Schools
89 open schools are in scope, including 58 primary and 13 secondary schools. Roberts Primary School is the nearest published school at 260 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DY3 2DS
Gornal · Dudley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DY3 2DS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DY
- Postcode district
- DY3
- Postcode sector
- DY3 2
- Latitude
- 52.518843
- Longitude
- -2.119483
- British National Grid easting
- 391,989
- British National Grid northing
- 291,223
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Dudley · E08000027
- Electoral ward
- Gornal · E05015910
- Parish or community
- E43000181
- Westminster constituency
- Dudley · E14001204
- Output area
- E00049499
- Lower layer super output area
- Dudley 007A · E01009781
- Middle layer super output area
- Dudley 007 · E02002006
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 DY3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 89
- Primary
- 58
- Secondary
- 13
- 260 m
Roberts Primary School
Community school
- 570 m
Red Hall Primary School
Community school
- 594 m
Milking Bank Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,467
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,091
- Shoplifting 261
- Criminal damage and arson 231
- Vehicle crime 215
- Other theft 134
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 26
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- DY3 2 residents
- 12,131
14 female, 12 male
Age bands in DY3 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 20%
2,049 residents
1,237 residents
2,963 residents
3,193 residents
2,367 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DY3 2 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+
- 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
32
within 5 km
CASTLE MEADOWS SURGERY
100 MILKING BANK, DUDLEY, DY1 2TY
ODS code M87620
354 m
LOWER GORNAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWER GORNAL HEALTH CENTRE, BULL STREET, GORNAL WOOD, DUDLEY, DY3 2NQ
ODS code M87015
914 m
TANDON MEDICAL CENTRE (ORAM & PARTNERS)
KENT STREET, DUDLEY, DY3 1UX
ODS code M87013
1.0 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL PRACTICE1
MALTHOUSE DRIVE, DUDLEY, DY1 2BY
ODS code M87612
1.6 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL PRACTICE2
MALTHOUSE DRIVE, DUDLEY, DY1 2BY
ODS code M87026
1.6 km
EVE HILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
29-53 HIMLEY ROAD, DUDLEY, DY1 2QD
ODS code M87006
1.7 km
THE GREENS HEALTH CENTRE
100 MAPLE GREEN, DUDLEY, DY1 3QZ
ODS code M87012
1.8 km
THE RIDGEWAY SURGERY
175 THE RIDGEWAY, SEDGLEY, DUDLEY, DY3 3UH
ODS code M87007
1.9 km
KEELINGE HOUSE
176 STOURBRIDGE ROAD, DUDLEY, DY1 2ER
ODS code M87601
2.1 km
STEPPINGSTONES MEDICAL PRACTICE
STAFFORD STREET, DUDLEY, DY1 1RT
ODS code M87017
2.2 km
LIMESTONE SURGERY
CROSS STREET, DUDLEY, DY1 1RN
ODS code M87025
2.3 km
WOODSETTON MEDICAL CENTRE
40 BOURNE STREET, WOODSETTON, DUDLEY, DY3 1AF
ODS code M87016
2.5 km
CENTRAL CLINIC
HALL STREET, DUDLEY, DY2 7BX
ODS code M87605
3.2 km
BEAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 BEAN ROAD, DUDLEY, DY2 8TH
ODS code M87036
3.3 km
NORTHWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
7-8 ALDERWOOD PRECINCT, SEDGLEY, DUDLEY, DY3 3QY
ODS code M87037
3.3 km
BLACK COUNTRY FAMILY PRACTICE
NEPTUNE HEALTH PARK, SEDGLEY ROAD WEST, TIPTON, DY4 8PX
ODS code M88013
3.5 km
COSELEY MEDICAL CENTRE
32-34 AVENUE ROAD, COSELEY, BILSTON, WV14 9DJ
ODS code M87021
3.5 km
KINGSWINFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
KINGSWINFORD HEALTH CENTRE, STANDHILLS ROAD, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 8DN
ODS code M87008
3.6 km
RANGEWAYS ROAD SURGERY
33 RANGEWAYS ROAD, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 8PN
ODS code M87041
4.1 km
MOSS GROVE SURGERY
15 MOSS GROVE, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 9HS
ODS code M87003
4.1 km
Showing 20 of 32 matching practices.
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
- 0.1 miles
Humphrey Street
BCT · Lower Gornal
- 0.1 miles
Peak Drive
BCT · Milking Bank
- 0.1 miles
Peak Drive
BCT · Milking Bank
- 0.1 miles
Humphrey Street
BCT · Lower Gornal
- 0.1 miles
Grosvenor Road
BCT · Milking Bank
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dudley 007A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,415 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,467 published events cover 12 months, averaging 205.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,091 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.