Property market
The five-year median is £252,500 from 1 recorded sale in WR2 5LU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Worcester is £253,787 in June 2026, up 1.7% year on year.
WR2 5LU
St John's · Worcester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WR2 5LU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WR
- Postcode district
- WR2
- Postcode sector
- WR2 5
- Latitude
- 52.192158
- Longitude
- -2.241502
- British National Grid easting
- 383,588
- British National Grid northing
- 254,906
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Worcester · E07000237
- Electoral ward
- St John's · E05015860
- Parish or community
- E43000153
- Westminster constituency
- Worcester · E14001597
- Output area
- E00164838
- Lower layer super output area
- Worcester 009C · E01032320
- Middle layer super output area
- Worcester 009 · E02006742
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 WR2
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 57, Laugherne Road, Worcester, WR2 5LU | 21 February 2025 | £252,500 |
| 59, Laugherne Road, Worcester, WR2 5LU | 21 May 2021 | £185,000 |
| 51, Laugherne Road, Worcester, WR2 5LU | 24 June 2020 | £320,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 5
- 446 m
St Clement's CofE Primary
Academy converter
- 522 m
Perryfields Primary Pupil Referral Unit
Pupil referral unit
- 539 m
Oldbury Park Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,480
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,804
- Shoplifting 563
- Anti social behaviour 492
- Public order 334
- Criminal damage and arson 288
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 19
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- WR2 5 residents
- 12,989
9 female, 10 male
Age bands in WR2 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 18%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 18%
2,173 residents
2,369 residents
3,287 residents
2,981 residents
2,374 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WR2 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 25%
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
9
within 5 km
SEVERN VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
HENWICK HALT MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 INGLES DRIVE, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER, WR2 5HL
ODS code M81006
482 m
ST JOHNS HOUSE SURGERY
ST JOHN'S HOUSE MED CTR, 299 BROMYARD ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 5ER
ODS code M81063
848 m
ALBANY HOUSE SURGERY
ALBANY TERRACE, WORCESTER, WR1 3DU
ODS code M81072
1.3 km
THORNELOE LODGE SURGERY
29 BARBOURNE ROAD, WORCESTER, WR1 1RU
ODS code M81037
1.5 km
SPRING GARDENS GROUP MEDICAL PRACTICE
PROVIDENCE STREET, SPRING GARDENS, WORCESTER, WR1 2BS
ODS code M81008
1.7 km
BARBOURNE HEALTH CENTRE
BARBOURNE HOUSE, 44 DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER, WR3 7LH
ODS code M81049
2.2 km
ST MARTIN'S GATE SURGERY
TURNPIKE HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 37 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1EZ
ODS code M81035
2.6 km
HARESFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
37 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1HG
ODS code M81022
2.6 km
ELBURY MOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
FAIRFIELD CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR4 9TX
ODS code M81017
3.6 km
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
- 0.0 miles
Buck Street
BCT · St Johns
- 0.0 miles
Buck Street
BCT · St Johns
- 0.1 miles
Comer Avenue
BCT · St Johns
- 0.1 miles
Comer Avenue
BCT · St Johns
- 0.2 miles
McIntyre Road
BCT · St Johns
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Worcester 009C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
23,657 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 5 secondary schools. St Clement's CofE Primary is the nearest published school at 446 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
4,480 published events cover 12 months, averaging 373.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,804 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.