Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 6 secondary schools. Stafford Grammar School is the nearest published school at 599 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ST17 4AB
Highfields & Western Downs · Stafford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ST17 4AB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- ST
- Postcode district
- ST17
- Postcode sector
- ST17 4
- Latitude
- 52.786513
- Longitude
- -2.134883
- British National Grid easting
- 391,000
- British National Grid northing
- 321,000
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
- E00151401
- Lower layer super output area
- Stafford 013A · E01029715
- Middle layer super output area
- Stafford 013 · E02006200
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 ST17
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 6
- 599 m
Stafford Grammar School
Other independent school
- 656 m
Blessed Mother Teresa's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 744 m
Castlechurch Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,226
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 611
- Anti social behaviour 174
- Criminal damage and arson 95
- Other theft 75
- Public order 70
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ST17 4 residents
- 11,910
Age bands in ST17 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.1%
2,133 residents
1,136 residents
3,127 residents
3,117 residents
2,394 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
7
within 5 km straight-line
RISING BROOK
THE HEALTH CENTRE, MERREY ROAD, STAFFORD, ST17 9LY
ODS code M83036
1.1 km
CASTLEFIELDS
CASTLEFIELDS SURGERY, CASTLE WAY, NEWPORT ROAD, STAFFORD, ST16 1BS
ODS code M83024
1.6 km
WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD SURGERY
WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD, STAFFORD, ST17 4BS
ODS code M83050
2.3 km
MILL BANK
WATER STREET, STAFFORD, ST16 2AG
ODS code M83057
2.3 km
STAFFORD HEALTH AND WELLBEING
WHITGREAVE COURT, STAFFORD, ST16 3EB
ODS code M83044
3.6 km
WEEPING CROSS HEALTH CENTRE
BODMIN AVENUE, WEEPING CROSS, STAFFORD, ST17 0EG
ODS code M83052
3.9 km
HOLMCROFT
HOLMCROFT ROAD, STAFFORD, ST16 1JG
ODS code M83049
4.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Cape Avenue
BCT · Highfields
- 0.2 miles
Stevenson Drive
BCT · Highfields
- 0.2 miles
Cape Avenue
BCT · Highfields
- 0.3 miles
Norfolk Way
BCT · Highfields
- 0.3 miles
Oxleathers Court
BCT · Western Downs
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Stafford 013A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,268 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
1,226 published events cover 12 months, averaging 102.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 611 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.