Schools
127 open schools are in scope, including 79 primary and 18 secondary schools. Bescot Hall is the nearest published school at 111 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS2 9HL
Pleck · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Pleck
- Local authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich
- Postcode district
- WS2
- Postcode sector
- WS2 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS2 9HL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1981
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS2
- Postcode sector
- WS2 9
- Latitude
- 52.579828
- Longitude
- -1.998476
- British National Grid easting
- 400,200
- British National Grid northing
- 298,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Walsall · E08000030
- Electoral ward
- Pleck · E05016447
- Parish or community
- E43000184
- Westminster constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich · E14001562
- Output area
- E00052350
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 031B · E01010364
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 031 · E02002140
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
- 127
- Primary
- 79
- Secondary
- 18
- 111 m
Bescot Hall
Other independent special school
- 679 m
Abu Bakr Al-Ihsaan Academy
Other independent school
- 778 m
Hillary Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,886
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,599
- Shoplifting 927
- Vehicle crime 530
- Public order 473
- Criminal damage and arson 460
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS2 9 residents
- 12,842
Age bands in WS2 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.6%
3,053 residents
1,705 residents
3,908 residents
2,664 residents
1,489 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
44
within 5 km straight-line
FORRESTER STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FORRESTER STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9PL
ODS code M91613
611 m
PLECK HEALTH CENTRE
16 OXFORD STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9HY
ODS code M91616
620 m
AMBAR MEDICAL CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code Y00228
714 m
PALFREY HEALTH CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code M91621
714 m
BRACE STREET HC- KUMAR
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91628
1.1 km
BRACE STREET HC- MAHBUB (M91659)
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91659
1.1 km
BRACE STREET HEALTH CENTRE
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91014
1.1 km
BIRCHILLS HEALTH CENTRE
23-37 OLD BIRCHILLS, WALSALL, WS2 8QH
ODS code M91629
1.3 km
LITTLE LONDON SURGERY
LITTLE LONDON, CALDMORE, WALSALL, WS1 3EP
ODS code M91008
1.4 km
SADDLERS HEALTH CENTRE
HATHERTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91018
1.5 km
UMBRELLA MEDICAL
1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91015
1.5 km
ST PETER'S SURGERY
51 LECKIE ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 8DA
ODS code M91004
1.9 km
BROADWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
213 BROADWAY, WALSALL, WS1 3HD
ODS code M91619
2.0 km
MODALITY KINGFISHER DARLASTON PRACTICE
BENTLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCHILL ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 0BA
ODS code M91028
2.0 km
STROUD PRACTICE
BENTLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCHILL ROAD, BENTLEY, WALSALL, WS2 0BA
ODS code M91614
2.0 km
BEECHDALE CENTRE
EDISON ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 7HS
ODS code M91611
2.3 km
DARLASTON MEDICAL CENTRE
BIRMINGHAM STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 9JQ
ODS code M91641
2.6 km
TAME VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
FRIAR PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0JS
ODS code M88023
2.9 km
DARLASTON FAMILY PRACTICE
PINFOLD STREET, DARLASTON, WEDNESBURY, WS10 8SY
ODS code M91026
3.0 km
DARLASTON HEALTH CENTRE
PINFOLD STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 8SY
ODS code Y00278
3.0 km
Showing 20 of 44 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Ida Road
BCT · Pleck
- 0.0 miles
Alumwell School
BCT · Pleck
- 0.1 miles
Benford Ltd
BCT · Pleck
- 0.1 miles
Alumwell School
BCT · Pleck
- 0.1 miles
Flaxhall Street
BCT · Pleck
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 031B, 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
2,242 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
6,886 published events cover 12 months, averaging 573.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,599 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.