Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 1 secondary schools. Minsterley Primary School is the nearest published school at 305 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY5 0YZ
Rea Valley · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Rea Valley
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury
- Postcode district
- SY5
- Postcode sector
- SY5 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY5 0YZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 2017
- Terminated
- 1 April 2025
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY5
- Postcode sector
- SY5 0
- Latitude
- 52.638039
- Longitude
- -2.923711
- British National Grid easting
- 337,588
- British National Grid northing
- 304,876
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Rea Valley · E05016062
- Parish or community
- E04011317
- Westminster constituency
- Shrewsbury · E14001473
- Output area
- E00147555
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 026C · E01028975
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 026 · E02006039
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
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 2
- Secondary
- 1
- 305 m
Minsterley Primary School
Community school
- 2.9 km
Pontesbury CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.0 km
Mary Webb School and Science College
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 125
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 65
- Anti social behaviour 19
- Criminal damage and arson 13
- Other theft 10
- Public order 10
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%
891 residents
550 residents
1,161 residents
1,832 residents
1,872 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
PONTESBURY & WORTHEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HALL BANK, PONTESBURY, SHREWSBURY, SY5 0RF
ODS code M82030
2.8 km
Nearby transport
- 6.5 miles
Old Hand & Diamond
BCT · Coedway
- 6.6 miles
Old Hand & Diamond
BCT · Coedway
- 6.6 miles
Breidden Hotel
BCT · Middletown
- 6.6 miles
Breidden Hotel
BCT · Middletown
- 7.0 miles
Gains Park Way Shelter
BCS · Bicton Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 026C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,503 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
125 published events cover 12 months, averaging 10.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 65 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.