Schools
6 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 2 secondary schools. Oldbury Wells School is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV15 5JB
Bridgnorth South & Alveley · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- WV15
- Postcode sector
- WV15 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV15 5JB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1981
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV15
- Postcode sector
- WV15 5
- Latitude
- 52.525163
- Longitude
- -2.414126
- British National Grid easting
- 372,000
- British National Grid northing
- 292,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Bridgnorth South & Alveley · E05016021
- Parish or community
- E04011228
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00146855
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 033C · E01028834
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 033 · E02006012
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 WV15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 6
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.0 km
Oldbury Wells School
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- 1.2 km
St. Mary's Bluecoat Church of England Primary School
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- 1.3 km
Castlefields Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 613
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 215
- Shoplifting 67
- Anti social behaviour 67
- Criminal damage and arson 59
- Public order 53
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WV15 5 residents
- 4,175
Age bands in WV15 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 25%
566 residents
355 residents
732 residents
1,119 residents
925 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
BRIDGNORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
NORTHGATE, BRIDGNORTH, WV16 4EN
ODS code M82004
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 6.7 miles
China Museum
BCT · Coalport
- 6.7 miles
China Museum
BCT · Coalport
- 7.1 miles
Shakespeare Way
BCT · Sutton Hill
- 7.1 miles
Shakespeare Way
BCT · Sutton Hill
- 7.1 miles
Southfield
BCT · Sutton Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 033C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,403 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
613 published events cover 12 months, averaging 51.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 215 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.