Schools
87 open schools are in scope, including 60 primary and 13 secondary schools. Thorns Primary School is the nearest published school at 491 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DY5 2FE
Quarry Bank & Dudley Wood · Dudley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DY5 2FE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- DY
- Postcode district
- DY5
- Postcode sector
- DY5 2
- Latitude
- 52.467405
- Longitude
- -2.107405
- British National Grid easting
- 392,800
- British National Grid northing
- 285,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Dudley · E08000027
- Electoral ward
- Quarry Bank & Dudley Wood · E05015920
- Parish or community
- E43000181
- Westminster constituency
- Halesowen · E14001261
- Output area
- E00049923
- Lower layer super output area
- Dudley 025D · E01009867
- Middle layer super output area
- Dudley 025 · E02002024
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 DY5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 87
- Primary
- 60
- Secondary
- 13
- 491 m
Thorns Primary School
Academy converter
- 568 m
The Old Park School
Community special school
- 650 m
Thorns Collegiate Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,160
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,186
- Shoplifting 592
- Criminal damage and arson 241
- Public order 196
- Vehicle crime 187
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DY5 2 residents
- 13,631
Age bands in DY5 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.8%
2,072 residents
1,476 residents
3,320 residents
3,674 residents
2,770 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
30
within 5 km straight-line
THORNS ROAD SURGERY
43 THORNS ROAD, QUARRY BANK, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 2JS
ODS code M87638
533 m
QUARRY BANK MEDICAL CENTRE
165 HIGH STREET, QUARRY BANK, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 2AE
ODS code M87027
602 m
THE LIMES SURGERY MEDICAL CENTRE
172 HIGH STREET, LYE, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 8LL
ODS code M87019
1.2 km
CHAPEL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
87 CHAPEL STREET, LYE, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 8BT
ODS code M87628
1.3 km
PEDMORE MEDICAL PRACTICE
22 PEDMORE ROAD, LYE, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 8DJ
ODS code M87030
1.4 km
QUINCY RISE SURGERY
30 SANDRINGHAM WAY, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 3JR
ODS code M87618
1.5 km
DUDLEY WOOD SURGERY
10 QUARRY ROAD, DUDLEY WOOD, DUDLEY, DY2 0EF
ODS code Y02212
1.5 km
HIGH OAK SURGERY
B/HILL H & S CARE CENTRE, VENTURE WAY, PENSNETT, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 1RU
ODS code Y02653
1.7 km
THE WATERFRONT SURGERY
BRIERLEY HILL HSCC, VENTURE WAY, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 1RU
ODS code M87010
1.7 km
AW SURGERIES
ALBION HOUSE, ALBION STREET, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 3EE
ODS code M87009
1.9 km
HADEN VALE SURGERY
50 BARRS ROAD, WARLEY, CRADLEY HEATH, B64 7HG
ODS code M88043
2.3 km
THREE VILLAGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHSCC, JOHN CORBETT DRIVE, AMBLECOTE, STOURBRIDGE, DY8 4HZ
ODS code M87005
2.9 km
WYCHBURY MEDICAL GROUP
121 OAKFIELD ROAD, WOLLESCOTE, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 9DS
ODS code M87024
2.9 km
CHURCH VIEW SURGERY
239 HALESOWEN ROAD, WARLEY, CRADLEY HEATH, B64 6JE
ODS code M88030
2.9 km
OLD HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
PRIEST HOUSE, PRIEST STREET, CRADLEY HEATH, B64 6JN
ODS code M88016
3.0 km
ANCHOR MEDICAL PRACTICE
HALESOWEN ROAD, NETHERTON, DUDLEY, DY2 9PU
ODS code M87028
3.0 km
LINKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
NETHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, HALESOWEN ROAD, NETHERTON, DUDLEY, DY2 9PU
ODS code M87617
3.0 km
ALEXANDRA MEDICAL CENTRE
1 SHORT STREET, HALESOWEN, B63 3UH
ODS code M87623
3.4 km
MEADOWBROOK SURGERY
4 MEADOWBROOK ROAD, HALESOWEN, B63 1AB
ODS code M87001
3.4 km
LION HEALTH
2 LOWNDES ROAD, STOURBRIDGE, DY8 3SS
ODS code M87011
3.5 km
Showing 20 of 30 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
New Street
BCT · Netherend
- 0.2 miles
New Street
BCT · Netherend
- 0.2 miles
East Street
BCT · Quarry Bank
- 0.2 miles
East Street
BCT · Quarry Bank
- 0.2 miles
Stour Hill
BCT · Netherend
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dudley 025D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,327 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,160 published events cover 12 months, averaging 263.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,186 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.