Schools
92 open schools are in scope, including 54 primary and 9 secondary schools. Co-op Academy Northwood is the nearest published school at 608 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ST1 6UN
Birches Head & Northwood · Stoke-on-Trent · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent Central
- Postcode district
- ST1
- Postcode sector
- ST1 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ST1 6UN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ST
- Postcode district
- ST1
- Postcode sector
- ST1 6
- Latitude
- 53.026639
- Longitude
- -2.155838
- British National Grid easting
- 389,645
- British National Grid northing
- 347,715
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Stoke-on-Trent · E06000021
- Electoral ward
- Birches Head & Northwood · E05014559
- Parish or community
- E43000017
- Westminster constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent Central · E14001520
- Output area
- E00071769
- Lower layer super output area
- Stoke-on-Trent 012D · E01014213
- Middle layer super output area
- Stoke-on-Trent 012 · E02002962
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 ST1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 92
- Primary
- 54
- Secondary
- 9
- 608 m
Co-op Academy Northwood
Academy converter
- 773 m
Hanley St Luke's Church of England Academy
Academy converter
- 966 m
Our Lady and St Benedict Catholic Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,491
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,074
- Anti social behaviour 644
- Public order 555
- Criminal damage and arson 471
- Shoplifting 405
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ST1 6 residents
- 13,298
Age bands in ST1 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.2%
2,263 residents
1,450 residents
3,576 residents
4,035 residents
2,695 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
25
within 5 km
PRIMA CARE SURGERIES
HANLEY HEALTH CENTRE, UPPER HUNTBACH STREET, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST1 2BN
ODS code M83625
986 m
THE MOORCROFT MEDICAL CTR
10 BOTTESLOW STREET, STOKE ON TRENT, ST1 3NJ
ODS code M83146
1.0 km
BIRCHES HEAD MEDICAL CTR.
DIANA ROAD, BIRCHES HEAD, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST1 6RS
ODS code M83123
1.0 km
HARLEY STREET MEDICAL CTR
HARLEY STREET, HANLEY, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST1 3RX
ODS code M83076
1.1 km
POTTERIES MEDICAL CENTRE
BEVERLEY DRIVE, BENTILEE, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST2 0JG
ODS code M83102
1.5 km
NORFOLK STREET SURGERY
NORFOLK STREET, SHELTON, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST1 4PB
ODS code M83075
2.2 km
APSLEY SURGERY
COBRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE, CHURCH TERRACE, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST6 2JN
ODS code M83627
2.3 km
COBRIDGE SURGERY
COBRIDGE COMMUNITY HC, CHURCH TERRACE, COBRIDGE, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST6 2JN
ODS code M83127
2.3 km
CAMBRIDGE HOUSE
BENTILEE NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, 231-251 DAWLISH DRIVE, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST2 0EU
ODS code M83624
2.3 km
MILLRISE MEDICAL PRACTICE
12 MILLRISE ROAD, MILTON, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST2 7BW
ODS code M83061
2.7 km
GLEBEDALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
FENTON HEALTH CENTRE, GLEBEDALE ROAD, STOKE ON TRENT, ST4 3AQ
ODS code M83028
3.1 km
HONEYWALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
STOKE HEALTH CENTRE, HONEYWALL, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 7JB
ODS code M83619
3.2 km
LUCIE WEDGEWOOD SURGERY LTD
LUCIE WEDGWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, CHAPEL LANE, BURSLEM, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST6 2AB
ODS code M83682
3.3 km
BROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
CHELL HEATH ROAD, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST6 7NN
ODS code M83094
3.7 km
MIDDLEPORT MEDICAL CENTRE
NEWPORT LANE, MIDDLEPORT, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST6 3PN
ODS code Y02867
3.8 km
WERRINGTON VILLAGE SURGERY
ASH BANK ROAD, WERRINGTON, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST9 0JS
ODS code M83011
3.9 km
BADDELEY GREEN SURGERY
988 LEEK NEW ROAD, STOCKTON BROOK, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST9 9PB
ODS code M83709
4.1 km
ADDERLEY GREEN SURGERY
DRAYTON ROAD, LONGTON, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST3 1EQ
ODS code M83661
4.1 km
HARTSHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
ASHWELL ROAD, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 6AT
ODS code M83066
4.1 km
WOLSTANTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PALMERSTON STREET, WOLSTANTON, NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, NEWCASTLE, ST5 8BN
ODS code M83056
4.2 km
Showing 20 of 25 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
- 0.0 miles
Trent Valley path
BCT · Bucknall
- 0.1 miles
Cromer Road
BCT · Bucknall
- 0.1 miles
Cromer Road
BCT · Bucknall
- 0.1 miles
Cromer Road workshops
BCT · Bucknall
- 0.1 miles
Caldon Canal bridge
BCT · Bucknall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Stoke-on-Trent 012D, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,986 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 1
- 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
5,491 published events cover 12 months, averaging 457.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,074 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.