Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. Loppington House FE Unit is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY4 5NF
The Meres · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Shrewsbury
- Ward
- The Meres
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY4
- Postcode sector
- SY4 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY4 5NF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY4
- Postcode sector
- SY4 5
- Latitude
- 52.867098
- Longitude
- -2.782587
- British National Grid easting
- 347,415
- British National Grid northing
- 330,243
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- The Meres · E05016075
- Parish or community
- E04011307
- Westminster constituency
- North Shropshire · E14001398
- Output area
- E00147116
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 010D · E01028888
- 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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Loppington House, Loppington, Shrewsbury, SY4 5NF | 17 April 2018 | £500,000 |
| Loppington House, Further Education Unit, Loppington, Shrewsbury, SY4 5NF | 31 May 2016 | £400,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 0 m
Loppington House FE Unit
Miscellaneous
- 1.6 km
Newtown CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.7 km
The Thomas Adams School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 24
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 11
- Burglary 3
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Other theft 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY4 5 residents
- 9,491
Age bands in SY4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 26%
1,320 residents
1,139 residents
1,724 residents
2,726 residents
2,431 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
WEM AND PREES MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEW STREET, WEM, SHREWSBURY, SY4 5AF
ODS code M82035
4.1 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
- 2.8 miles
Wem Rail Station
RLY · Wem
- 4.5 miles
Yorton Rail Station
RLY · Yorton
- 5.8 miles
Old Bronington Post Office
BCT · Bronington
- 5.8 miles
Old Bronington Post Office
BCT · Bronington
- 6.0 miles
St Chad`s Church
BCT · Hanmer
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 010D, 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
16,090 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
24 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 11 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.