Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Ludlow Primary School is the nearest published school at 411 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY8 4JS
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 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY8 4JS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY8
- Postcode sector
- SY8 4
- Latitude
- 52.370071
- Longitude
- -2.702022
- British National Grid easting
- 352,300
- British National Grid northing
- 274,900
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
- E00147749
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 038G · E01029012
- 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
- 411 m
Ludlow Primary School
Academy converter
- 902 m
St Laurence CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.0 km
Ludlow Church of England School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 841
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 298
- Anti social behaviour 127
- Criminal damage and arson 122
- Shoplifting 88
- Other theft 57
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- SY8 4 residents
- 3,443
Age bands in SY8 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 7.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 35.3%
379 residents
253 residents
503 residents
1,071 residents
1,206 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
893 m
LUDLOW - PORTCULLIS
PORTCULLIS LANE, LUDLOW, SY8 1GT
ODS code M82043
958 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Corfield Road Jct
BCT · Ludlow
- 0.2 miles
Clee View Jct
BCT · Ludlow
- 0.2 miles
Blashfield Rd Jct
BCT · Ludlow
- 0.3 miles
Tollgate Road Shelter
BCT · Ludlow
- 0.3 miles
Steventon New Road Jct
BCT · Ludlow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 038G, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,774 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
841 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 298 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.