Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 2 secondary schools. Oldbury Wells School is the nearest published school at 167 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV16 5YR
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 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV16 5YR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2000
- Terminated
- 1 January 2001
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV16
- Postcode sector
- WV16 5
- Latitude
- 52.529375
- Longitude
- -2.427845
- British National Grid easting
- 371,072
- British National Grid northing
- 292,474
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
- E00146841
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 031B · E01028831
- 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
- 167 m
Oldbury Wells School
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- 226 m
Castlefields Primary School
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- 1.0 km
Bridgnorth Endowed School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 821
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 321
- Anti social behaviour 90
- Criminal damage and arson 87
- Public order 66
- Shoplifting 65
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WV16 5 residents
- 3,729
Age bands in WV16 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.4%
575 residents
369 residents
669 residents
1,038 residents
1,002 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
1.0 km
Nearby transport
- 6.3 miles
China Museum
BCT · Coalport
- 6.3 miles
China Museum
BCT · Coalport
- 6.5 miles
St Marys Close
BCT · Jackfield
- 6.6 miles
St Marys Close
BCT · Jackfield
- 6.7 miles
Shakespeare Way
BCT · Sutton Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 031B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,845 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
821 published events cover 12 months, averaging 68.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 321 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.