Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 5 secondary schools. Pye Green Academy is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS12 5QU
Hednesford Pye Green · Cannock Chase · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hednesford Pye Green
- Local authority
- Cannock Chase
- Constituency
- Cannock Chase
- Postcode district
- WS12
- Postcode sector
- WS12 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS12 5QU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1987
- Terminated
- 1 March 2003
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS12
- Postcode sector
- WS12 5
- Latitude
- 52.725148
- Longitude
- -1.989559
- British National Grid easting
- 400,802
- British National Grid northing
- 314,165
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Cannock Chase · E07000192
- Electoral ward
- Hednesford Pye Green · E05015751
- Parish or community
- E04008871
- Westminster constituency
- Cannock Chase · E14001150
- Output area
- E00149727
- Lower layer super output area
- Cannock Chase 004C · E01029388
- Middle layer super output area
- Cannock Chase 004 · E02006121
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
- 29
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.7 km
Pye Green Academy
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- 1.7 km
West Hill Primary School
Community school
- 2.0 km
Hazel Slade Primary Academy
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 324
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 173
- Anti social behaviour 43
- Criminal damage and arson 25
- Public order 23
- Vehicle crime 13
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
11
within 5 km straight-line
DR MANICKAM & PARTNER
HEDNESFORD VALLEY HEALTH CENTRE, STATION ROAD, HEDNESFORD, CANNOCK, WS12 4DJ
ODS code M83109
1.8 km
HEDNESFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEDNESFORD VALLEY HEALTH CENTRE, STATION ROAD, HEDNESFORD, CANNOCK, WS12 4DJ
ODS code M83033
1.8 km
RAWNSLEY SURGERY
RAWNSLEY ROAD, CANNOCK, WS12 1JF
ODS code M83719
2.3 km
MOSS STREET SURGERY
23 MOSS STREET, CHADSMOOR, CANNOCK, WS11 6DE
ODS code M83139
3.0 km
CHADSMOOR MEDICAL PRACTICE
45 PRINCESS STREET, CHADSMOOR, CANNOCK, WS11 5JT
ODS code M83637
3.0 km
HEATH HAYES HEALTH CENTRE
GORSEMOOR ROAD, HEATH HAYES, CANNOCK, WS12 3TG
ODS code M83129
3.8 km
CANNOCK PRACTICES NETWORK SURGERY
C/O GP SUITE LEVEL 2, CANNOCK CHASE HOSPITAL, BRUNSWICK ROAD, CANNOCK, WS11 5XY
ODS code Y05125
4.5 km
DR I RASIB & PARTNERS
BRUNSWICK ROAD, CANNOCK, WS11 5XY
ODS code M83616
4.5 km
RED LION SURGERY
CANNOCK CHASE HOSPITAL, BRUNSWICK ROAD, CANNOCK, WS11 5XY
ODS code M83130
4.5 km
THE COLLIERY PRACTICE
60 HEDNESFORD STREET, CANNOCK, WS11 1DJ
ODS code M83638
4.7 km
SANDY LANE SURGERY
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, RUGELEY, WS15 2LB
ODS code Y02354
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Walkers Rise
BCT · Brindley Heath
- 0.3 miles
Walkers Rise
BCT · Brindley Heath
- 0.5 miles
Station Road
BCT · Brindley Heath
- 0.5 miles
Station Road
BCT · Brindley Heath
- 0.6 miles
Edison Close
BCT · Brindley Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cannock Chase 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,099 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
324 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 173 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.