Schools
2 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 1 secondary schools. Wigmore School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY8 2HN
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 2HN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY8
- Postcode sector
- SY8 2
- Latitude
- 52.323209
- Longitude
- -2.827668
- British National Grid easting
- 343,686
- British National Grid northing
- 269,778
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
- E04000798
- Westminster constituency
- North Herefordshire · E14001395
- Output area
- E00070948
- 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
- 2
- Primary
- 1
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.2 km
Wigmore School
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- 2.3 km
Wigmore Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY8 2 residents
- 3,839
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
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
- 0.0 miles
Burrington Turn
BCT · Leinthall Starkes
- 0.0 miles
Burrington Turn
BCT · Leinthall Starkes
- 1.3 miles
High School
BCT · Wigmore
- 1.3 miles
High School
BCT · Wigmore
- 1.4 miles
Church
BCT · Elton
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.