Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 3 secondary schools. Dothill Primary School is the nearest published school at 695 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TF6 6EL
Shawbirch & Dothill · Telford and Wrekin · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Shawbirch & Dothill
- Local authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Constituency
- The Wrekin
- Postcode district
- TF6
- Postcode sector
- TF6 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TF6 6EL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- TF
- Postcode district
- TF6
- Postcode sector
- TF6 6
- Latitude
- 52.717996
- Longitude
- -2.526984
- British National Grid easting
- 364,500
- British National Grid northing
- 313,500
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 TF6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 3
- 695 m
Dothill Primary School
Foundation school
- 870 m
St Peter's Bratton Church of England Academy
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Charlton School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 659
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 341
- Anti social behaviour 85
- Public order 52
- Criminal damage and arson 41
- Other theft 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TF6 6 residents
- 4,070
Age bands in TF6 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 30.5%
400 residents
331 residents
635 residents
1,140 residents
1,100 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
SHAWBIRCH MEDICAL CENTRE
BRANDON AVENUE, ADMASTON, TELFORD, TF5 0DU
ODS code M82059
811 m
WELLINGTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHAPEL LANE, WELLINGTON, TELFORD, TF1 1PZ
ODS code M82039
2.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Woolpack
BCT · Shawbirch
- 0.1 miles
Woolpack
BCT · Shawbirch
- 0.1 miles
Aspen Way
BCT · Shawbirch
- 0.2 miles
Swan Gate
BCT · Shawbirch
- 0.2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
659 published events cover 12 months, averaging 54.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 341 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.