Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 8 secondary schools. Five Ways Primary School is the nearest published school at 78 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS12 5FT
Heath Hayes & Wimblebury · Cannock Chase · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Cannock Chase
- Constituency
- Cannock Chase
- Postcode district
- WS12
- Postcode sector
- WS12 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS12 5FT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 March 2003
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS12
- Postcode sector
- WS12 5
- Latitude
- 52.693189
- Longitude
- -1.986784
- British National Grid easting
- 400,990
- British National Grid northing
- 310,610
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Cannock Chase · E07000192
- Electoral ward
- Heath Hayes & Wimblebury · E05015748
- Parish or community
- E04008873
- Westminster constituency
- Cannock Chase · E14001150
- Output area
- E00149707
- Lower layer super output area
- Cannock Chase 009A · E01029380
- Middle layer super output area
- Cannock Chase 009 · E02006126
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
- 45
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 8
- 78 m
Five Ways Primary School
Community school
- 454 m
Gorsemoor Primary School
Community school
- 618 m
Heath Hayes Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 730
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 380
- Anti social behaviour 76
- Public order 61
- Criminal damage and arson 46
- Vehicle crime 42
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
18
within 5 km straight-line
HEATH HAYES HEALTH CENTRE
GORSEMOOR ROAD, HEATH HAYES, CANNOCK, WS12 3TG
ODS code M83129
302 m
MOSS STREET SURGERY
23 MOSS STREET, CHADSMOOR, CANNOCK, WS11 6DE
ODS code M83139
2.1 km
RAWNSLEY SURGERY
RAWNSLEY ROAD, CANNOCK, WS12 1JF
ODS code M83719
2.1 km
DR MANICKAM & PARTNER
HEDNESFORD VALLEY HEALTH CENTRE, STATION ROAD, HEDNESFORD, CANNOCK, WS12 4DJ
ODS code M83109
2.2 km
HEDNESFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEDNESFORD VALLEY HEALTH CENTRE, STATION ROAD, HEDNESFORD, CANNOCK, WS12 4DJ
ODS code M83033
2.2 km
NORTON CANES HEALTH CENTRE
BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83063
2.4 km
NORTON CANES PRACTICE
NORTON CANES CLINIC, BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83727
2.4 km
NORTON CANES SURGERY
NORTON CANES CLINIC, BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83717
2.4 km
THE COLLIERY PRACTICE
60 HEDNESFORD STREET, CANNOCK, WS11 1DJ
ODS code M83638
2.6 km
CANNOCK PRACTICES NETWORK SURGERY
C/O GP SUITE LEVEL 2, CANNOCK CHASE HOSPITAL, BRUNSWICK ROAD, CANNOCK, WS11 5XY
ODS code Y05125
3.0 km
DR I RASIB & PARTNERS
BRUNSWICK ROAD, CANNOCK, WS11 5XY
ODS code M83616
3.0 km
RED LION SURGERY
CANNOCK CHASE HOSPITAL, BRUNSWICK ROAD, CANNOCK, WS11 5XY
ODS code M83130
3.0 km
CHADSMOOR MEDICAL PRACTICE
45 PRINCESS STREET, CHADSMOOR, CANNOCK, WS11 5JT
ODS code M83637
3.0 km
ALDERWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
LONGFORD ROAD, CANNOCK, WS11 1QN
ODS code M83107
3.8 km
SALTERS MEADOW HEALTH CTR
RUGELEY ROAD, CHASE TERRACE, BURNTWOOD, WS7 1AQ
ODS code M83072
3.8 km
SOUTHFIELD WAY SURGERY
2A SOUTHFIELD WAY, GREAT WYRLEY, WALSALL, WS6 6JZ
ODS code M83698
4.4 km
QUINTON PRACTICE
WARDLES LANE, GREAT WYRLEY, WALSALL, WS6 6EW
ODS code M83608
4.5 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
THE SURGERY, HIGH STREET, CHESLYN HAY, WALSALL, WS6 7AB
ODS code M83016
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Five Ways Primary School
BCT · Heath Hayes
- 0.0 miles
Five Ways Primary School
BCT · Heath Hayes
- 0.1 miles
Chaplain Road
BCT · Heath Hayes
- 0.1 miles
Chaplain Road
BCT · Heath Hayes
- 0.1 miles
Highfield Road
BCT · Heath Hayes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cannock Chase 009A, 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
30,254 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
730 published events cover 12 months, averaging 60.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 380 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.