Property market
The five-year median is £271,000 from 9 recorded sales in ST16 1DS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Stafford is £259,721 in June 2026, up 4.4% year on year.
ST16 1DS
Highfields & Western Downs · Stafford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ST16 1DS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2005
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ST
- Postcode district
- ST16
- Postcode sector
- ST16 1
- Latitude
- 52.796011
- Longitude
- -2.138754
- British National Grid easting
- 390,741
- British National Grid northing
- 322,057
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Stafford · E07000197
- Electoral ward
- Highfields & Western Downs · E05010489
- Parish or community
- E43000132
- Westminster constituency
- Stafford · E14001513
- Output area
- E00151402
- Lower layer super output area
- Stafford 012A · E01029714
- Middle layer super output area
- Stafford 012 · E02006199
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 ST16
Property
69 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 30, Castle House Drive, Stafford, ST16 1DS | 18 December 2025 | £280,000 |
| 24, Castle House Drive, Stafford, ST16 1DS | 5 September 2025 | £272,500 |
| 16, Castle House Drive, Stafford, ST16 1DS | 31 March 2025 | £271,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 7
- 390 m
Castlechurch Primary School
Academy converter
- 536 m
King Edward VI High School
Academy sponsor led
- 875 m
Blessed Mother Teresa's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,485
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 653
- Anti social behaviour 213
- Criminal damage and arson 116
- Public order 109
- Drugs 88
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 70
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- ST16 1 residents
- 14,764
36 female, 34 male
Age bands in ST16 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.5%
2,551 residents
1,367 residents
3,866 residents
3,738 residents
2,969 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ST16 1 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+
- 71.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 71.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 71.9%
- 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
7
within 5 km
CASTLEFIELDS
CASTLEFIELDS SURGERY, CASTLE WAY, NEWPORT ROAD, STAFFORD, ST16 1BS
ODS code M83024
825 m
RISING BROOK
THE HEALTH CENTRE, MERREY ROAD, STAFFORD, ST17 9LY
ODS code M83036
1.7 km
MILL BANK
WATER STREET, STAFFORD, ST16 2AG
ODS code M83057
1.7 km
WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD SURGERY
WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD, STAFFORD, ST17 4BS
ODS code M83050
1.9 km
STAFFORD HEALTH AND WELLBEING
WHITGREAVE COURT, STAFFORD, ST16 3EB
ODS code M83044
2.6 km
HOLMCROFT
HOLMCROFT ROAD, STAFFORD, ST16 1JG
ODS code M83049
3.0 km
WEEPING CROSS HEALTH CENTRE
BODMIN AVENUE, WEEPING CROSS, STAFFORD, ST17 0EG
ODS code M83052
4.1 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
- 0.1 miles
Castle Church
BCT · Stafford
- 0.1 miles
Castle Church
BCT · Stafford
- 0.2 miles
Thorneyfields Lane
BCT · Stafford
- 0.2 miles
Torridge Drive
BCT · Western Downs
- 0.2 miles
Clarendon Drive
BCT · Western Downs
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Stafford 012A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,838 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
- 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
Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 7 secondary schools. Castlechurch Primary School is the nearest published school at 390 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,485 published events cover 12 months, averaging 123.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 653 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.