Schools
17 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Croft Primary School is the nearest published school at 73 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS15 4AU
Armitage with Handsacre · Lichfield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS15 4AU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS15
- Postcode sector
- WS15 4
- Latitude
- 52.743263
- Longitude
- -1.887109
- British National Grid easting
- 407,718
- British National Grid northing
- 316,186
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
- E00180665
- Lower layer super output area
- Lichfield 001F · E01034100
- 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
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Property
15 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 67, Rugeley Road, Armitage, Rugeley, WS15 4AU | 8 November 2019 | £177,000 |
| The Coach House, 2, Rugeley Road, Armitage, Rugeley, WS15 4AU | 10 June 2016 | £260,000 |
| The Hay Barn, Rugeley Road, Armitage, Rugeley, WS15 4AU | 31 August 2012 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 17
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 1
- 73 m
The Croft Primary School
Community school
- 1.7 km
St James Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Henry Chadwick Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 231
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 120
- Anti social behaviour 33
- Public order 17
- Vehicle crime 14
- Criminal damage and arson 13
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- WS15 4 residents
- 7,139
13 female, 12 male
Age bands in WS15 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.2%
956 residents
630 residents
1,455 residents
2,208 residents
1,860 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WS15 4 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
4
within 5 km
BRERETON SURGERY
88 MAIN ROAD, BRERETON, RUGELEY, WS15 1DU
ODS code M83703
2.6 km
SANDY LANE SURGERY
SANDY LANE HEALTH CENTRE, SANDY LANE, RUGELEY, WS15 2LB
ODS code Y02354
3.7 km
AELFGAR SURGERY
CHURCH STREET, RUGELEY, WS15 2AB
ODS code M83738
4.1 km
HORSEFAIR PRACTICE
SPRINGFIELDS HC & WELL BEING CLINIC, LOVETT COURT, RUGELEY, WS15 2FH
ODS code M83001
4.9 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
- 0.0 miles
The Croft Primary School
BCT · Armitage
- 0.0 miles
The Croft Primary School
BCT · Armitage
- 0.2 miles
Rectory Lane
BCT · Armitage
- 0.2 miles
Rectory Lane
BCT · Armitage
- 0.3 miles
The Plum Pudding
BCT · Armitage
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lichfield 001F, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,908 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
231 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 120 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.