Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 5 secondary schools. Roaches School is the nearest published school at 745 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
ST8 6RU
Biddulph West · Staffordshire Moorlands · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Stoke-On-Trent
- 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 6RU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- ST
- Postcode district
- ST8
- Postcode sector
- ST8 6
- Latitude
- 53.114175
- Longitude
- -2.186856
- British National Grid easting
- 387,590
- British National Grid northing
- 357,458
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
- E00151710
- Lower layer super output area
- Staffordshire Moorlands 004D · E01029773
- 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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Green Mile Cottage, Wharf Road, Biddulph, Stoke-On-Trent, ST8 6RU | 14 January 2016 | £135,000 |
| Woodside Cottages, 2, Wharf Road, Biddulph, Stoke-On-Trent, ST8 6RU | 17 October 2003 | £79,000 |
| Woodside Cottages, 2, Wharf Road, Biddulph, Stoke-On-Trent, ST8 6RU | 18 October 1996 | £19,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 5
- 745 m
Roaches School
Other independent special school
- 780 m
Knypersley First School
Academy converter
- 877 m
James Bateman Middle School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,042
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 463
- Anti social behaviour 184
- Criminal damage and arson 105
- Public order 80
- Burglary 39
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- ST8 6 residents
- 10,665
8 female, 7 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider ST8 6 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
BIDDULPH DOCTORS
BIDDULPH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, WHARF ROAD, BIDDULPH, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST8 6AG
ODS code M83089
600 m
BIDDULPH VALLEY SURGERY
BIDDULPH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, WHARF ROAD, BIDDULPH, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST8 6AG
ODS code M83046
600 m
GREENMOSS MEDICAL CENTRE
PORTLAND DRIVE, SCHOLAR GREEN, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST7 3BT
ODS code N81071
4.3 km
KIDSGROVE MEDICAL CENTRE
MOUNT ROAD, KIDSGROVE, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST7 4AY
ODS code M83023
4.3 km
MOUNT ROAD PRACTICE
MOUNT ROAD, KIDSGROVE, STOKE ON TRENT, ST7 4AY
ODS code M83084
4.3 km
GOLDENHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
SITA MEDICAL CENTRE, HIGH STREET, STOKE-ON-TRENT, ST6 5QJ
ODS code M83143
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Meadows Way
BCT · Biddulph
- 0.4 miles
Aldi store
BCT · Biddulph
- 0.4 miles
Lyneside Road
BCT · Brown Lees
- 0.4 miles
James Way
BCT · Brown Lees
- 0.4 miles
Lyneside Road
BCT · Brown Lees
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Staffordshire Moorlands 004D, 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
29,864 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,042 published events cover 12 months, averaging 86.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 463 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.