Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 5 secondary schools. Cranham Primary School is the nearest published school at 721 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WR3 8ZJ
Claines · Worcester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WR3 8ZJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 July 2020
- Postcode area
- WR
- Postcode district
- WR3
- Postcode sector
- WR3 8
- Latitude
- 52.219362
- Longitude
- -2.199170
- British National Grid easting
- 386,490
- British National Grid northing
- 257,923
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Worcester · E07000237
- Electoral ward
- Claines · E05015852
- Parish or community
- E43000153
- Westminster constituency
- Worcester · E14001597
- Output area
- E00164748
- Lower layer super output area
- Worcester 001B · E01032297
- Middle layer super output area
- Worcester 001 · E02006734
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 WR3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 5
- 721 m
Cranham Primary School
Academy converter
- 878 m
Tudor Grange Academy Worcester
Academy sponsor led
- 1.0 km
The River School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,728
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 663
- Anti social behaviour 240
- Criminal damage and arson 165
- Other theft 135
- Public order 123
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WR3 8 residents
- 9,719
Age bands in WR3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.7%
1,532 residents
979 residents
2,684 residents
2,768 residents
1,836 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
ELBURY MOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
FAIRFIELD CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR4 9TX
ODS code M81017
1.5 km
BARBOURNE HEALTH CENTRE
BARBOURNE HOUSE, 44 DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER, WR3 7LH
ODS code M81049
2.1 km
THORNELOE LODGE SURGERY
29 BARBOURNE ROAD, WORCESTER, WR1 1RU
ODS code M81037
2.7 km
ST MARTIN'S GATE SURGERY
TURNPIKE HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 37 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1EZ
ODS code M81035
2.7 km
HARESFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
37 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1HG
ODS code M81022
2.7 km
ALBANY HOUSE SURGERY
ALBANY TERRACE, WORCESTER, WR1 3DU
ODS code M81072
2.9 km
SPRING GARDENS GROUP MEDICAL PRACTICE
PROVIDENCE STREET, SPRING GARDENS, WORCESTER, WR1 2BS
ODS code M81008
3.3 km
SEVERN VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
HENWICK HALT MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 INGLES DRIVE, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER, WR2 5HL
ODS code M81006
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Winchcombe Drive
BCT · Blackpole
- 0.4 miles
Cranham Trading Estate
BCT · Blackpole
- 0.4 miles
Cranham Trading Estate
BCT · Blackpole
- 0.4 miles
Blackpole Inn
BCT · Blackpole
- 0.5 miles
Blackpole Inn
BCT · Blackpole
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Worcester 001B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,828 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
1,728 published events cover 12 months, averaging 144 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 663 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.