Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Ludlow Primary School is the nearest published school at 678 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
SY8 9DB
Ludlow South · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ludlow South
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- SY8
- Postcode sector
- SY8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SY8 9DB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 2011
- Terminated
- 1 May 2014
- Postcode area
- SY
- Postcode district
- SY8
- Postcode sector
- SY8 9
- Latitude
- 52.368633
- Longitude
- -2.697402
- British National Grid easting
- 352,613
- British National Grid northing
- 274,737
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Ludlow South · E05016046
- Parish or community
- E04011309
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00147750
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 038F · E01029011
- 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
- 678 m
Ludlow Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
St Laurence CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.3 km
Ludlow Church of England School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 759
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 283
- Criminal damage and arson 111
- Anti social behaviour 101
- Shoplifting 85
- Other theft 48
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
STATION DRIVE SURGERY
STATION DRIVE, LUDLOW, SY8 2AB
ODS code M82014
1.2 km
LUDLOW - PORTCULLIS
PORTCULLIS LANE, LUDLOW, SY8 1GT
ODS code M82043
1.3 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Blashfield Rd Jct
BCT · Ludlow
- 0.1 miles
Corfield Road Jct
BCT · Ludlow
- 0.2 miles
Tollgate Road Shelter
BCT · Ludlow
- 0.2 miles
Ludlow Park & Ride
BCT · Ludlow
- 0.3 miles
NFU Mutual
BCT · Ludlow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 038F, 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
15,931 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 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
759 published events cover 12 months, averaging 63.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 283 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.