Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 4 secondary schools. Pye Green Academy is the nearest published school at 451 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS12 4YF
Hednesford Green Heath · Cannock Chase · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cannock Chase
- Constituency
- Cannock Chase
- Postcode district
- WS12
- Postcode sector
- WS12 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS12 4YF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1998
- Terminated
- 1 June 2000
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS12
- Postcode sector
- WS12 4
- Latitude
- 52.716067
- Longitude
- -2.017185
- British National Grid easting
- 398,936
- British National Grid northing
- 313,155
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Cannock Chase · E07000192
- Electoral ward
- Hednesford Green Heath · E05015749
- Parish or community
- E04008876
- Westminster constituency
- Cannock Chase · E14001150
- Output area
- E00180760
- Lower layer super output area
- Cannock Chase 005F · E01034098
- Middle layer super output area
- Cannock Chase 005 · E02006122
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 WS12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 451 m
Pye Green Academy
Academy converter
- 481 m
Staffordshire University Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 722 m
Hednesford Valley High School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,831
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 946
- Anti social behaviour 224
- Public order 150
- Criminal damage and arson 125
- Other theft 79
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS12 4 residents
- 17,404
Age bands in WS12 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.5%
3,084 residents
1,705 residents
4,881 residents
4,700 residents
2,839 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
CHADSMOOR MEDICAL PRACTICE
45 PRINCESS STREET, CHADSMOOR, CANNOCK, WS11 5JT
ODS code M83637
985 m
DR MANICKAM & PARTNER
HEDNESFORD VALLEY HEALTH CENTRE, STATION ROAD, HEDNESFORD, CANNOCK, WS12 4DJ
ODS code M83109
1.2 km
HEDNESFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEDNESFORD VALLEY HEALTH CENTRE, STATION ROAD, HEDNESFORD, CANNOCK, WS12 4DJ
ODS code M83033
1.2 km
MOSS STREET SURGERY
23 MOSS STREET, CHADSMOOR, CANNOCK, WS11 6DE
ODS code M83139
1.5 km
CANNOCK PRACTICES NETWORK SURGERY
C/O GP SUITE LEVEL 2, CANNOCK CHASE HOSPITAL, BRUNSWICK ROAD, CANNOCK, WS11 5XY
ODS code Y05125
2.7 km
DR I RASIB & PARTNERS
BRUNSWICK ROAD, CANNOCK, WS11 5XY
ODS code M83616
2.7 km
RED LION SURGERY
CANNOCK CHASE HOSPITAL, BRUNSWICK ROAD, CANNOCK, WS11 5XY
ODS code M83130
2.7 km
THE COLLIERY PRACTICE
60 HEDNESFORD STREET, CANNOCK, WS11 1DJ
ODS code M83638
3.1 km
RAWNSLEY SURGERY
RAWNSLEY ROAD, CANNOCK, WS12 1JF
ODS code M83719
3.3 km
HEATH HAYES HEALTH CENTRE
GORSEMOOR ROAD, HEATH HAYES, CANNOCK, WS12 3TG
ODS code M83129
3.4 km
ALDERWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
LONGFORD ROAD, CANNOCK, WS11 1QN
ODS code M83107
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Fieldhouse Road
BCT · Rose Hill
- 0.2 miles
Fieldhouse Road
BCT · Rose Hill
- 0.2 miles
Thornhill Road
BCT · Rose Hill
- 0.2 miles
Thornhill Road
BCT · Rose Hill
- 0.3 miles
Broadway
BCT · West Chadmoor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cannock Chase 005F, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,784 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,831 published events cover 12 months, averaging 152.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 946 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.