Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 1 secondary schools. Rugeley John Taylor is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS15 3HZ
Colton & the Ridwares · Lichfield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS15 3HZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1997
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS15
- Postcode sector
- WS15 3
- Latitude
- 52.768581
- Longitude
- -1.912508
- British National Grid easting
- 406,000
- British National Grid northing
- 319,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Lichfield · E07000194
- Electoral ward
- Colton & the Ridwares · E05010659
- Parish or community
- E04008919
- Westminster constituency
- Lichfield · E14001335
- Output area
- E00150299
- Lower layer super output area
- Lichfield 001D · E01029498
- 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
- 19
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.6 km
Rugeley John Taylor
Free schools
- 1.6 km
Chancel Primary School
Community school
- 1.9 km
The St. Mary's CofE Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 148
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 43
- Shoplifting 25
- Burglary 18
- Vehicle crime 16
- Anti social behaviour 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS15 3 residents
- 4,595
Age bands in WS15 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.5%
606 residents
384 residents
762 residents
1,447 residents
1,216 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
1.8 km
SANDY LANE SURGERY
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, RUGELEY, WS15 2LB
ODS code Y02354
2.2 km
HORSEFAIR PRACTICE
SPRINGFIELDS HC & WELL BEING CLINIC, LOVETT COURT, RUGELEY, WS15 2FH
ODS code M83001
2.4 km
BRERETON SURGERY
88 MAIN ROAD, BRERETON, RUGELEY, WS15 1DU
ODS code M83703
2.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Rugeley Trent Valley Rail Station
RLY · Rugeley
- 0.7 miles
Rugeley Trent Valley Rail Station
RSE · Rugeley
- 0.8 miles
KFC
BCT · Rugeley
- 0.8 miles
Aldi Store
BCT · Rugeley
- 0.8 miles
Riverside Rugeley
BCT · Rugeley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lichfield 001D, 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
23,991 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
148 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 43 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.