Schools
4 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 1 secondary schools. Moor Park School is the nearest published school at 2.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY8 2HE
Mortimer · Herefordshire, County of · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Mortimer
- Local authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire
- Postcode district
- SY8
- Postcode sector
- SY8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY8 2HE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY8
- Postcode sector
- SY8 2
- Latitude
- 52.353750
- Longitude
- -2.782723
- British National Grid easting
- 346,786
- British National Grid northing
- 273,141
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Herefordshire, County of · E06000019
- Electoral ward
- Mortimer · E05009473
- Parish or community
- E04000719
- Westminster constituency
- North Herefordshire · E14001395
- Output area
- E00070947
- Lower layer super output area
- Herefordshire 001C · E01014052
- Middle layer super output area
- Herefordshire 001 · E02002905
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 SY8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 4
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 1
- 3.8 km
Moor Park School
Other independent school
- 4.6 km
Ludlow Church of England School
Academy converter
- 4.6 km
Overton School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- SY8 2 residents
- 3,839
1 female, 1 male
Age bands in SY8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.1%
581 residents
364 residents
730 residents
1,055 residents
1,066 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SY8 2 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
LUDLOW - PORTCULLIS
PORTCULLIS LANE, LUDLOW, SY8 1GT
ODS code M82043
4.9 km
STATION DRIVE SURGERY
STATION DRIVE, LUDLOW, SY8 2AB
ODS code M82014
5.0 km
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
- 0.9 miles
Church
BCT · Pipe Aston
- 0.9 miles
Church
BCT · Pipe Aston
- 1.6 miles
Church
BCT · Elton
- 1.6 miles
Church
BCT · Elton
- 2.8 miles
Castle Inn
BCT · Richards Castle
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 001C, 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
13,628 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 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
Recorded crime
1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.