SY8 2LD

Mortimer · Herefordshire, County of · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Mortimer
Local authority: Herefordshire, County of
Constituency: North Herefordshire
Postcode district: SY8
Postcode sector: SY8 2

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
SY8 2LE	344 m
SY8 2LG	357 m
SY8 2LQ	398 m
SY8 2HY	473 m
SY8 2LH	724 m

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: SY8 2LD
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: SY
Postcode district: SY8
Postcode sector: SY8 2
Latitude: 52.373944
Longitude: -2.810578
British National Grid easting: 344,914
British National Grid northing: 275,408

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: E04000799
Westminster constituency: North Herefordshire · E14001395
Output area: E00070951
Lower layer super output area: Herefordshire 001B · E01014051
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

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Open schools: 2
Primary: 2
Secondary: 0

Onny CofE (A) Primary School

Academy converter
3.8 km
Leintwardine Endowed CE Primary School

Voluntary aided school
4.5 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 5
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Criminal damage and arson 3
Burglary 1
Violence and sexual offences 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 4
Postcode households: 4
Residents per household: 1.0
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%

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+: 100%
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: 100%

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.

Nearby transport

Church

BCT · Pipe Aston
2.3 miles
Church

BCT · Pipe Aston
2.4 miles
Church

BCT · Elton
2.8 miles
Church

BCT · Elton
2.8 miles
The Criftins

BCT · Leintwardine
2.9 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Herefordshire 001B, 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

4 of 10

Overall England rank

12,139 of 33,755

Income: 5 of 10
Employment: 6 of 10
Education and skills: 5 of 10
Health and disability: 8 of 10
Crime: 8 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

Schools

2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Onny CofE (A) Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.4 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 3 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.