Schools
47 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 5 secondary schools. The King's School is the nearest published school at 112 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WR1 2LX
Cathedral · Worcester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WR1 2LX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1988
- Postcode area
- WR
- Postcode district
- WR1
- Postcode sector
- WR1 2
- Latitude
- 52.188548
- Longitude
- -2.220828
- British National Grid easting
- 385,000
- British National Grid northing
- 254,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Worcester · E07000237
- Electoral ward
- Cathedral · E05015851
- Parish or community
- E43000153
- Westminster constituency
- Worcester · E14001597
- Output area
- E00181285
- Lower layer super output area
- Worcester 011F · E01033249
- Middle layer super output area
- Worcester 011 · E02006744
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 WR1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 47
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 5
- 112 m
The King's School
Other independent school
- 737 m
Fort Royal
Community special school
- 743 m
Newbridge School
Academy alternative provision sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,508
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,054
- Shoplifting 726
- Anti social behaviour 589
- Public order 432
- Criminal damage and arson 404
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WR1 2 residents
- 2,523
Age bands in WR1 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 17.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 37%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.8%
283 residents
436 residents
942 residents
562 residents
326 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
SPRING GARDENS GROUP MEDICAL PRACTICE
PROVIDENCE STREET, SPRING GARDENS, WORCESTER, WR1 2BS
ODS code M81008
463 m
SEVERN VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
HENWICK HALT MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 INGLES DRIVE, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER, WR2 5HL
ODS code M81006
994 m
ST MARTIN'S GATE SURGERY
TURNPIKE HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 37 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1EZ
ODS code M81035
1.4 km
ALBANY HOUSE SURGERY
ALBANY TERRACE, WORCESTER, WR1 3DU
ODS code M81072
1.4 km
HARESFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
37 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1HG
ODS code M81022
1.4 km
THORNELOE LODGE SURGERY
29 BARBOURNE ROAD, WORCESTER, WR1 1RU
ODS code M81037
1.6 km
ST JOHNS HOUSE SURGERY
ST JOHN'S HOUSE MED CTR, 299 BROMYARD ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 5ER
ODS code M81063
2.0 km
BARBOURNE HEALTH CENTRE
BARBOURNE HOUSE, 44 DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER, WR3 7LH
ODS code M81049
2.3 km
ELBURY MOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
FAIRFIELD CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR4 9TX
ODS code M81017
2.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Cathedral
BCT · Worcester
- 0.1 miles
King's School
BCT · Worcester
- 0.2 miles
City Walls Road
BCT · Worcester
- 0.2 miles
Sidbury
BCT · Worcester
- 0.2 miles
Sidbury
BCT · Worcester
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Worcester 011F, 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
7,956 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
5,508 published events cover 12 months, averaging 459 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,054 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.