Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 2 secondary schools. Oldbury Wells School is the nearest published school at 490 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV16 4BA
Bridgnorth Castle · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bridgnorth Castle
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- South Shropshire
- Postcode district
- WV16
- Postcode sector
- WV16 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV16 4BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV16
- Postcode sector
- WV16 4
- Latitude
- 52.532828
- Longitude
- -2.420302
- British National Grid easting
- 371,586
- British National Grid northing
- 292,855
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Bridgnorth Castle · E05016019
- Parish or community
- E04011228
- Westminster constituency
- South Shropshire · E14001493
- Output area
- E00146837
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 031A · E01028830
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 031 · E02006011
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 WV16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 2
- 490 m
Oldbury Wells School
Academy converter
- 528 m
Bridgnorth Endowed School
Academy converter
- 734 m
St John's Catholic Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 852
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 316
- Anti social behaviour 91
- Criminal damage and arson 91
- Shoplifting 70
- Public order 68
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WV16 4 residents
- 6,635
Age bands in WV16 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 31.2%
773 residents
557 residents
1,257 residents
2,041 residents
2,098 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.
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
1
within 5 km
BRIDGNORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
NORTHGATE, BRIDGNORTH, WV16 4EN
ODS code M82004
591 m
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
- 6.1 miles
China Museum
BCT · Coalport
- 6.1 miles
China Museum
BCT · Coalport
- 6.5 miles
Shakespeare Way
BCT · Sutton Hill
- 6.5 miles
Shakespeare Way
BCT · Sutton Hill
- 6.5 miles
Southfield
BCT · Sutton Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 031A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,755 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
852 published events cover 12 months, averaging 71 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 316 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.