Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 0 secondary schools. Rugeley School is the nearest published school at 800 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS15 3JH
Colton & the Ridwares · Lichfield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS15 3JH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS15
- Postcode sector
- WS15 3
- Latitude
- 52.775958
- Longitude
- -1.862018
- British National Grid easting
- 409,405
- British National Grid northing
- 319,826
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
- E04008928
- Westminster constituency
- Lichfield · E14001335
- Output area
- E00150358
- Lower layer super output area
- Lichfield 002D · E01029509
- Middle layer super output area
- Lichfield 002 · E02006147
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
- 9
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 0
- 800 m
Rugeley School
Other independent special school
- 2.3 km
Henry Chadwick Primary School
Academy converter
- 4.0 km
The Croft Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Vehicle crime 2
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- WS15 3 residents
- 4,595
1 female, 1 male
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
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WS15 3 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
1
within 5 km
YOXALL
YOXALL HEALTH CENTRE, SAVEY LANE, YOXALL, BURTON-ON-TRENT, DE13 8PD
ODS code M83013
4.7 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.7 miles
Blithbury Road
BCT · Blithbury
- 0.7 miles
Blithbury Road
BCT · Blithbury
- 1.4 miles
Rake End Court
BCT · Hill Ridware
- 1.4 miles
Rake End Court
BCT · Hill Ridware
- 1.4 miles
Wade Lane
BCT · Hill Ridware
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lichfield 002D, 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
23,839 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.