SY5 6QZ

Severn Valley · Shropshire · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Severn Valley
Local authority: Shropshire
Constituency: South Shropshire
Postcode district: SY5
Postcode sector: SY5 6

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
SY5 6QJ	294 m
SY4 4TP	775 m
SY4 4UF	1.1 km
SY5 6PJ	1.1 km
SY4 4UH	1.1 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: SY5 6QZ
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: SY
Postcode district: SY5
Postcode sector: SY5 6
Latitude: 52.680373
Longitude: -2.658337
British National Grid easting: 355,589
British National Grid northing: 309,388

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: West Midlands · E12000005
Local authority district: Shropshire · E06000051
Electoral ward: Severn Valley · E05016065
Parish or community: E04011398
Westminster constituency: South Shropshire · E14001493
Output area: E00147583
Lower layer super output area: Shropshire 028D · E01028980
Middle layer super output area: Shropshire 028 · E02006040

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: 2
Primary: 2
Secondary: 0

St Lucia's CofE Primary School & Nursery

Voluntary controlled school
3.0 km
Mereside Church of England Primary Academy

Academy converter
4.9 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 14
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 5
Burglary 4
Other theft 2
Vehicle crime 1
Anti social behaviour 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 1
Postcode households: 1
Residents per household: 1.0
SY5 6 residents: 3,857

Age bands in SY5 6

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 15.7%
Age 15 to 24: 8.2%
Age 25 to 44: 19.6%
Age 45 to 64: 31.6%
Age 65 and over: 24.9%

This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY5 6 sector, not people in this individual postcode.

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

Farm

BCT · Charlton
2.8 miles
Grove Inn

BCT · Walcot
2.8 miles
Grange

BCT · Walcot
2.8 miles
Grove Inn

BCT · Walcot
2.8 miles
Grange

BCT · Walcot
2.8 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 028D, 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

13,504 of 33,755

Income: 7 of 10
Employment: 6 of 10
Education and skills: 6 of 10
Health and disability: 7 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.

Flood risk

Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.

High risk addresses: 0
Medium risk addresses: 0
Low risk addresses: 0
Groundwater flood alert area: Unlikely

Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Evidence in context

Schools

2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. St Lucia's CofE Primary School & Nursery is the nearest published school at 1.9 miles.

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

Recorded crime

14 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.