Schools
47 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 5 secondary schools. Newbridge School is the nearest published school at 275 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WR5 1AJ
Fort Royal · Worcester · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WR5 1AJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WR
- Postcode district
- WR5
- Postcode sector
- WR5 1
- Latitude
- 52.189882
- Longitude
- -2.214267
- British National Grid easting
- 385,449
- British National Grid northing
- 254,647
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Worcester · E07000237
- Electoral ward
- Fort Royal · E05015854
- Parish or community
- E43000153
- Westminster constituency
- Worcester · E14001597
- Output area
- E00164711
- 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 WR5
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 67, Dent Close, Worcester, WR5 1AJ | 13 June 2014 | £71,000 |
| 29, Dent Close, Worcester, WR5 1AJ | 20 December 2010 | £60,000 |
| 17, Dent Close, Worcester, WR5 1AJ | 7 December 2006 | £103,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 47
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 5
- 275 m
Newbridge School
Academy alternative provision sponsor led
- 294 m
Stanley Road Primary School
Academy converter
- 355 m
Fort Royal
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,911
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,252
- Shoplifting 765
- Anti social behaviour 635
- Public order 452
- Criminal damage and arson 448
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 121
- Postcode households
- 57
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- WR5 1 residents
- 11,388
65 female, 56 male
Age bands in WR5 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.3%
2,337 residents
1,370 residents
3,366 residents
2,877 residents
1,801 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WR5 1 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
- 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
SPRING GARDENS GROUP MEDICAL PRACTICE
PROVIDENCE STREET, SPRING GARDENS, WORCESTER, WR1 2BS
ODS code M81008
246 m
ST MARTIN'S GATE SURGERY
TURNPIKE HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 37 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1EZ
ODS code M81035
905 m
HARESFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
37 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1HG
ODS code M81022
947 m
SEVERN VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
HENWICK HALT MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 INGLES DRIVE, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER, WR2 5HL
ODS code M81006
1.4 km
ALBANY HOUSE SURGERY
ALBANY TERRACE, WORCESTER, WR1 3DU
ODS code M81072
1.5 km
THORNELOE LODGE SURGERY
29 BARBOURNE ROAD, WORCESTER, WR1 1RU
ODS code M81037
1.6 km
BARBOURNE HEALTH CENTRE
BARBOURNE HOUSE, 44 DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER, WR3 7LH
ODS code M81049
2.2 km
ELBURY MOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
FAIRFIELD CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR4 9TX
ODS code M81017
2.3 km
ST JOHNS HOUSE SURGERY
ST JOHN'S HOUSE MED CTR, 299 BROMYARD ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 5ER
ODS code M81063
2.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
City Walls Road
BCT · Worcester
- 0.2 miles
Sidbury
BCT · Worcester
- 0.2 miles
Sidbury
BCT · Worcester
- 0.2 miles
King's School
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.
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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 28
- 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
Recorded crime
5,911 published events cover 12 months, averaging 492.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,252 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.