Schools
60 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 10 secondary schools. Brook Primary School is the nearest published school at 634 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DY8 1YJ
Wordsley North · Dudley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wordsley North
- Local authority
- Dudley
- Constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
- Postcode district
- DY8
- Postcode sector
- DY8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DY8 1YJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- DY
- Postcode district
- DY8
- Postcode sector
- DY8 1
- Latitude
- 52.477237
- Longitude
- -2.157488
- British National Grid easting
- 389,400
- British National Grid northing
- 286,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Dudley · E08000027
- Electoral ward
- Wordsley North · E05015926
- Parish or community
- E43000181
- Westminster constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire · E14001316
- Output area
- E00050139
- Lower layer super output area
- Dudley 021E · E01009915
- Middle layer super output area
- Dudley 021 · E02002020
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 DY8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 60
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 10
- 634 m
Brook Primary School
Community school
- 647 m
The Wordsley School
Academy converter
- 829 m
Ashwood Park Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,748
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 826
- Shoplifting 193
- Vehicle crime 136
- Criminal damage and arson 128
- Other theft 104
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DY8 1 residents
- 6,003
Age bands in DY8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.4%
856 residents
649 residents
1,511 residents
1,430 residents
1,140 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
19
within 5 km straight-line
WORDSLEY GREEN HEALTH CENTRE
WORDSLEY GREEN, WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE, DY8 5PD
ODS code M87023
617 m
RANGEWAYS ROAD SURGERY
33 RANGEWAYS ROAD, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 8PN
ODS code M87041
1.2 km
THREE VILLAGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHSCC, JOHN CORBETT DRIVE, AMBLECOTE, STOURBRIDGE, DY8 4HZ
ODS code M87005
1.5 km
LION HEALTH
2 LOWNDES ROAD, STOURBRIDGE, DY8 3SS
ODS code M87011
1.8 km
QUINCY RISE SURGERY
30 SANDRINGHAM WAY, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 3JR
ODS code M87618
2.2 km
KINGSWINFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
KINGSWINFORD HEALTH CENTRE, STANDHILLS ROAD, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 8DN
ODS code M87008
2.3 km
THE SUMMERHILL SURGERY
SUMMERHILL, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 9JG
ODS code M87018
2.4 km
AW SURGERIES
ALBION HOUSE, ALBION STREET, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 3EE
ODS code M87009
2.4 km
MOSS GROVE SURGERY
15 MOSS GROVE, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 9HS
ODS code M87003
2.5 km
HIGH OAK SURGERY
B/HILL H & S CARE CENTRE, VENTURE WAY, PENSNETT, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 1RU
ODS code Y02653
2.7 km
THE WATERFRONT SURGERY
BRIERLEY HILL HSCC, VENTURE WAY, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 1RU
ODS code M87010
2.7 km
THORNS ROAD SURGERY
43 THORNS ROAD, QUARRY BANK, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 2JS
ODS code M87638
3.3 km
PEDMORE MEDICAL PRACTICE
22 PEDMORE ROAD, LYE, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 8DJ
ODS code M87030
3.5 km
CHAPEL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
87 CHAPEL STREET, LYE, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 8BT
ODS code M87628
3.7 km
THE LIMES SURGERY MEDICAL CENTRE
172 HIGH STREET, LYE, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 8LL
ODS code M87019
3.7 km
QUARRY BANK MEDICAL CENTRE
165 HIGH STREET, QUARRY BANK, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 2AE
ODS code M87027
3.8 km
KEELINGE HOUSE
176 STOURBRIDGE ROAD, DUDLEY, DY1 2ER
ODS code M87601
4.3 km
DUDLEY WOOD SURGERY
10 QUARRY ROAD, DUDLEY WOOD, DUDLEY, DY2 0EF
ODS code Y02212
4.4 km
LOWER GORNAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWER GORNAL HEALTH CENTRE, BULL STREET, GORNAL WOOD, DUDLEY, DY3 2NQ
ODS code M87015
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Brierley Hill Road
BCT · Audnam
- 0.1 miles
Brierley Hill Road
BCT · Audnam
- 0.1 miles
High Street
BCT · Buckpool
- 0.1 miles
High Street
BCT · Buckpool
- 0.1 miles
Glass Museums
BCT · Audnam
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dudley 021E, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,807 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
1,748 published events cover 12 months, averaging 145.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 826 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.