Schools
94 open schools are in scope, including 59 primary and 11 secondary schools. Rivers Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 217 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS3 1PG
Bloxwich East & Blakenall Heath · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich
- Postcode district
- WS3
- Postcode sector
- WS3 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS3 1PG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS3
- Postcode sector
- WS3 1
- Latitude
- 52.617584
- Longitude
- -1.982227
- British National Grid easting
- 401,300
- British National Grid northing
- 302,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Walsall · E08000030
- Electoral ward
- Bloxwich East & Blakenall Heath · E05016437
- Parish or community
- E43000184
- Westminster constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich · E14001562
- Output area
- E00051999
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 012D · E01010289
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 012 · E02002121
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 WS3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 94
- Primary
- 59
- Secondary
- 11
- 217 m
Rivers Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 646 m
Valley Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 764 m
Goldsmith Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,301
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,408
- Criminal damage and arson 374
- Vehicle crime 308
- Shoplifting 257
- Other theft 196
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS3 1 residents
- 15,114
Age bands in WS3 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 26.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.5%
3,946 residents
1,919 residents
4,201 residents
3,108 residents
1,719 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
37
within 5 km straight-line
HARDEN BLAKENALL
BLAKENHALL VILLAGE CENTRE, THAMES ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 1LZ
ODS code Y02627
442 m
HARDEN HEALTH CENTRE
HARDEN ROAD, LEAMORE, WALSALL, WS3 1ET
ODS code M91036
1.0 km
BLOXWICH MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91034
1.3 km
KHAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91602
1.3 km
PILLAI
THE PINFOLD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91647
1.3 km
PINFOLD MEDICAL
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91650
1.3 km
ST MARY'S SURGERY
FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91612
1.3 km
CHAPEL STREET SURGERY
1 CHAPEL STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LN
ODS code M91024
1.5 km
LOWER FARM HEALTH CENTRE
109 BUXTON ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3RT
ODS code M91623
1.6 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
HIGH STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LX
ODS code M91654
1.7 km
RUSHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
107 LICHFIELD ROAD, RUSHALL, WALSALL, WS4 1HB
ODS code M91019
1.9 km
MOSSLEY & DUDLEY FIELDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 FISHER ROAD, MOSSLEY, WALSALL, WS3 2TA
ODS code M91029
2.3 km
ST PETER'S SURGERY
51 LECKIE ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 8DA
ODS code M91004
2.6 km
BEECHDALE CENTRE
EDISON ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 7HS
ODS code M91611
2.7 km
BIRCHILLS HEALTH CENTRE
23-37 OLD BIRCHILLS, WALSALL, WS2 8QH
ODS code M91629
3.1 km
SADDLERS HEALTH CENTRE
HATHERTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91018
3.4 km
UMBRELLA MEDICAL
1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91015
3.4 km
ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9LP
ODS code M91007
3.5 km
FORRESTER STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FORRESTER STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9PL
ODS code M91613
3.7 km
STREETS CORNER SURGERY
79-81 LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91009
3.9 km
Showing 20 of 37 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Thames Road
BCT · Little Bloxwich
- 0.1 miles
Goscote Lane
BCT · Little Bloxwich
- 0.1 miles
Goscote Lane
BCT · Goscote
- 0.1 miles
Goscote Lane
BCT · Goscote
- 0.1 miles
Slacky Lane
BCT · Goscote
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 012D, 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
882 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
3,301 published events cover 12 months, averaging 275.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,408 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.