Schools
74 open schools are in scope, including 53 primary and 11 secondary schools. Hawbush Primary School is the nearest published school at 331 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DY5 3PF
Brierley Hill & Wordsley South · Dudley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Dudley
- Constituency
- Stourbridge
- Postcode district
- DY5
- Postcode sector
- DY5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DY5 3PF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DY
- Postcode district
- DY5
- Postcode sector
- DY5 3
- Latitude
- 52.481032
- Longitude
- -2.142630
- British National Grid easting
- 390,410
- British National Grid northing
- 287,020
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Dudley · E08000027
- Electoral ward
- Brierley Hill & Wordsley South · E05015905
- Parish or community
- E43000181
- Westminster constituency
- Stourbridge · E14001524
- Output area
- E00049292
- Lower layer super output area
- Dudley 023D · E01009743
- Middle layer super output area
- Dudley 023 · E02002022
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
- 74
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 11
- 331 m
Hawbush Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 487 m
The Wordsley School
Academy converter
- 663 m
Dingle Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,840
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,245
- Shoplifting 385
- Criminal damage and arson 211
- Vehicle crime 196
- Burglary 170
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- DY5 3 residents
- 13,622
5 female, 6 male
Age bands in DY5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.4%
2,654 residents
1,655 residents
3,683 residents
3,598 residents
2,102 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DY5 3 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
29
within 5 km
RANGEWAYS ROAD SURGERY
33 RANGEWAYS ROAD, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 8PN
ODS code M87041
847 m
AW SURGERIES
ALBION HOUSE, ALBION STREET, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 3EE
ODS code M87009
1.4 km
WORDSLEY GREEN HEALTH CENTRE
WORDSLEY GREEN, WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE, DY8 5PD
ODS code M87023
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
QUINCY RISE SURGERY
30 SANDRINGHAM WAY, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 3JR
ODS code M87618
1.8 km
THREE VILLAGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHSCC, JOHN CORBETT DRIVE, AMBLECOTE, STOURBRIDGE, DY8 4HZ
ODS code M87005
1.9 km
KINGSWINFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
KINGSWINFORD HEALTH CENTRE, STANDHILLS ROAD, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 8DN
ODS code M87008
2.3 km
LION HEALTH
2 LOWNDES ROAD, STOURBRIDGE, DY8 3SS
ODS code M87011
2.4 km
THORNS ROAD SURGERY
43 THORNS ROAD, QUARRY BANK, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 2JS
ODS code M87638
2.5 km
THE SUMMERHILL SURGERY
SUMMERHILL, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 9JG
ODS code M87018
2.6 km
MOSS GROVE SURGERY
15 MOSS GROVE, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 9HS
ODS code M87003
2.7 km
QUARRY BANK MEDICAL CENTRE
165 HIGH STREET, QUARRY BANK, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 2AE
ODS code M87027
2.9 km
PEDMORE MEDICAL PRACTICE
22 PEDMORE ROAD, LYE, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 8DJ
ODS code M87030
3.1 km
KEELINGE HOUSE
176 STOURBRIDGE ROAD, DUDLEY, DY1 2ER
ODS code M87601
3.3 km
THE LIMES SURGERY MEDICAL CENTRE
172 HIGH STREET, LYE, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 8LL
ODS code M87019
3.3 km
CHAPEL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
87 CHAPEL STREET, LYE, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 8BT
ODS code M87628
3.3 km
DUDLEY WOOD SURGERY
10 QUARRY ROAD, DUDLEY WOOD, DUDLEY, DY2 0EF
ODS code Y02212
3.5 km
LOWER GORNAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWER GORNAL HEALTH CENTRE, BULL STREET, GORNAL WOOD, DUDLEY, DY3 2NQ
ODS code M87015
3.9 km
CASTLE MEADOWS SURGERY
100 MILKING BANK, DUDLEY, DY1 2TY
ODS code M87620
4.2 km
Showing 20 of 29 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
Nagersfield Road
BCT · Buckpool
- 0.1 miles
Charlton Street
BCT · Buckpool
- 0.1 miles
Wells Road
BCT · Buckpool
- 0.1 miles
Bushway Close
BCT · Silver End
- 0.2 miles
Bushway Close
BCT · Silver End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dudley 023D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,123 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,840 published events cover 12 months, averaging 236.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,245 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.