Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 11 primary and 1 secondary schools. Chawson First School is the nearest published school at 324 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WR9 8SJ
Droitwich South West · Wychavon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Droitwich
- 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 8SJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WR
- Postcode district
- WR9
- Postcode sector
- WR9 8
- Latitude
- 52.260070
- Longitude
- -2.165082
- British National Grid easting
- 388,829
- British National Grid northing
- 262,445
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
- E00165088
- Lower layer super output area
- Wychavon 004C · E01032365
- 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
Property
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 13, The Tyning, Droitwich, WR9 8SJ | 30 April 2015 | £125,000 |
| 7, The Tyning, Droitwich, WR9 8SJ | 12 November 2013 | £105,000 |
| 7, The Tyning, Droitwich, WR9 8SJ | 5 October 2007 | £135,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 11
- Secondary
- 1
- 324 m
Chawson First School
Community school
- 463 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 517 m
Witton Middle School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,434
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 470
- Shoplifting 362
- Anti social behaviour 158
- Criminal damage and arson 135
- Public order 63
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- WR9 8 residents
- 10,991
13 female, 11 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WR9 8 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+
- 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
4
within 5 km
SALTERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
DROITWICH MEDICAL CENTRE, OMBERSLEY STREET, DROITWICH, WR9 8RD
ODS code M81034
1.1 km
SPA MEDICAL PRACTICE
DROITWICH MEDICAL CENTRE, OMBERSLEY STREET EAST, DROITWICH, WR9 8RD
ODS code M81047
1.1 km
CORBETT MEDICAL PRACTICE
36 CORBETT AVENUE, DROITWICH, WR9 7BE
ODS code M81091
1.2 km
OMBERSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
MAIN ROAD, OMBERSLEY, DROITWICH, WR9 0EL
ODS code M81011
4.7 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bower Hill
BCT · Chawson
- 0.1 miles
Bower Hill
BCT · Chawson
- 0.1 miles
Long Sling
BCT · Chawson
- 0.1 miles
Long Sling
BCT · Chawson
- 0.1 miles
Valley Way
BCT · Westacre
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wychavon 004C, 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
9,634 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 3
- 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
1,434 published events cover 12 months, averaging 119.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 470 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.