Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 1 secondary schools. Longlands Primary School is the nearest published school at 911 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
TF9 3WA
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 3WA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- TF
- Postcode district
- TF9
- Postcode sector
- TF9 3
- Latitude
- 52.915693
- Longitude
- -2.485066
- British National Grid easting
- 367,480
- British National Grid northing
- 335,472
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
- E00147089
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 002C · E01028882
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 002 · E02006016
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
- 911 m
Longlands Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.2 km
The Grove School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Market Drayton Infant & Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 678
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 258
- Shoplifting 76
- Anti social behaviour 75
- Other theft 73
- Criminal damage and arson 67
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
1
within 5 km
MARKET DRAYTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
MAER LANE, MARKET DRAYTON, TF9 3AL
ODS code M82010
775 m
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Longlands Lane
BCT · Market Drayton
- 0.8 miles
Cemetery Road Jct
BCT · Market Drayton
- 1.0 miles
Portland Drive
BCT · Market Drayton
- 1.2 miles
Sutton Lane
BCT · Market Drayton
- 1.2 miles
70 Farcroft Drive
BCT · Market Drayton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 002C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,498 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
678 published events cover 12 months, averaging 56.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 258 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.