Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 4 secondary schools. The Polesworth School is the nearest published school at 336 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B78 1DG
Polesworth West · North Warwickshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Polesworth West
- Local authority
- North Warwickshire
- Constituency
- North Warwickshire and Bedworth
- Postcode district
- B78
- Postcode sector
- B78 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B78 1DG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B78
- Postcode sector
- B78 1
- Latitude
- 52.612229
- Longitude
- -1.616368
- British National Grid easting
- 426,073
- British National Grid northing
- 301,673
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- North Warwickshire · E07000218
- Electoral ward
- Polesworth West · E05007472
- Parish or community
- E04009654
- Westminster constituency
- North Warwickshire and Bedworth · E14001400
- Output area
- E00158245
- Lower layer super output area
- North Warwickshire 001E · E01031039
- Middle layer super output area
- North Warwickshire 001 · E02006468
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 B78
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 31
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 4
- 336 m
The Polesworth School
Academy converter
- 388 m
Birchwood Primary School
Academy converter
- 890 m
Dordon Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 608
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 239
- Anti social behaviour 123
- Vehicle crime 45
- Public order 41
- Other theft 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B78 1 residents
- 10,390
Age bands in B78 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.3%
1,755 residents
1,106 residents
2,658 residents
2,825 residents
2,126 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
DORDON & POLESWORTH GROUP PRACTICE
162 LONG STREET, DORDON, TAMWORTH, B78 1QA
ODS code M84007
923 m
DR KHARE'S SURGERY
STONEYDELPH MEDICAL CTR, ELLERBECK, STONYDELPH, TAMWORTH, B77 4JA
ODS code M83113
2.4 km
HEATHVIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
CALEDONIAN, TAMWORTH, B77 2ED
ODS code M83110
3.4 km
TRI-LINKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRI-LINKS, 130 TAMWORTH ROAD, AMINGTON, TAMWORTH, B77 3BZ
ODS code M83693
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Morris Hill
BCT · Dordon
- 0.1 miles
Morris Hill
BCT · Dordon
- 0.1 miles
Polesworth School
BCT · Dordon
- 0.2 miles
Fairfields Hill
BCT · Dordon
- 0.2 miles
Potters Lane
BCT · Polesworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Warwickshire 001E, 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
26,102 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
608 published events cover 12 months, averaging 50.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 239 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.