsbury Rail Station
RLY · Shrewsbury
- 4.4 miles
Baptist Church
BCT · Monkmoor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 014C, 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
19,319 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
40 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 25 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.