Schools
8 open schools are in scope, including 5 primary and 0 secondary schools. Rugeley School is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS15 3RU
Colton & the Ridwares · Lichfield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS15 3RU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2016
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS15
- Postcode sector
- WS15 3
- Latitude
- 52.770502
- Longitude
- -1.854683
- British National Grid easting
- 409,901
- British National Grid northing
- 319,220
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
- 8
- Primary
- 5
- Secondary
- 0
- 1.5 km
Rugeley School
Other independent special school
- 2.2 km
Henry Chadwick Primary School
Academy converter
- 3.4 km
The Richard Crosse CofE Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Other theft 3
- Burglary 1
- Vehicle crime 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
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.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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 straight-line
YOXALL
YOXALL HEALTH CENTRE, SAVEY LANE, YOXALL, BURTON-ON-TRENT, DE13 8PD
ODS code M83013
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 1.2 miles
Blithbury Road
BCT · Blithbury
- 1.2 miles
Blithbury Road
BCT · Blithbury
- 1.4 miles
Sandford Close
BCT · Hill Ridware
- 1.4 miles
Sandford Close
BCT · Hill Ridware
- 1.4 miles
Oaklands Close
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
15 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 8 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.