Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. Ercall Wood Academy is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TF6 5DS
Wrockwardine · Telford and Wrekin · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wrockwardine
- Local authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- The Wrekin
- Postcode district
- TF6
- Postcode sector
- TF6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TF6 5DS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- TF
- Postcode district
- TF6
- Postcode sector
- TF6 5
- Latitude
- 52.676593
- Longitude
- -2.538317
- British National Grid easting
- 363,700
- British National Grid northing
- 308,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Telford and Wrekin · E06000020
- Electoral ward
- Wrockwardine · E05015237
- Parish or community
- E04000936
- Westminster constituency
- The Wrekin · E14001543
- Output area
- E00071701
- Lower layer super output area
- Telford and Wrekin 010D · E01014202
- Middle layer super output area
- Telford and Wrekin 010 · E02002937
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 TF6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 3
- 2.3 km
Ercall Wood Academy
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- 2.8 km
Short Wood Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.2 km
Overley Hall School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 33
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Public order 6
- Drugs 5
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Burglary 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TF6 5 residents
- 1,718
Age bands in TF6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 16.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.5%
186 residents
169 residents
272 residents
533 residents
486 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
WELLINGTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHAPEL LANE, WELLINGTON, TELFORD, TF1 1PZ
ODS code M82039
3.1 km
SHAWBIRCH MEDICAL CENTRE
BRANDON AVENUE, ADMASTON, TELFORD, TF5 0DU
ODS code M82059
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
The Wrekin Forest Glen Car Park
BCT · Wrekin
- 1.2 miles
Old Orleton Hotel
BCT · Wellington
- 1.2 miles
Old Orleton Hotel
BCT · Wellington
- 1.2 miles
Herbert Avenue
BCT · Wellington
- 1.3 miles
Herbert Avenue
BCT · Wellington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Telford and Wrekin 010D, 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
20,756 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
33 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Public order with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.