Schools
120 open schools are in scope, including 76 primary and 15 secondary schools. Croft Academy is the nearest published school at 192 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS2 8BW
St Matthew's · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- St Matthew's
- Local authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich
- Postcode district
- WS2
- Postcode sector
- WS2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS2 8BW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2010
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS2
- Postcode sector
- WS2 8
- Latitude
- 52.594346
- Longitude
- -1.987964
- British National Grid easting
- 400,912
- British National Grid northing
- 299,615
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Walsall · E08000030
- Electoral ward
- St Matthew's · E05016450
- Parish or community
- E43000184
- Westminster constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich · E14001562
- Output area
- E00168246
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 018E · E01010375
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 018 · E02002127
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
- 120
- Primary
- 76
- Secondary
- 15
- 192 m
Croft Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 364 m
North Walsall Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 510 m
Ryecroft School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,322
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,682
- Shoplifting 1,240
- Criminal damage and arson 536
- Vehicle crime 490
- Public order 454
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 48
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- WS2 8 residents
- 10,997
14 female, 34 male
Age bands in WS2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 10%
2,614 residents
1,673 residents
3,292 residents
2,402 residents
1,103 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WS2 8 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+
- 15%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 15%
- Gigabit-capable
- 15%
- 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
43
within 5 km
ST PETER'S SURGERY
51 LECKIE ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 8DA
ODS code M91004
212 m
BIRCHILLS HEALTH CENTRE
23-37 OLD BIRCHILLS, WALSALL, WS2 8QH
ODS code M91629
622 m
SADDLERS HEALTH CENTRE
HATHERTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91018
995 m
UMBRELLA MEDICAL
1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91015
995 m
FORRESTER STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FORRESTER STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9PL
ODS code M91613
1.2 km
BEECHDALE CENTRE
EDISON ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 7HS
ODS code M91611
1.5 km
HARDEN HEALTH CENTRE
HARDEN ROAD, LEAMORE, WALSALL, WS3 1ET
ODS code M91036
1.6 km
BRACE STREET HC- KUMAR
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91628
1.9 km
BRACE STREET HC- MAHBUB (M91659)
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91659
1.9 km
BRACE STREET HEALTH CENTRE
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91014
1.9 km
AMBAR MEDICAL CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code Y00228
2.2 km
PALFREY HEALTH CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code M91621
2.2 km
LITTLE LONDON SURGERY
LITTLE LONDON, CALDMORE, WALSALL, WS1 3EP
ODS code M91008
2.2 km
HARDEN BLAKENALL
BLAKENHALL VILLAGE CENTRE, THAMES ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 1LZ
ODS code Y02627
2.3 km
BLOXWICH MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91034
2.3 km
KHAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91602
2.3 km
PILLAI
THE PINFOLD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91647
2.3 km
PINFOLD MEDICAL
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91650
2.3 km
ST MARY'S SURGERY
FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91612
2.3 km
PLECK HEALTH CENTRE
16 OXFORD STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9HY
ODS code M91616
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 43 matching practices.
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wiltshire Close
BCT · Birchills
- 0.1 miles
Wiltshire Close
BCT · Birchills
- 0.1 miles
Northcote Street
BCT · Birchills
- 0.1 miles
Marlow Street
BCT · Birchills
- 0.1 miles
Marlow Street
BCT · Birchills
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 018E, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,949 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
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
7,322 published events cover 12 months, averaging 610.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,682 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.