Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Norton College is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WR5 2RU
Drakes Broughton, Norton & Whittington · Wychavon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham
- Postcode district
- WR5
- Postcode sector
- WR5 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WR5 2RU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WR
- Postcode district
- WR5
- Postcode sector
- WR5 2
- Latitude
- 52.168573
- Longitude
- -2.164978
- British National Grid easting
- 388,813
- British National Grid northing
- 252,268
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.2 km
Norton College
Other independent special school
- 1.3 km
Whittington CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.9 km
Abigail's Place
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 70
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 32
- Other theft 9
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Burglary 6
- Anti social behaviour 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 6
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- WR5 2 residents
- 9,854
2 female, 4 male
Age bands in WR5 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.7%
1,787 residents
1,087 residents
2,511 residents
2,719 residents
1,748 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WR5 2 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
4
within 5 km
HARESFIELD HOUSE SURGERY
37 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1HG
ODS code M81022
3.9 km
ST MARTIN'S GATE SURGERY
TURNPIKE HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE, 37 NEWTOWN ROAD, WORCESTER, WR5 1EZ
ODS code M81035
4.0 km
SPRING GARDENS GROUP MEDICAL PRACTICE
PROVIDENCE STREET, SPRING GARDENS, WORCESTER, WR1 2BS
ODS code M81008
4.4 km
ELBURY MOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
FAIRFIELD CLOSE, WORCESTER, WR4 9TX
ODS code M81017
4.6 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
High Park
BCT · Whittington
- 0.3 miles
High Park
BCT · Whittington
- 0.4 miles
Firs Cottages Layby
BCT · Whittington
- 0.5 miles
Motorway Northbound
BCT · Whittington
- 0.5 miles
Motorway Southbound
BCT · Whittington
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.
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
- 0
- 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
70 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 32 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.