Schools
3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Stokesay Primary School is the nearest published school at 297 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY7 8BP
Craven Arms · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Craven Arms
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY7
- Postcode sector
- SY7 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY7 8BP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 April 2003
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY7
- Postcode sector
- SY7 8
- Latitude
- 52.440922
- Longitude
- -2.835139
- British National Grid easting
- 343,328
- British National Grid northing
- 282,877
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Craven Arms · E05016036
- Parish or community
- E04011258
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00147758
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 036D · E01029014
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 036 · E02006043
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 SY7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 3
- Primary
- 3
- Secondary
- 0
- 297 m
Stokesay Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 2.8 km
Wistanstow CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 4.3 km
Onny CofE (A) Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 199
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 105
- Anti social behaviour 20
- Other theft 16
- Public order 14
- Shoplifting 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY7 8 residents
- 2,984
Age bands in SY7 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 6.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 12.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 38.2%
361 residents
200 residents
398 residents
970 residents
1,194 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
CRAVEN ARMS SURGERY
20 SHREWSBURY ROAD, CRAVEN ARMS, SY7 9PY
ODS code M82046
157 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Craven Arms Rail Station
RLY · Craven Arms
- 2.5 miles
Broome Rail Station
RLY · Broome
- 4.7 miles
Hopton Heath Rail Station
RLY · Hopton Heath
- 5.6 miles
The Criftins
BCT · Leintwardine
- 5.9 miles
Lion Hotel
BCT · Leintwardine
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 036D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,484 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
199 published events cover 12 months, averaging 16.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 105 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.