Schools
109 open schools are in scope, including 69 primary and 14 secondary schools. Ryecroft School is the nearest published school at 435 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS2 7AX
Harden, Goscote & Ryecroft · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Local authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich
- Postcode district
- WS2
- Postcode sector
- WS2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS2 7AX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2008
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS2
- Postcode sector
- WS2 7
- Latitude
- 52.602671
- Longitude
- -1.986958
- British National Grid easting
- 400,980
- British National Grid northing
- 300,541
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Walsall · E08000030
- Electoral ward
- Harden, Goscote & Ryecroft · E05016441
- Parish or community
- E43000184
- Westminster constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich · E14001562
- Output area
- E00051961
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 013B · E01010277
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 013 · E02002122
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 WS2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 109
- Primary
- 69
- Secondary
- 14
- 435 m
Ryecroft School
Other independent special school
- 588 m
North Walsall Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 654 m
St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,525
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,004
- Criminal damage and arson 485
- Vehicle crime 377
- Shoplifting 335
- Other theft 266
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS2 7 residents
- 9,506
Age bands in WS2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 25.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.7%
2,337 residents
1,061 residents
2,575 residents
2,081 residents
1,274 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
35
within 5 km straight-line
HARDEN HEALTH CENTRE
HARDEN ROAD, LEAMORE, WALSALL, WS3 1ET
ODS code M91036
660 m
ST PETER'S SURGERY
51 LECKIE ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 8DA
ODS code M91004
915 m
HARDEN BLAKENALL
BLAKENHALL VILLAGE CENTRE, THAMES ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 1LZ
ODS code Y02627
1.3 km
BIRCHILLS HEALTH CENTRE
23-37 OLD BIRCHILLS, WALSALL, WS2 8QH
ODS code M91629
1.4 km
BLOXWICH MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91034
1.5 km
KHAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91602
1.5 km
PILLAI
THE PINFOLD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91647
1.5 km
PINFOLD MEDICAL
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91650
1.5 km
ST MARY'S SURGERY
FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91612
1.5 km
BEECHDALE CENTRE
EDISON ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 7HS
ODS code M91611
1.6 km
SADDLERS HEALTH CENTRE
HATHERTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91018
1.8 km
UMBRELLA MEDICAL
1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91015
1.8 km
RUSHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
107 LICHFIELD ROAD, RUSHALL, WALSALL, WS4 1HB
ODS code M91019
1.9 km
FORRESTER STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FORRESTER STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9PL
ODS code M91613
2.0 km
BRACE STREET HC- KUMAR
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91628
2.8 km
BRACE STREET HC- MAHBUB (M91659)
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91659
2.8 km
BRACE STREET HEALTH CENTRE
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91014
2.8 km
MOSSLEY & DUDLEY FIELDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 FISHER ROAD, MOSSLEY, WALSALL, WS3 2TA
ODS code M91029
2.9 km
LOWER FARM HEALTH CENTRE
109 BUXTON ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3RT
ODS code M91623
2.9 km
MODALITY KINGFISHER DARLASTON PRACTICE
BENTLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCHILL ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 0BA
ODS code M91028
3.0 km
Showing 20 of 35 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Forest Lane
BCT · Ryecroft
- 0.1 miles
Hawbush Road
BCT · Harden
- 0.1 miles
Forest Lane
BCT · Ryecroft
- 0.1 miles
Archer Road
BCT · Harden
- 0.1 miles
Carl Street
BCT · Ryecroft
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 013B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,665 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
4,525 published events cover 12 months, averaging 377.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,004 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.