Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 1 secondary schools. Rugeley John Taylor is the nearest published school at 742 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS15 1NZ
Western Springs · Cannock Chase · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Western Springs
- Local authority
- Cannock Chase
- Constituency
- Cannock Chase
- Postcode district
- WS15
- Postcode sector
- WS15 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS15 1NZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2012
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS15
- Postcode sector
- WS15 1
- Latitude
- 52.753962
- Longitude
- -1.922730
- British National Grid easting
- 405,312
- British National Grid northing
- 317,373
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Cannock Chase · E07000192
- Electoral ward
- Western Springs · E05015753
- Parish or community
- E04008869
- Westminster constituency
- Cannock Chase · E14001150
- Output area
- E00149538
- Lower layer super output area
- Cannock Chase 003A · E01029345
- Middle layer super output area
- Cannock Chase 003 · E02006120
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 WS15
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 1
- 742 m
Rugeley John Taylor
Free schools
- 817 m
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 921 m
Redbrook Hayes Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,566
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 716
- Shoplifting 161
- Anti social behaviour 147
- Public order 116
- Criminal damage and arson 101
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS15 1 residents
- 12,526
Age bands in WS15 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.6%
2,430 residents
1,213 residents
3,434 residents
3,103 residents
2,168 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.
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
4
within 5 km straight-line
BRERETON SURGERY
88 MAIN ROAD, BRERETON, RUGELEY, WS15 1DU
ODS code M83703
727 m
SANDY LANE SURGERY
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, RUGELEY, WS15 2LB
ODS code Y02354
1.0 km
AELFGAR SURGERY
CHURCH STREET, RUGELEY, WS15 2AB
ODS code M83738
1.5 km
HORSEFAIR PRACTICE
SPRINGFIELDS HC & WELL BEING CLINIC, LOVETT COURT, RUGELEY, WS15 2FH
ODS code M83001
2.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Buckmaster Way
BCT · Brereton
- 0.3 miles
Buckmaster Way
BCT · Brereton
- 0.3 miles
Ravenhill Terrace
BCT · Rugeley
- 0.4 miles
Ravenhill Terrace
BCT · Rugeley
- 0.4 miles
Redbrook Lane
BCT · Brereton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cannock Chase 003A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,721 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,566 published events cover 12 months, averaging 130.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 716 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.