Schools
48 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 8 secondary schools. University of Keele is the nearest published school at 236 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ST5 5BP
Keele · Newcastle-under-Lyme · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Keele
- Local authority
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Constituency
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- Postcode district
- ST5
- Postcode sector
- ST5 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ST5 5BP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ST
- Postcode district
- ST5
- Postcode sector
- ST5 5
- Latitude
- 53.004786
- Longitude
- -2.271355
- British National Grid easting
- 381,888
- British National Grid northing
- 345,307
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Newcastle-under-Lyme · E07000195
- Electoral ward
- Keele · E05011421
- Parish or community
- E04008947
- Westminster constituency
- Newcastle-under-Lyme · E14001380
- Output area
- E00172354
- Lower layer super output area
- Newcastle-under-Lyme 012A · E01029576
- Middle layer super output area
- Newcastle-under-Lyme 012 · E02006169
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 ST5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 48
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 8
- 236 m
University of Keele
Higher education institutions
- 962 m
St John's CofE Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Silverdale Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 598
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 276
- Anti social behaviour 100
- Public order 42
- Other theft 39
- Criminal damage and arson 37
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 942
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ST5 5 residents
- 5,042
563 female, 379 male
Age bands in ST5 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 7.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 45.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 13.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.9%
381 residents
2,235 residents
642 residents
891 residents
729 residents
This postcode contained 18.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ST5 5 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+
- 4.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 47.8%
- Next Generation Access
- 4.3%
- 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
13
within 5 km
KEELE PRACTICE
HEALTH CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF KEELE, KEELE, NEWCASTLE, ST5 5BG
ODS code M83670
246 m
SILVERDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
VALE PLEASANT, SILVERDALE, NEWCASTLE, ST5 6PS
ODS code M83034
1.2 km
HIGHERLAND SURGERY
3 ORME ROAD, POOLFIELD, NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, NEWCASTLE, ST5 2UE
ODS code M83140
2.6 km
MILEHOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MILEHOUSE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, LYMEBROOK WAY, MILEHOUSE, NEWCASTLE, ST5 9GA
ODS code M83697
2.8 km
LYME VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
LYME VALLEY ROAD, NEWCASTLE, ST5 3TF
ODS code M83067
3.2 km
KINGSBRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
KINGSBRIDGE HOUSE, KINGSBRIDGE AVENUE, CLAYTON, NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME, ST5 3HP
ODS code M83141
3.3 km
MILLER STREET SURGERY
MILLER STREET, NEWCASTLE, ST5 1JD
ODS code M83025
3.7 km
LOOMER MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
LOOMER ROAD, CHESTERTON, NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME, NEWCASTLE, ST5 7JS
ODS code M83723
3.8 km
HARTSHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
ASHWELL ROAD, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST4 6AT
ODS code M83066
4.1 km
HEATHCOTE STREET SURGERY
2 HEATHCOTE STREET, CHESTERTON, NEWCASTLE, ST5 7EB
ODS code M83005
4.5 km
WOLSTANTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PALMERSTON STREET, WOLSTANTON, NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYME, NEWCASTLE, ST5 8BN
ODS code M83056
4.6 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY
49 HIGH STREET, WOLSTANTON, NEWCASTLE, ST5 0ET
ODS code M83007
4.7 km
MADELEY PRACTICE
MOSS LANE SURGERY, MOSS LANE, MADELEY, CREWE, CW3 9NQ
ODS code M83015
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
- 0.1 miles
Stephenson building
BCT · Keele
- 0.1 miles
Barnes Hall
BCT · Keele
- 0.1 miles
Barnes Hall
BCT · Keele
- 0.1 miles
Darwin Building
BCT · Keele
- 0.1 miles
Darwin Building
BCT · Keele
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Newcastle-under-Lyme 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,705 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
598 published events cover 12 months, averaging 49.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 276 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.