Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Ludlow Primary School is the nearest published school at 666 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY8 2QE
Ludlow East · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ludlow East
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY8
- Postcode sector
- SY8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY8 2QE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY8
- Postcode sector
- SY8 2
- Latitude
- 52.378118
- Longitude
- -2.709495
- British National Grid easting
- 351,800
- British National Grid northing
- 275,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Ludlow East · E05016044
- Parish or community
- E04011309
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00147742
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 038E · E01029010
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 038 · E02006045
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
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 666 m
Ludlow Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Ludlow Church of England School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
St Laurence CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 764
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 278
- Criminal damage and arson 109
- Anti social behaviour 108
- Shoplifting 84
- Other theft 52
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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
STATION DRIVE SURGERY
STATION DRIVE, LUDLOW, SY8 2AB
ODS code M82014
967 m
LUDLOW - PORTCULLIS
PORTCULLIS LANE, LUDLOW, SY8 1GT
ODS code M82043
1.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Clee View Jct
BCT · Ludlow
- 0.6 miles
Ludlow Rail Station
RLY · Ludlow
- 0.7 miles
Corfield Road Jct
BCT · Ludlow
- 0.7 miles
Ludlow Mascall Centre opp
BCT · Ludlow
- 0.7 miles
Ludlow Mascall Centre adj
BCT · Ludlow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 038E, 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
11,854 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
764 published events cover 12 months, averaging 63.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 278 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.