Property market
The five-year median is £580,000 from 1 recorded sale in WR8 9BA. 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.
WR8 9BA
Eckington · Wychavon · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WR8 9BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WR
- Postcode district
- WR8
- Postcode sector
- WR8 9
- Latitude
- 52.085357
- Longitude
- -2.118931
- British National Grid easting
- 391,947
- British National Grid northing
- 243,006
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Wychavon · E07000238
- Electoral ward
- Eckington · E05015452
- Parish or community
- E04010381
- Westminster constituency
- West Worcestershire · E14001579
- Output area
- E00165112
- Lower layer super output area
- Wychavon 019D · E01032373
- 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
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Georgian House, Upton Road, Defford, Worcester, WR8 9BA | 26 September 2022 | £580,000 |
| Spring Bank House, Upton Road, Defford, Worcester, WR8 9BA | 14 February 2020 | £505,000 |
| Bredon House, Upton Road, Defford, Worcester, WR8 9BA | 29 June 2016 | £445,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 383 m
Defford-Cum-Besford CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.7 km
Eckington CofE First School
Voluntary controlled school
- 3.8 km
Abbey Park Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 33
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Other theft 8
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Burglary 3
- Public order 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- WR8 9 residents
- 2,533
12 female, 12 male
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
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WR8 9 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+
- 16.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 16.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 16.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 25%
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
2
within 5 km
ABBOTTSWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
DEFFORD ROAD, PERSHORE, WR10 1HZ
ODS code M81046
3.8 km
PERSHORE MEDICAL PRACTICE
QUEEN ELIZABETH HOUSE, QUEEN ELIZABETH DRIVE, PERSHORE, WR10 1PX
ODS code M81074
4.3 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
- 0.2 miles
Church
BCT · Defford
- 0.2 miles
Church
BCT · Defford
- 0.2 miles
Defford Arms Inn
BCT · Defford
- 0.2 miles
Defford Arms
BCT · Defford
- 0.4 miles
Woodmancote Turn
BCT · Defford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wychavon 019D, 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
25,684 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
5 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. Defford-Cum-Besford CofE School is the nearest published school at 383 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
33 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.