Property market
The five-year median is £450,000 from 3 recorded sales in WR5 1JB. 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.
WR5 1JB
Leopard Hill · Worcester · England
Updated September 2026
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Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WR5 1JB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WR
- Postcode district
- WR5
- Postcode sector
- WR5 1
- Latitude
- 52.194237
- Longitude
- -2.185687
- British National Grid easting
- 387,404
- British National Grid northing
- 255,126
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Worcester · E07000237
- Electoral ward
- Leopard Hill · E05015855
- Parish or community
- E43000153
- Westminster constituency
- Worcester · E14001597
- Output area
- E00181288
- Lower layer super output area
- Worcester 008A · E01032337
- Middle layer super output area
- Worcester 008 · E02006741
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
23 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 239, Newtown Road, Worcester, WR5 1JB | 29 May 2025 | £342,500 |
| 207, Newtown Road, Worcester, WR5 1JB | 18 September 2023 | £450,000 |
| 209, Newtown Road, Worcester, WR5 1JB | 20 July 2023 | £450,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 46
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 5
- 484 m
Perry Wood Primary and Nursery School
Academy sponsor led
- 864 m
The Lyppard Grange Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Worcester Sixth Form College
Academy 16-19 converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,447
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,131
- Anti social behaviour 244
- Criminal damage and arson 235
- Shoplifting 216
- Public order 143
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 45
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- WR5 1 residents
- 11,388
21 female, 24 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 0.4% 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
HARESFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
37 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1HG
ODS code M81022
1.2 km
ST MARTIN'S GATE SURGERY
TURNPIKE HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 37 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1EZ
ODS code M81035
1.2 km
ELBURY MOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
FAIRFIELD CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR4 9TX
ODS code M81017
1.4 km
SPRING GARDENS GROUP MEDICAL PRACTICE
PROVIDENCE STREET, SPRING GARDENS, WORCESTER, WR1 2BS
ODS code M81008
2.1 km
ALBANY HOUSE SURGERY
ALBANY TERRACE, WORCESTER, WR1 3DU
ODS code M81072
2.9 km
THORNELOE LODGE SURGERY
29 BARBOURNE ROAD, WORCESTER, WR1 1RU
ODS code M81037
3.0 km
BARBOURNE HEALTH CENTRE
BARBOURNE HOUSE, 44 DROITWICH ROAD, WORCESTER, WR3 7LH
ODS code M81049
3.1 km
SEVERN VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
HENWICK HALT MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 INGLES DRIVE, ST JOHNS, WORCESTER, WR2 5HL
ODS code M81006
3.4 km
ST JOHNS HOUSE SURGERY
ST JOHN'S HOUSE MED CTR, 299 BROMYARD ROAD, WORCESTER, WR2 5ER
ODS code M81063
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Linksview Crescent
BCT · Ronkswood
- 0.0 miles
Linksview Crescent
BCT · Ronkswood
- 0.1 miles
Ripon Road
BCT · Ronkswood
- 0.1 miles
Ripon Road
BCT · Ronkswood
- 0.1 miles
Leopard Rise
BCT · Ronkswood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Worcester 008A, 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
26,283 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 4
- 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
46 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 5 secondary schools. Perry Wood Primary and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 484 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,447 published events cover 12 months, averaging 203.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,131 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.