Schools
91 open schools are in scope, including 61 primary and 7 secondary schools. Abbey Primary School is the nearest published school at 581 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS3 2PA
Bloxwich West · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bloxwich West
- Local authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich
- Postcode district
- WS3
- Postcode sector
- WS3 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS3 2PA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1983
- Terminated
- 1 September 2021
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS3
- Postcode sector
- WS3 2
- Latitude
- 52.620441
- Longitude
- -2.029922
- British National Grid easting
- 398,071
- British National Grid northing
- 302,518
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Walsall · E08000030
- Electoral ward
- Bloxwich West · E05016438
- Parish or community
- E43000184
- Westminster constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich · E14001562
- Output area
- E00052043
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 009A · E01010291
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 009 · E02002118
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
- 91
- Primary
- 61
- Secondary
- 7
- 581 m
Abbey Primary School
Academy converter
- 681 m
Jubilee Academy Mossley
Academy converter
- 779 m
Beacon Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,916
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 820
- Shoplifting 270
- Criminal damage and arson 197
- Vehicle crime 138
- Other theft 118
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS3 2 residents
- 14,031
Age bands in WS3 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.6%
2,982 residents
1,654 residents
3,494 residents
3,477 residents
2,152 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.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
35
within 5 km straight-line
MOSSLEY & DUDLEY FIELDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 FISHER ROAD, MOSSLEY, WALSALL, WS3 2TA
ODS code M91029
931 m
SINA HEALTH CENTRE
230 COPPICE FARM WAY, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5XZ
ODS code M91003
1.2 km
NEW INVENTION HEALTH CENTRE
66 CANNOCK ROAD, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5RZ
ODS code M91016
1.4 km
ASHMORE PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2LH
ODS code M92022
2.0 km
BLOXWICH MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91034
2.1 km
KHAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91602
2.1 km
PILLAI
THE PINFOLD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91647
2.1 km
PINFOLD MEDICAL
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91650
2.1 km
ST MARY'S SURGERY
FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91612
2.1 km
ESSINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
HOBNOCK ROAD, ESSINGTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2RF
ODS code Y02594
2.2 km
LOWER FARM HEALTH CENTRE
109 BUXTON ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3RT
ODS code M91623
2.3 km
GRIFFITHS DRIVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
75 GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2JN
ODS code M92026
2.4 km
BEECHDALE CENTRE
EDISON ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 7HS
ODS code M91611
2.7 km
HARDEN BLAKENALL
BLAKENHALL VILLAGE CENTRE, THAMES ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 1LZ
ODS code Y02627
3.0 km
HARDEN HEALTH CENTRE
HARDEN ROAD, LEAMORE, WALSALL, WS3 1ET
ODS code M91036
3.3 km
MODALITY KINGFISHER DARLASTON PRACTICE
BENTLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCHILL ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 0BA
ODS code M91028
3.5 km
STROUD PRACTICE
BENTLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCHILL ROAD, BENTLEY, WALSALL, WS2 0BA
ODS code M91614
3.5 km
BIRCHILLS HEALTH CENTRE
23-37 OLD BIRCHILLS, WALSALL, WS2 8QH
ODS code M91629
4.0 km
QUINTON PRACTICE
WARDLES LANE, GREAT WYRLEY, WALSALL, WS6 6EW
ODS code M83608
4.2 km
ST PETER'S SURGERY
51 LECKIE ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 8DA
ODS code M91004
4.2 km
Showing 20 of 35 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Abbey Square
BCT · Mossley
- 0.3 miles
M6 Motorway Bridge
BCT · New Invention
- 0.4 miles
Abbey Square
BCT · Mossley
- 0.4 miles
Chepstow Road
BCT · Dudleys Field
- 0.4 miles
M6 Motorway Bridge
BCT · New Invention
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 009A, 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
3,223 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
1,916 published events cover 12 months, averaging 159.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 820 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.