Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 9 secondary schools. Gig Mill Primary School is the nearest published school at 459 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DY8 3DS
Norton · Dudley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Stourbridge
- Ward
- Norton
- Local authority
- Dudley
- Constituency
- Stourbridge
- Postcode district
- DY8
- Postcode sector
- DY8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DY8 3DS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DY
- Postcode district
- DY8
- Postcode sector
- DY8 3
- Latitude
- 52.445852
- Longitude
- -2.165233
- British National Grid easting
- 388,866
- British National Grid northing
- 283,110
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Dudley · E08000027
- Electoral ward
- Norton · E05015918
- Parish or community
- E43000181
- Westminster constituency
- Stourbridge · E14001524
- Output area
- E00049828
- Lower layer super output area
- Dudley 041B · E01009846
- Middle layer super output area
- Dudley 041 · E02002040
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Maynard Avenue, Stourbridge, DY8 3DS | 31 October 2005 | £112,000 |
| 7, Maynard Avenue, Stourbridge, DY8 3DS | 15 October 1999 | £67,995 |
| 7, Maynard Avenue, Stourbridge, DY8 3DS | 27 September 1995 | £60,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 9
- 459 m
Gig Mill Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
St Joseph's RC Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Elmfield Rudolf Steiner School Limited
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 719
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 305
- Shoplifting 89
- Vehicle crime 85
- Criminal damage and arson 49
- Burglary 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- DY8 3 residents
- 12,207
6 female, 10 male
Age bands in DY8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.6%
1,889 residents
1,132 residents
2,861 residents
3,555 residents
3,078 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DY8 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
12
within 5 km
LION HEALTH
2 LOWNDES ROAD, STOURBRIDGE, DY8 3SS
ODS code M87011
1.8 km
THREE VILLAGES MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHSCC, JOHN CORBETT DRIVE, AMBLECOTE, STOURBRIDGE, DY8 4HZ
ODS code M87005
2.4 km
HAGLEY SURGERY
1 VICTORIA PASSAGE, HAGLEY, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 0NH
ODS code M81027
3.1 km
QUINCY RISE SURGERY
30 SANDRINGHAM WAY, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 3JR
ODS code M87618
3.4 km
PEDMORE MEDICAL PRACTICE
22 PEDMORE ROAD, LYE, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 8DJ
ODS code M87030
3.4 km
CHAPEL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
87 CHAPEL STREET, LYE, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 8BT
ODS code M87628
3.6 km
THE LIMES SURGERY MEDICAL CENTRE
172 HIGH STREET, LYE, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 8LL
ODS code M87019
3.7 km
WYCHBURY MEDICAL GROUP
121 OAKFIELD ROAD, WOLLESCOTE, STOURBRIDGE, DY9 9DS
ODS code M87024
3.7 km
WORDSLEY GREEN HEALTH CENTRE
WORDSLEY GREEN, WORDSLEY, STOURBRIDGE, DY8 5PD
ODS code M87023
3.9 km
RANGEWAYS ROAD SURGERY
33 RANGEWAYS ROAD, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 8PN
ODS code M87041
4.7 km
THORNS ROAD SURGERY
43 THORNS ROAD, QUARRY BANK, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 2JS
ODS code M87638
4.8 km
AW SURGERIES
ALBION HOUSE, ALBION STREET, BRIERLEY HILL, DY5 3EE
ODS code M87009
5.0 km
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Whittington Road
BCT · Norton
- 0.1 miles
Heath Farm Road
BCT · Norton
- 0.1 miles
Windsor Road
BCT · Norton
- 0.1 miles
Heath Farm Road
BCT · Norton
- 0.1 miles
Windsor Road
BCT · Norton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Dudley 041B, 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
24,917 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
719 published events cover 12 months, averaging 59.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 305 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.