Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 1 secondary schools. Rugeley John Taylor is the nearest published school at 88 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS15 1PR
Armitage with Handsacre · Lichfield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS15 1PR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS15
- Postcode sector
- WS15 1
- Latitude
- 52.753937
- Longitude
- -1.912937
- British National Grid easting
- 405,973
- British National Grid northing
- 317,371
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Lichfield · E07000194
- Electoral ward
- Armitage with Handsacre · E05010652
- Parish or community
- E04008916
- Westminster constituency
- Lichfield · E14001335
- Output area
- E00180717
- Lower layer super output area
- Lichfield 001E · E01034099
- Middle layer super output area
- Lichfield 001 · E02006146
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
- 88 m
Rugeley John Taylor
Free schools
- 1.2 km
Hob Hill CE/Methodist (VC) Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.4 km
Redbrook Hayes Community Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 850
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 398
- Anti social behaviour 81
- Public order 67
- Shoplifting 61
- Vehicle crime 53
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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km
BRERETON SURGERY
88 MAIN ROAD, BRERETON, RUGELEY, WS15 1DU
ODS code M83703
1.1 km
SANDY LANE SURGERY
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, RUGELEY, WS15 2LB
ODS code Y02354
1.7 km
AELFGAR SURGERY
CHURCH STREET, RUGELEY, WS15 2AB
ODS code M83738
2.0 km
HORSEFAIR PRACTICE
SPRINGFIELDS HC & WELL BEING CLINIC, LOVETT COURT, RUGELEY, WS15 2FH
ODS code M83001
2.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
The Meadows
BCT · Brereton
- 0.5 miles
The Meadows
BCT · Brereton
- 0.6 miles
Ash Tree Inn
BCT · Brereton
- 0.6 miles
Ash Tree Inn
BCT · Brereton
- 0.6 miles
Hillside Close
BCT · Brereton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lichfield 001E, 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
25,446 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
850 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 398 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.