SY5 0NQ

Chirbury & Worthen · Shropshire · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Chirbury & Worthen
Local authority: Shropshire
Constituency: South Shropshire
Postcode district: SY5
Postcode sector: SY5 0

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
SY5 0LZ	128 m
SY5 0PD	164 m
SY5 0PF	173 m
SY5 0NA	272 m
SY5 0PG	287 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: SY5 0NQ
Status: Terminated
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: 1 December 1994
Postcode area: SY
Postcode district: SY5
Postcode sector: SY5 0
Latitude: 52.597656
Longitude: -2.941879
British National Grid easting: 336,300
British National Grid northing: 300,400

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: West Midlands · E12000005
Local authority district: Shropshire · E06000051
Electoral ward: Chirbury & Worthen · E05016028
Parish or community: E04011397
Westminster constituency: South Shropshire · E14001493
Output area: E00147776
Lower layer super output area: Shropshire 030F · E01035071
Middle layer super output area: Shropshire 030 · E02006041

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 SY5

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 1
Primary: 1
Secondary: 0

Minsterley Primary School

Community school
4.4 km

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: Not supplied
Postcode households: Not supplied
Residents per household: Not available
SY5 0 residents: 6,212

Age bands in SY5 0

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 14.1%
Age 15 to 24: 8.7%
Age 25 to 44: 18.4%
Age 45 to 64: 29.1%
Age 65 and over: 29.7%

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.

Nearby transport

Carding Mill Valley

BCT · Devils Mouth
6.5 miles
Post Office

BCT · Churchstoke
6.7 miles
Old School House

BCT · Churchstoke
6.8 miles
Old School House

BCT · Churchstoke
6.8 miles
Breidden Hotel

BCT · Middletown
8.4 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 030F, 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

14,042 of 33,755

Income: 7 of 10
Employment: 8 of 10
Education and skills: 8 of 10
Health and disability: 9 of 10
Crime: 9 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

Schools

1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Minsterley Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.7 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.