Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 6 secondary schools. Priory CofE Academy is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ST4 8SB
Swynnerton & Oulton · Stafford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Stoke-On-Trent
- 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 8SB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ST
- Postcode district
- ST4
- Postcode sector
- ST4 8
- Latitude
- 52.968364
- Longitude
- -2.226770
- British National Grid easting
- 384,867
- British National Grid northing
- 341,245
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
- E00151575
- 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
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Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Ivy Cottage, Ridding Bank, Hanchurch, Stoke-On-Trent, ST4 8SB | 24 November 2020 | £197,000 |
| The Olde House, Ridding Bank, Hanchurch, Stoke-On-Trent, ST4 8SB | 4 December 2015 | £125,505 |
| Hollybush Cottage, Ridding Bank, Hanchurch, Stoke-On-Trent, ST4 8SB | 4 September 2015 | £143,320 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 6
- 2.1 km
Priory CofE Academy
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- 2.2 km
Trentham Academy
Academy converter
- 2.3 km
Clayton Hall Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 158
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 76
- Anti social behaviour 20
- Public order 18
- Criminal damage and arson 16
- Other theft 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 19
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- ST4 8 residents
- 12,433
10 female, 9 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 0.2% 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
HANFORD GP
HANFORD HEALTH CENTRE, NEW INN LANE, HANFORD, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 8EX
ODS code M83138
2.3 km
BRINSLEY AVENUE PRACTICE
11 BRINSLEY AVENUE, TRENTHAM, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 8LT
ODS code M83601
2.4 km
TRENTHAM MEWS MEDICAL CENTRE
EASTWICK CRESCENT, TRENTHAM, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 8XP
ODS code M83711
2.5 km
TRENT VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
876 LONDON ROAD, TRENT VALE, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 5NX
ODS code M83014
2.7 km
KINGSBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
KINGSBRIDGE HOUSE, KINGSBRIDGE AVENUE, CLAYTON, NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME, ST5 3HP
ODS code M83141
2.7 km
LYME VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
LYME VALLEY ROAD, NEWCASTLE, ST5 3TF
ODS code M83067
4.2 km
HIGHERLAND SURGERY
3 ORME ROAD, POOLFIELD, NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, NEWCASTLE, ST5 2UE
ODS code M83140
4.5 km
BLURTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
BLURTON HEALTH CENTRE, RIPON ROAD, BLURTON, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST3 3BS
ODS code M83725
4.7 km
HARTSHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
ASHWELL ROAD, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 6AT
ODS code M83066
4.8 km
HONEYWALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
STOKE HEALTH CENTRE, HONEYWALL, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 7JB
ODS code M83619
4.9 km
KEELE PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF KEELE, KEELE, NEWCASTLE, ST5 5BG
ODS code M83670
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Peacock Lane
BCT · Hanchurch
- 0.1 miles
Peacock Lane
BCT · Hanchurch
- 0.6 miles
Butterton Grange
BCT · Hanchurch
- 0.6 miles
Butterton Grange
BCT · Hanchurch
- 0.7 miles
Moss Rise
BCT · Clayton Village
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
158 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 76 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.