Schools
10 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. RGS Dodderhill is the nearest published school at 358 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WR9 8LY
Droitwich East · Wychavon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Droitwich East
- Local authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham
- Postcode district
- WR9
- Postcode sector
- WR9 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WR9 8LY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- WR
- Postcode district
- WR9
- Postcode sector
- WR9 8
- Latitude
- 52.268684
- Longitude
- -2.143557
- British National Grid easting
- 390,300
- British National Grid northing
- 263,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Wychavon · E07000238
- Electoral ward
- Droitwich East · E05015448
- Parish or community
- E04010386
- Westminster constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham · E14001203
- Output area
- E00165050
- Lower layer super output area
- Wychavon 003A · E01032359
- Middle layer super output area
- Wychavon 003 · E02006750
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
- 10
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 358 m
RGS Dodderhill
Other independent school
- 887 m
St Peter's Droitwich CofE Academy
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Witton Middle School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,326
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 389
- Shoplifting 370
- Anti social behaviour 122
- Criminal damage and arson 105
- Public order 98
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
CORBETT MEDICAL PRACTICE
36 CORBETT AVENUE, DROITWICH, WR9 7BE
ODS code M81091
699 m
SALTERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
DROITWICH MEDICAL CENTRE, OMBERSLEY STREET, DROITWICH, WR9 8RD
ODS code M81034
707 m
SPA MEDICAL PRACTICE
DROITWICH MEDICAL CENTRE, OMBERSLEY STREET EAST, DROITWICH, WR9 8RD
ODS code M81047
707 m
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Queen Street
BCT · Droitwich Spa
- 0.1 miles
Waitrose
BCT · Droitwich Spa
- 0.2 miles
Ludlow House
BCT · Droitwich Spa
- 0.2 miles
Ludlow House
BCT · Droitwich Spa
- 0.2 miles
Dodderhill Road
BCT · Hill End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wychavon 003A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,566 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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
1,326 published events cover 12 months, averaging 110.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 389 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.