Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Dothill Primary School is the nearest published school at 815 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TF5 0LJ
Shawbirch & Dothill · Telford and Wrekin · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Telford
- Ward
- Shawbirch & Dothill
- Local authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- The Wrekin
- Postcode district
- TF5
- Postcode sector
- TF5 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TF5 0LJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 1987
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TF
- Postcode district
- TF5
- Postcode sector
- TF5 0
- Latitude
- 52.719105
- Longitude
- -2.526331
- British National Grid easting
- 364,545
- British National Grid northing
- 313,623
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Telford and Wrekin · E06000020
- Electoral ward
- Shawbirch & Dothill · E05015233
- Parish or community
- E04000947
- Westminster constituency
- The Wrekin · E14001543
- Output area
- E00071649
- Lower layer super output area
- Telford and Wrekin 006E · E01014189
- Middle layer super output area
- Telford and Wrekin 006 · E02002933
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 TF5
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, Wych Elm Drive, Telford, TF5 0LJ | 8 October 2019 | £425,000 |
| 10, Wych Elm Drive, Telford, TF5 0LJ | 21 August 2019 | £257,000 |
| 9, Wych Elm Drive, Telford, TF5 0LJ | 25 November 2008 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 815 m
Dothill Primary School
Foundation school
- 910 m
St Peter's Bratton Church of England Academy
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Charlton School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 609
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 316
- Anti social behaviour 75
- Public order 48
- Other theft 38
- Criminal damage and arson 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 31
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- TF5 0 residents
- 5,078
18 female, 13 male
Age bands in TF5 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.2%
805 residents
593 residents
1,079 residents
1,637 residents
914 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider TF5 0 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
2
within 5 km
SHAWBIRCH MEDICAL CENTRE
BRANDON AVENUE, ADMASTON, TELFORD, TF5 0DU
ODS code M82059
869 m
WELLINGTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHAPEL LANE, WELLINGTON, TELFORD, TF1 1PZ
ODS code M82039
2.3 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Aspen Way
BCT · Shawbirch
- 0.1 miles
Woolpack
BCT · Shawbirch
- 0.1 miles
Woolpack
BCT · Shawbirch
- 0.2 miles
Swan Gate
BCT · Shawbirch
- 0.3 miles
Swan Gate
BCT · Shawbirch
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Telford and Wrekin 006E, 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
16,628 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
Recorded crime
609 published events cover 12 months, averaging 50.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 316 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.