Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 4 secondary schools. Parkside Primary School is the nearest published school at 777 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ST16 3EF
Coton · Stafford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ST16 3EF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2009
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ST
- Postcode district
- ST16
- Postcode sector
- ST16 3
- Latitude
- 52.831519
- Longitude
- -2.113323
- British National Grid easting
- 392,462
- British National Grid northing
- 326,004
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Stafford · E07000197
- Electoral ward
- Coton · E05010482
- Parish or community
- E43000132
- Westminster constituency
- Stafford · E14001513
- Output area
- E00151279
- Lower layer super output area
- Stafford 006A · E01029690
- Middle layer super output area
- Stafford 006 · E02006193
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Hopton Court House, Paton Drive, Stafford, ST16 3EF | 15 September 2015 | £4,017,662 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 777 m
Parkside Primary School
Academy converter
- 875 m
Sir Graham Balfour High School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Beaconfields Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 770
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 372
- Anti social behaviour 81
- Public order 65
- Other theft 64
- Criminal damage and arson 60
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ST16 3 residents
- 16,866
Age bands in ST16 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.8%
2,933 residents
1,717 residents
5,667 residents
4,164 residents
2,516 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 60%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 20%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 20%
- Gigabit-capable
- 20%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 60%
- 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
HOLMCROFT
HOLMCROFT ROAD, STAFFORD, ST16 1JG
ODS code M83049
1.6 km
STAFFORD HEALTH AND WELLBEING
WHITGREAVE COURT, STAFFORD, ST16 3EB
ODS code M83044
1.7 km
MILL BANK
WATER STREET, STAFFORD, ST16 2AG
ODS code M83057
3.0 km
WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD SURGERY
WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD, STAFFORD, ST17 4BS
ODS code M83050
3.2 km
CASTLEFIELDS
CASTLEFIELDS SURGERY, CASTLE WAY, NEWPORT ROAD, STAFFORD, ST16 1BS
ODS code M83024
3.6 km
RISING BROOK
THE HEALTH CENTRE, MERREY ROAD, STAFFORD, ST17 9LY
ODS code M83036
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Ashridge Walk
BCT · Parkside
- 0.5 miles
Shopping Precinct
BCT · Parkside
- 0.6 miles
Bertelin Road
BCT · Stafford
- 0.6 miles
Bertelin Road
BCT · Stafford
- 0.6 miles
Darnford Close
BCT · Parkside
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Stafford 006A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,828 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
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
770 published events cover 12 months, averaging 64.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 372 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.