Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Longlands Primary School is the nearest published school at 518 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TF9 3AN
Market Drayton East & Rural · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- North Shropshire
- Postcode district
- TF9
- Postcode sector
- TF9 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- TF9 3AN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1998
- Postcode area
- TF
- Postcode district
- TF9
- Postcode sector
- TF9 3
- Latitude
- 52.910521
- Longitude
- -2.485796
- British National Grid easting
- 367,427
- British National Grid northing
- 334,897
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Market Drayton East & Rural · E05016047
- Parish or community
- E04013493
- Westminster constituency
- North Shropshire · E14001398
- Output area
- E00147054
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 005A · E01028873
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 005 · E02006018
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 TF9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 1
- 518 m
Longlands Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 774 m
The Grove School
Academy converter
- 808 m
Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 829
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 352
- Anti social behaviour 87
- Shoplifting 83
- Other theft 78
- Criminal damage and arson 78
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- TF9 3 residents
- 8,874
Age bands in TF9 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 23%
1,397 residents
782 residents
1,854 residents
2,270 residents
1,884 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
MARKET DRAYTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
MAER LANE, MARKET DRAYTON, TF9 3AL
ODS code M82010
197 m
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Longlands Lane
BCT · Market Drayton
- 0.5 miles
Cemetery Road Jct
BCT · Market Drayton
- 0.8 miles
Portland Drive
BCT · Market Drayton
- 0.8 miles
Sutton Lane
BCT · Market Drayton
- 0.9 miles
Salisbury Hill View
BCT · Market Drayton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 005A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,389 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
829 published events cover 12 months, averaging 69.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 352 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.