Schools
115 open schools are in scope, including 75 primary and 20 secondary schools. High Point Academy is the nearest published school at 609 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS10 0SL
Friar Park & Stone Cross · Sandwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- Tipton and Wednesbury
- Postcode district
- WS10
- Postcode sector
- WS10 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS10 0SL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS10
- Postcode sector
- WS10 0
- Latitude
- 52.560455
- Longitude
- -1.988991
- British National Grid easting
- 400,843
- British National Grid northing
- 295,845
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Sandwell · E08000028
- Electoral ward
- Friar Park & Stone Cross · E05016614
- Parish or community
- E43000182
- Westminster constituency
- Tipton and Wednesbury · E14001547
- Output area
- E00050402
- Lower layer super output area
- Sandwell 003D · E01009967
- Middle layer super output area
- Sandwell 003 · E02002045
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 WS10
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 115
- Primary
- 75
- Secondary
- 20
- 609 m
High Point Academy
Free schools special
- 635 m
Park Hill Primary School
Foundation school
- 725 m
Joseph Leckie Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,195
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,307
- Shoplifting 421
- Criminal damage and arson 304
- Vehicle crime 279
- Other theft 206
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.3
- WS10 0 residents
- 14,749
1 female, 3 male
Age bands in WS10 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 15%
3,243 residents
1,603 residents
3,774 residents
3,715 residents
2,185 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WS10 0 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
38
within 5 km straight-line
TAME VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
FRIAR PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0JS
ODS code M88023
706 m
THE VILLAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
158A CRANKHALL LANE, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0EB
ODS code M88001
989 m
BROADWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
213 BROADWAY, WALSALL, WS1 3HD
ODS code M91619
1.1 km
AMBAR MEDICAL CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code Y00228
1.6 km
PALFREY HEALTH CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code M91621
1.6 km
PLECK HEALTH CENTRE
16 OXFORD STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9HY
ODS code M91616
1.7 km
STONE CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
291 WALSALL ROAD, WEST BROMWICH, B71 3LN
ODS code M88008
1.7 km
LITTLE LONDON SURGERY
LITTLE LONDON, CALDMORE, WALSALL, WS1 3EP
ODS code M91008
1.7 km
OAKESWELL HEALTH CENTRE
BRUNSWICK PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 9HP
ODS code M88007
1.8 km
BRACE STREET HC- KUMAR
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91628
1.9 km
BRACE STREET HC- MAHBUB (M91659)
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91659
1.9 km
BRACE STREET HEALTH CENTRE
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91014
1.9 km
CLIFTON LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
CLIFTON LANE, WEST BROMWICH, B71 3AS
ODS code M88630
1.9 km
JUBILEE HEALTH CENTRE
1 UPPER RUSSELL STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 7AR
ODS code M88022
2.3 km
THE SPIRES HEALTH CENTRE
RICHARD NUGENT CENTRE, KINGSBURY CLOSE, WEDNESBURY, WS10 7DB
ODS code M88643
2.5 km
FORRESTER STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FORRESTER STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9PL
ODS code M91613
2.8 km
DARLASTON MEDICAL CENTRE
BIRMINGHAM STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 9JQ
ODS code M91641
2.9 km
SADDLERS HEALTH CENTRE
HATHERTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91018
3.0 km
UMBRELLA MEDICAL
1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91015
3.0 km
NEW STREET SURGERY
NEW STREET, HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0HN
ODS code M88035
3.1 km
Showing 20 of 38 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Bescot Stadium Rail Station
RLY · Bescot
- 0.2 miles
Somerset Crescent
BCT · Friar Park
- 0.2 miles
Somerset Crescent
BCT · Friar Park
- 0.2 miles
Berkshire Crescent
BCT · Friar Park
- 0.2 miles
Berkshire Crescent
BCT · Friar Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sandwell 003D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,654 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
3,195 published events cover 12 months, averaging 266.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,307 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.