Property market
The five-year median is £370,000 from 3 recorded sales in WR5 1FJ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Wychavon is £328,015 in June 2026, up 5.6% year on year.
WR5 1FJ
Drakes Broughton, Norton & Whittington · Wychavon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Worcester
- Local authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham
- Postcode district
- WR5
- Postcode sector
- WR5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WR5 1FJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WR
- Postcode district
- WR5
- Postcode sector
- WR5 1
- Latitude
- 52.179267
- Longitude
- -2.174670
- British National Grid easting
- 388,153
- British National Grid northing
- 253,459
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Wychavon · E07000238
- Electoral ward
- Drakes Broughton, Norton & Whittington · E05015447
- Parish or community
- E04010442
- Westminster constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham · E14001203
- Output area
- E00181273
- Lower layer super output area
- Wychavon 009D · E01032403
- Middle layer super output area
- Wychavon 009 · E02006756
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1, The Top, Whittington, Worcester, WR5 1FJ | 21 February 2024 | £370,000 |
| 2, The Top, Whittington, Worcester, WR5 1FJ | 24 July 2023 | £353,200 |
| 3, The Top, Whittington, Worcester, WR5 1FJ | 26 May 2023 | £443,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 41
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 5
- 883 m
Whittington CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 980 m
Worcester Sixth Form College
Academy 16-19 converter
- 1.0 km
New College Worcester (NMSS)
Non-maintained special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 492
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 216
- Anti social behaviour 52
- Shoplifting 43
- Other theft 42
- Criminal damage and arson 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WR5 1 residents
- 11,388
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
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
8
within 5 km
HARESFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
37 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1HG
ODS code M81022
2.6 km
ST MARTIN'S GATE SURGERY
TURNPIKE HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 37 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1EZ
ODS code M81035
2.7 km
SPRING GARDENS GROUP MEDICAL PRACTICE
PROVIDENCE STREET, SPRING GARDENS, WORCESTER, WR1 2BS
ODS code M81008
3.2 km
ELBURY MOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
FAIRFIELD CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR4 9TX
ODS code M81017
3.2 km
ALBANY HOUSE SURGERY
ALBANY TERRACE, WORCESTER, WR1 3DU
ODS code M81072
4.3 km
SEVERN VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
HENWICK HALT MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 INGLES DRIVE, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER, WR2 5HL
ODS code M81006
4.3 km
THORNELOE LODGE SURGERY
29 BARBOURNE ROAD, WORCESTER, WR1 1RU
ODS code M81037
4.4 km
BARBOURNE HEALTH CENTRE
BARBOURNE HOUSE, 44 DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER, WR3 7LH
ODS code M81049
4.8 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Kilbury Drive
BCT · Whittington
- 0.5 miles
County Hall Shelter
BCT · Nunnery Wood
- 0.5 miles
County Hall Shelter
BCT · Nunnery Wood
- 0.5 miles
Wildwood Drive
BCT · Nunnery Wood
- 0.5 miles
Wildwood Drive
BCT · Nunnery Wood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wychavon 009D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,553 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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
Schools
41 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 5 secondary schools. Whittington CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 883 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
492 published events cover 12 months, averaging 41 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 216 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.