Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. Twyning School is the nearest published school at 1.2 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WR8 9AF
Eckington · Wychavon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Eckington
- Local authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- West Worcestershire
- Postcode district
- WR8
- Postcode sector
- WR8 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WR8 9AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2013
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WR
- Postcode district
- WR8
- Postcode sector
- WR8 9
- Latitude
- 52.045773
- Longitude
- -2.141236
- British National Grid easting
- 390,410
- British National Grid northing
- 238,606
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Wychavon · E07000238
- Electoral ward
- Eckington · E05015452
- Parish or community
- E04010435
- Westminster constituency
- West Worcestershire · E14001579
- Output area
- E00165117
- Lower layer super output area
- Wychavon 019C · E01032372
- Middle layer super output area
- Wychavon 019 · E02006766
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 WR8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.9 km
Twyning School
Community school
- 2.4 km
Bredon Hancock's Endowed CofE First School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.4 km
Eckington CofE First School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 20
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Drugs 4
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Robbery 2
- Burglary 2
- Possession of weapons 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WR8 9 residents
- 2,533
Age bands in WR8 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 14.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 36.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.9%
336 residents
244 residents
413 residents
999 residents
772 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
1
within 5 km
BREDON HILL SURGERY
THE SURGERY, MAIN ROAD, BREDON, TEWKESBURY, GL20 7QN
ODS code M81007
3.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
War Memorial
BCT · Upper Strensham
- 1.0 miles
The Mayalls
BCT · Twyning
- 1.0 miles
Nut Orchard Lane
BCT · Twyning
- 1.1 miles
Hill End Close
BCT · Twyning
- 1.1 miles
Hill End School Stop
BCT · Twyning
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wychavon 019C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,449 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
20 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Drugs with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.