Schools
46 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 8 secondary schools. Priory CofE Academy is the nearest published school at 712 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ST4 8AU
Swynnerton & Oulton · Stafford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Swynnerton & Oulton
- Local authority
- Stafford
- Constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent South
- Postcode district
- ST4
- Postcode sector
- ST4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ST4 8AU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ST
- Postcode district
- ST4
- Postcode sector
- ST4 8
- Latitude
- 52.969743
- Longitude
- -2.205038
- British National Grid easting
- 386,327
- British National Grid northing
- 341,394
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Stafford · E07000197
- Electoral ward
- Swynnerton & Oulton · E05010499
- Parish or community
- E04012927
- Westminster constituency
- Stoke-on-Trent South · E14001522
- Output area
- E00151581
- Lower layer super output area
- Stafford 002D · E01029748
- Middle layer super output area
- Stafford 002 · E02006189
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 ST4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 46
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 8
- 712 m
Priory CofE Academy
Academy converter
- 734 m
Trentham Academy
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
St Teresa's Catholic (A) Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 560
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 244
- Anti social behaviour 62
- Other theft 47
- Criminal damage and arson 44
- Public order 38
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- ST4 8 residents
- 12,433
1 female, 1 male
Age bands in ST4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.3%
1,929 residents
1,084 residents
2,895 residents
3,661 residents
3,419 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ST4 8 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
15
within 5 km
HANFORD GP
HANFORD HEALTH CENTRE, NEW INN LANE, HANFORD, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 8EX
ODS code M83138
847 m
BRINSLEY AVENUE PRACTICE
11 BRINSLEY AVENUE, TRENTHAM, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 8LT
ODS code M83601
981 m
TRENTHAM MEWS MEDICAL CENTRE
EASTWICK CRESCENT, TRENTHAM, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 8XP
ODS code M83711
1.0 km
TRENT VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
876 LONDON ROAD, TRENT VALE, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 5NX
ODS code M83014
2.0 km
KINGSBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
KINGSBRIDGE HOUSE, KINGSBRIDGE AVENUE, CLAYTON, NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME, ST5 3HP
ODS code M83141
2.9 km
BLURTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
BLURTON HEALTH CENTRE, RIPON ROAD, BLURTON, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST3 3BS
ODS code M83725
3.3 km
HONEYWALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
STOKE HEALTH CENTRE, HONEYWALL, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 7JB
ODS code M83619
4.1 km
LYME VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
LYME VALLEY ROAD, NEWCASTLE, ST5 3TF
ODS code M83067
4.3 km
GLEBEDALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
FENTON HEALTH CENTRE, GLEBEDALE ROAD, STOKE ON TRENT, ST4 3AQ
ODS code M83028
4.3 km
HARTSHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
ASHWELL ROAD, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 6AT
ODS code M83066
4.5 km
LONGTON HALL SURGERY
LONGTON SOUTH PC CENTRE, GREENDOCK STREET, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST3 2NA
ODS code M83126
4.7 km
HIGHERLAND SURGERY
3 ORME ROAD, POOLFIELD, NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, NEWCASTLE, ST5 2UE
ODS code M83140
4.8 km
MAYFIELD SURGERY
54 TRENTHAM ROAD, LONGTON, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST3 4DW
ODS code M83004
5.0 km
BELGRAVE MEDICAL CENTRE
116 BELGRAVE ROAD, DRESDEN, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST3 4LR
ODS code M83068
5.0 km
MILLER STREET SURGERY
MILLER STREET, NEWCASTLE, ST5 1JD
ODS code M83025
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
- 0.2 miles
Whitmore Road
BCT · Trentham
- 0.2 miles
Allerton Road
BCT · Trentham
- 0.2 miles
Bankhouse Road
BCT · Trentham
- 0.3 miles
Bankhouse Road
BCT · Trentham
- 0.3 miles
Poachers Cottage PH
BCT · Trentham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Stafford 002D, 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
30,052 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
560 published events cover 12 months, averaging 46.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 244 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.