Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 1 secondary schools. Chancel Primary School is the nearest published school at 643 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS15 2WS
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 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS15 2WS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1999
- Terminated
- 1 August 2009
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS15
- Postcode sector
- WS15 2
- Latitude
- 52.760824
- Longitude
- -1.928290
- British National Grid easting
- 404,936
- British National Grid northing
- 318,136
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
- E04008875
- Westminster constituency
- Cannock Chase · E14001150
- Output area
- E00149820
- Lower layer super output area
- Cannock Chase 002E · E01029404
- Middle layer super output area
- Cannock Chase 002 · E02006119
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
- 19
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 1
- 643 m
Chancel Primary School
Community school
- 761 m
Churchfield CofE Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,594
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 727
- Shoplifting 167
- Anti social behaviour 156
- Public order 128
- Criminal damage and arson 97
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS15 2 residents
- 14,424
Age bands in WS15 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.2%
2,235 residents
1,543 residents
3,308 residents
4,160 residents
3,402 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 straight-line
AELFGAR SURGERY
CHURCH STREET, RUGELEY, WS15 2AB
ODS code M83738
704 m
SANDY LANE SURGERY
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, RUGELEY, WS15 2LB
ODS code Y02354
800 m
HORSEFAIR PRACTICE
SPRINGFIELDS HC & WELL BEING CLINIC, LOVETT COURT, RUGELEY, WS15 2FH
ODS code M83001
1.5 km
BRERETON SURGERY
88 MAIN ROAD, BRERETON, RUGELEY, WS15 1DU
ODS code M83703
1.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Aldi Store
BCT · Rugeley
- 0.1 miles
KFC
BCT · Rugeley
- 0.1 miles
Mcdonalds
BCT · Rugeley
- 0.3 miles
Police Station
BCT · Rugeley Town Centre
- 0.3 miles
Police Station
BCT · Rugeley Town Centre
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cannock Chase 002E, 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
8,085 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
1,594 published events cover 12 months, averaging 132.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 727 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.