Schools
117 open schools are in scope, including 76 primary and 14 secondary schools. Butts Primary School is the nearest published school at 408 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS3 1QT
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
- WS3
- Postcode sector
- WS3 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS3 1QT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS3
- Postcode sector
- WS3 1
- Latitude
- 52.593312
- Longitude
- -1.982237
- British National Grid easting
- 401,300
- British National Grid northing
- 299,500
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
- E00052389
- 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 WS3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 117
- Primary
- 76
- Secondary
- 14
- 408 m
Butts Primary School
Community school
- 469 m
Walsall College
Further education
- 483 m
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Walsall
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,045
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,547
- Shoplifting 1,200
- Criminal damage and arson 514
- Vehicle crime 472
- Other theft 427
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
39
within 5 km straight-line
ST PETER'S SURGERY
51 LECKIE ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 8DA
ODS code M91004
225 m
SADDLERS HEALTH CENTRE
HATHERTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91018
724 m
UMBRELLA MEDICAL
1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91015
724 m
BIRCHILLS HEALTH CENTRE
23-37 OLD BIRCHILLS, WALSALL, WS2 8QH
ODS code M91629
929 m
FORRESTER STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FORRESTER STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9PL
ODS code M91613
1.3 km
HARDEN HEALTH CENTRE
HARDEN ROAD, LEAMORE, WALSALL, WS3 1ET
ODS code M91036
1.7 km
BRACE STREET HC- KUMAR
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91628
1.8 km
BRACE STREET HC- MAHBUB (M91659)
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91659
1.8 km
BRACE STREET HEALTH CENTRE
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91014
1.8 km
BEECHDALE CENTRE
EDISON ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 7HS
ODS code M91611
1.9 km
LITTLE LONDON SURGERY
LITTLE LONDON, CALDMORE, WALSALL, WS1 3EP
ODS code M91008
2.0 km
AMBAR MEDICAL CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code Y00228
2.1 km
PALFREY HEALTH CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code M91621
2.1 km
RUSHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
107 LICHFIELD ROAD, RUSHALL, WALSALL, WS4 1HB
ODS code M91019
2.2 km
PLECK HEALTH CENTRE
16 OXFORD STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9HY
ODS code M91616
2.4 km
HARDEN BLAKENALL
BLAKENHALL VILLAGE CENTRE, THAMES ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 1LZ
ODS code Y02627
2.4 km
BLOXWICH MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91034
2.5 km
KHAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91602
2.5 km
PILLAI
THE PINFOLD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91647
2.5 km
PINFOLD MEDICAL
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91650
2.5 km
Showing 20 of 39 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Cannon Street
BCT · Ryecroft
- 0.1 miles
Cannon Street
BCT · Ryecroft
- 0.1 miles
Marlow Street
BCT · Birchills
- 0.1 miles
Marlow Street
BCT · Birchills
- 0.2 miles
Wiltshire Close
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
7,045 published events cover 12 months, averaging 587.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,547 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.