Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Woodlands School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY4 5PE
Wem · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wem
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY4
- Postcode sector
- SY4 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY4 5PE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY4
- Postcode sector
- SY4 5
- Latitude
- 52.847312
- Longitude
- -2.723060
- British National Grid easting
- 351,400
- British National Grid northing
- 328,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Wem · E05016078
- Parish or community
- E04011379
- Westminster constituency
- North Shropshire · E14001398
- Output area
- E00147118
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.2 km
Woodlands School
Academy special sponsor led
- 1.3 km
St Peter's CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
The Thomas Adams School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 407
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 198
- Anti social behaviour 64
- Criminal damage and arson 31
- Shoplifting 25
- Public order 22
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
WEM AND PREES MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEW STREET, WEM, SHREWSBURY, SY4 5AF
ODS code M82035
1.3 km
CLIVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, CLIVE, SHREWSBURY, SY4 5PS
ODS code M82017
3.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Wem Rail Station
RLY · Wem
- 2.7 miles
Yorton Rail Station
RLY · Yorton
- 3.9 miles
Prees Rail Station
RLY · Prees
- 7.3 miles
Old Bronington Post Office
BCT · Bronington
- 7.3 miles
Old Bronington Post Office
BCT · Bronington
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
407 published events cover 12 months, averaging 33.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 198 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.