Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Fitzroy Academy is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY5 9PJ
Loton · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Loton
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury
- Postcode district
- SY5
- Postcode sector
- SY5 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY5 9PJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY5
- Postcode sector
- SY5 9
- Latitude
- 52.685268
- Longitude
- -2.889026
- British National Grid easting
- 340,000
- British National Grid northing
- 310,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Loton · E05016043
- Parish or community
- E04011383
- Westminster constituency
- Shrewsbury · E14001473
- Output area
- E00147566
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 026D · E01028976
- 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
- 6
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.9 km
The Fitzroy Academy
Other independent special school
- 3.5 km
Trinity CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.7 km
St Thomas and St Anne CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 5
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Public order 2
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY5 9 residents
- 5,036
Age bands in SY5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.4%
752 residents
484 residents
929 residents
1,579 residents
1,143 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
PONTESBURY & WORTHEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HALL BANK, PONTESBURY, SHREWSBURY, SY5 0RF
ODS code M82030
3.9 km
WESTBURY MEDICAL CENTRE
WESTBURY, SHREWSBURY, SY5 9QX
ODS code M82013
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 3.8 miles
Gains Park Way Shelter
BCS · Bicton Heath
- 4.2 miles
Wenlock Edge House
BCT · Gains Park
- 4.7 miles
Old Hand & Diamond
BCT · Coedway
- 4.7 miles
Old Hand & Diamond
BCT · Coedway
- 5.6 miles
Firtree Inn
BCT · Crewgreen
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 026D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,797 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
12 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.