Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 0 primary and 0 secondary schools. Westbury School is the nearest published school at 268 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY5 9WH
Chirbury & Worthen · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Chirbury & Worthen
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury
- Postcode district
- SY5
- Postcode sector
- SY5 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY5 9WH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY5
- Postcode sector
- SY5 9
- Latitude
- 52.678558
- Longitude
- -2.953069
- British National Grid easting
- 335,661
- British National Grid northing
- 309,409
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Chirbury & Worthen · E05016028
- Parish or community
- E04011383
- Westminster constituency
- Shrewsbury · E14001473
- Output area
- E00147574
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 014E · E01028978
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 014 · E02006028
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
- 2
- Primary
- 0
- Secondary
- 0
- 268 m
Westbury School
Other independent special school
- 4.8 km
The Henslow and Evolution School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 29
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 18
- Anti social behaviour 3
- Other theft 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Burglary 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
1
within 5 km
WESTBURY MEDICAL CENTRE
WESTBURY, SHREWSBURY, SY5 9QX
ODS code M82013
156 m
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 3.5 miles
Old Hand & Diamond
BCT · Coedway
- 3.5 miles
Old Hand & Diamond
BCT · Coedway
- 3.9 miles
Breidden Hotel
BCT · Middletown
- 3.9 miles
Breidden Hotel
BCT · Middletown
- 4.2 miles
Firtree Inn
BCT · Crewgreen
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 014E, 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
14,636 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
29 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 18 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.