Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Westacre Middle School is the nearest published school at 473 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WR9 8JA
Droitwich South West · Wychavon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Droitwich South West
- Local authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham
- Postcode district
- WR9
- Postcode sector
- WR9 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WR9 8JA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- WR
- Postcode district
- WR9
- Postcode sector
- WR9 8
- Latitude
- 52.267768
- Longitude
- -2.156743
- British National Grid easting
- 389,400
- British National Grid northing
- 263,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Wychavon · E07000238
- Electoral ward
- Droitwich South West · E05015450
- Parish or community
- E04010386
- Westminster constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham · E14001203
- Output area
- E00165033
- Lower layer super output area
- Wychavon 004B · E01032358
- Middle layer super output area
- Wychavon 004 · E02006751
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 WR9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 473 m
Westacre Middle School
Community school
- 745 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 771 m
Droitwich Spa High School and Sixth Form Centre
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,716
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 592
- Shoplifting 383
- Anti social behaviour 186
- Criminal damage and arson 171
- Public order 86
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WR9 8 residents
- 10,991
Age bands in WR9 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.2%
1,651 residents
1,113 residents
2,413 residents
3,143 residents
3,110 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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
SALTERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
DROITWICH MEDICAL CENTRE, OMBERSLEY STREET, DROITWICH, WR9 8RD
ODS code M81034
243 m
SPA MEDICAL PRACTICE
DROITWICH MEDICAL CENTRE, OMBERSLEY STREET EAST, DROITWICH, WR9 8RD
ODS code M81047
243 m
CORBETT MEDICAL PRACTICE
36 CORBETT AVENUE, DROITWICH, WR9 7BE
ODS code M81091
738 m
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Droitwich Spa Railway Station
BCT · Droitwich Spa
- 0.0 miles
Droitwich Spa Railway Station
BCT · Droitwich Spa
- 0.1 miles
Droitwich Spa Rail Station
RLY · Droitwich Spa
- 0.1 miles
Droitwich Spa Rail Station
RSE · Droitwich Spa
- 0.1 miles
Droitwich Spa Rail Station
RSE · Droitwich Spa
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wychavon 004B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,553 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
Recorded crime
1,716 published events cover 12 months, averaging 143 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 592 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.