WR8 9DU

Kempsey · Malvern Hills · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Kempsey
Local authority: Malvern Hills
Constituency: West Worcestershire
Postcode district: WR8
Postcode sector: WR8 9

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
WR8 9ES	686 m
WR8 9BY	840 m
WR8 9DW	850 m
WR8 9AZ	967 m
WR8 9AT	1.5 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: WR8 9DU
Status: Terminated
Introduced: 1 June 1981
Terminated: 1 November 2006
Postcode area: WR
Postcode district: WR8
Postcode sector: WR8 9
Latitude: 52.098354
Longitude: -2.153753
British National Grid easting: 389,564
British National Grid northing: 244,456

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: West Midlands · E12000005
Local authority district: Malvern Hills · E07000235
Electoral ward: Kempsey · E05015387
Parish or community: E04010297
Westminster constituency: West Worcestershire · E14001579
Output area: E00164202
Lower layer super output area: Malvern Hills 008A · E01032191
Middle layer super output area: Malvern Hills 008 · E02006717

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

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Open schools: 2
Primary: 2
Secondary: 0

Defford-Cum-Besford CofE School

Voluntary controlled school
2.5 km
Eckington CofE First School

Voluntary controlled school
4.2 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 2
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Other crime 1
Violence and sexual offences 1

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%

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+: 0%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 0%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 0%
Gigabit-capable: 0%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 100%
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.

Nearby transport

Besford Court

BCT · Besford
1.2 miles
Besford Court

BCT · Besford
1.2 miles
Besford Turn

BCT · Besford
1.2 miles
Besford Turn

BCT · Besford
1.2 miles
Church

BCT · Defford
1.5 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Malvern Hills 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

7 of 10

Overall England rank

22,151 of 33,755

Income: 7 of 10
Employment: 8 of 10
Education and skills: 7 of 10
Health and disability: 8 of 10
Crime: 7 of 10
Housing and services: 2 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

2 open schools are in scope, including 2 primary and 0 secondary schools. Defford-Cum-Besford CofE School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other crime with 1 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.