Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Corbet School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY4 2JL
Ruyton & Baschurch · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ruyton & Baschurch
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY4
- Postcode sector
- SY4 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY4 2JL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2004
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY4
- Postcode sector
- SY4 2
- Latitude
- 52.799289
- Longitude
- -2.834113
- British National Grid easting
- 343,859
- British National Grid northing
- 322,739
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Ruyton & Baschurch · E05016063
- Parish or community
- E04013494
- Westminster constituency
- North Shropshire · E14001398
- Output area
- E00146989
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 010A · E01028860
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 010 · E02006021
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 SY4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.3 km
The Corbet School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Baschurch CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.3 km
Myddle CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 41
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 22
- Anti social behaviour 8
- Public order 3
- Possession of weapons 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY4 2 residents
- 3,252
Age bands in SY4 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.1%
546 residents
330 residents
643 residents
933 residents
694 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
PRESCOTT SURGERY
PRESCOTT ROAD, PRESCOTT, BASCHURCH, SHREWSBURY, SY4 2DR
ODS code M82023
2.1 km
Nearby transport
- 4.1 miles
Yorton Rail Station
RLY · Yorton
- 6.2 miles
Gains Park Way Shelter
BCS · Bicton Heath
- 6.3 miles
Wem Rail Station
RLY · Wem
- 6.6 miles
Wenlock Edge House
BCT · Gains Park
- 7.0 miles
Shrewsbury Rail Station
RLY · Shrewsbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 010A, 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
25,370 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
41 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 22 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.