Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 0 secondary schools. Birchfield School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV8 1QX
Shifnal Rural · Shropshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Shifnal Rural
- Local authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- The Wrekin
- Postcode district
- WV8
- Postcode sector
- WV8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV8 1QX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV8
- Postcode sector
- WV8 1
- Latitude
- 52.658312
- Longitude
- -2.246565
- British National Grid easting
- 383,419
- British National Grid northing
- 306,759
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Shropshire · E06000051
- Electoral ward
- Shifnal Rural · E05016068
- Parish or community
- E04013496
- Westminster constituency
- The Wrekin · E14001543
- Output area
- E00146910
- Lower layer super output area
- Shropshire 027D · E01028845
- Middle layer super output area
- Shropshire 027 · E02006009
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 WV8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.3 km
Birchfield School
Other independent school
- 2.7 km
St John's CofE First School
Academy converter
- 2.8 km
The Gables Learning Centre
Other independent special school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- WV8 1 residents
- 11,885
3 female, 1 male
Age bands in WV8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.8%
2,112 residents
1,159 residents
2,794 residents
3,129 residents
2,563 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WV8 1 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
ALBRIGHTON MEDICAL PRACT
SHAW LANE, ALBRIGHTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV7 3DT
ODS code M82021
3.0 km
BREWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
KIDDEMORE GREEN ROAD, BREWOOD, STAFFORD, ST19 9BQ
ODS code M83009
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 1.3 miles
Cross Guns Inn PH
BCT · Codsall Wood
- 1.3 miles
Cross Guns Inn PH
BCT · Codsall Wood
- 1.7 miles
The Royal Oak PH
BCT · Bishops Wood
- 1.7 miles
Albrighton Rail Station
RLY · Albrighton
- 1.7 miles
Ivetsey Bank Road
BCT · Bishops Wood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Shropshire 027D, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,833 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 0
- 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.