Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 7 secondary schools. Knypersley First School is the nearest published school at 725 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ST8 6PQ
Biddulph West · Staffordshire Moorlands · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Biddulph West
- Local authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Postcode district
- ST8
- Postcode sector
- ST8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- ST8 6PQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- ST
- Postcode district
- ST8
- Postcode sector
- ST8 6
- Latitude
- 53.102586
- Longitude
- -2.188031
- British National Grid easting
- 387,508
- British National Grid northing
- 356,169
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Staffordshire Moorlands · E07000198
- Electoral ward
- Biddulph West · E05007045
- Parish or community
- E04009025
- Westminster constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands · E14001514
- Output area
- E00151716
- Lower layer super output area
- Staffordshire Moorlands 004C · E01029772
- Middle layer super output area
- Staffordshire Moorlands 004 · E02006207
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 ST8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 7
- 725 m
Knypersley First School
Academy converter
- 887 m
Roaches School
Other independent special school
- 896 m
James Bateman Middle School
Academy converter
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 282
- Anti social behaviour 88
- Criminal damage and arson 53
- Public order 51
- Vehicle crime 30
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- ST8 6 residents
- 10,665
Age bands in ST8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.8%
1,762 residents
992 residents
2,333 residents
3,103 residents
2,562 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
8
within 5 km straight-line
BIDDULPH DOCTORS
BIDDULPH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, WHARF ROAD, BIDDULPH, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST8 6AG
ODS code M83089
1.6 km
BIDDULPH VALLEY SURGERY
BIDDULPH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, WHARF ROAD, BIDDULPH, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST8 6AG
ODS code M83046
1.6 km
KIDSGROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
MOUNT ROAD, KIDSGROVE, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST7 4AY
ODS code M83023
3.5 km
MOUNT ROAD PRACTICE
MOUNT ROAD, KIDSGROVE, STOKE ON TRENT, ST7 4AY
ODS code M83084
3.5 km
GOLDENHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
SITA MEDICAL CENTRE, HIGH STREET, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST6 5QJ
ODS code M83143
3.6 km
GREENMOSS MEDICAL CENTRE
PORTLAND DRIVE, SCHOLAR GREEN, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST7 3BT
ODS code N81071
4.2 km
FURLONG MEDICAL CENTRE
FURLONG ROAD, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST6 5UD
ODS code M83021
4.6 km
ORCHARD SURGERY
KNYPERSLEY ROAD, NORTON-IN-THE-MOORS, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST6 8HY
ODS code M83038
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · Brown Lees
- 0.0 miles
Post Office
BCT · Brown Lees
- 0.1 miles
Stile Close
BCT · Brown Lees
- 0.1 miles
Stile Close
BCT · Brown Lees
- 0.2 miles
Lyneside Road
BCT · Brown Lees
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Staffordshire Moorlands 004C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,591 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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 282 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.