Schools
53 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 8 secondary schools. The Linden Centre is the nearest published school at 246 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TF3 5EQ
Overdale & The Rock · Telford and Wrekin · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Telford
- Ward
- Overdale & The Rock
- Local authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- Telford
- Postcode district
- TF3
- Postcode sector
- TF3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TF3 5EQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TF
- Postcode district
- TF3
- Postcode sector
- TF3 5
- Latitude
- 52.684712
- Longitude
- -2.467943
- British National Grid easting
- 368,464
- British National Grid northing
- 309,770
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Telford and Wrekin · E06000020
- Electoral ward
- Overdale & The Rock · E05015231
- Parish or community
- E04000934
- Westminster constituency
- Telford · E14001541
- Output area
- E00071488
- Lower layer super output area
- Telford and Wrekin 024C · E01014157
- Middle layer super output area
- Telford and Wrekin 024 · E02007050
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 TF3
Property
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Barberry Close, The Rock, Telford, TF3 5EQ | 21 February 2018 | £210,000 |
| 4, Barberry Close, The Rock, Telford, TF3 5EQ | 4 April 2016 | £227,500 |
| 1, Barberry Close, The Rock, Telford, TF3 5EQ | 14 August 2015 | £229,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 53
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 8
- 246 m
The Linden Centre
Pupil referral unit
- 513 m
Newdale Primary School & Nursery
Community school
- 969 m
Meadows Primary School and Nursery
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,598
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,027
- Shoplifting 468
- Anti social behaviour 258
- Public order 164
- Criminal damage and arson 162
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- TF3 5 residents
- 6,796
13 female, 12 male
Age bands in TF3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 36.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.1%
1,519 residents
747 residents
2,377 residents
1,361 residents
461 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider TF3 5 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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.
GP practices
7
within 5 km
CHARLTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHARLTON MEDICAL CENTRE, LION STREET, OAKENGATES, TELFORD, TF2 6AQ
ODS code M82007
1.6 km
TELDOC
BRUNEL ROAD, MALINSLEE, TELFORD, TF3 2BF
ODS code Y01929
1.6 km
DAWLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
KING STREET, DAWLEY, TELFORD, TF4 2AA
ODS code M82009
2.3 km
HOLLINSWOOD SURGERY
DOWNEMEAD, TELFORD, TF3 2EW
ODS code M82057
2.4 km
WELLINGTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHAPEL LANE, WELLINGTON, TELFORD, TF1 1PZ
ODS code M82039
3.6 km
DONNINGTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE HEALTH CENTRE, WREKIN DRIVE, DONNINGTON, TELFORD, TF2 8EA
ODS code M82012
4.0 km
STIRCHLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
STIRCHLEY HEALTH CENTRE, SANDINO ROAD, STIRCHLEY, TELFORD, TF3 1FB
ODS code M82003
4.0 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Mannerley Lane
BCT · Overdale
- 0.2 miles
Barratt Terrace
BCT · Overdale
- 0.2 miles
Mannerley Lane
BCT · Overdale
- 0.2 miles
Barratt Terrace
BCT · Overdale
- 0.2 miles
Woodrush Heath
BCT · Overdale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Telford and Wrekin 024C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,844 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 1
- 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
Recorded crime
2,598 published events cover 12 months, averaging 216.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,027 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.