Schools
97 open schools are in scope, including 61 primary and 11 secondary schools. Valley Nursery School is the nearest published school at 164 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS3 3ES
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS3 3ES
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 September 2006
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS3
- Postcode sector
- WS3 3
- Latitude
- 52.615743
- Longitude
- -1.991917
- British National Grid easting
- 400,644
- British National Grid northing
- 301,995
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
- E00052002
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 012C · E01010288
- 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
- 97
- Primary
- 61
- Secondary
- 11
- 164 m
Valley Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 447 m
Sunshine Academy
Academy converter
- 468 m
Field Road Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,907
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,706
- Criminal damage and arson 416
- Vehicle crime 321
- Shoplifting 318
- Public order 227
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS3 3 residents
- 13,188
Age bands in WS3 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.4%
2,412 residents
1,536 residents
3,252 residents
3,717 residents
2,976 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
36
within 5 km straight-line
HARDEN BLAKENALL
BLAKENHALL VILLAGE CENTRE, THAMES ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 1LZ
ODS code Y02627
372 m
BLOXWICH MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91034
665 m
KHAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91602
665 m
PILLAI
THE PINFOLD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91647
665 m
PINFOLD MEDICAL
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91650
665 m
ST MARY'S SURGERY
FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91612
665 m
HARDEN HEALTH CENTRE
HARDEN ROAD, LEAMORE, WALSALL, WS3 1ET
ODS code M91036
895 m
LOWER FARM HEALTH CENTRE
109 BUXTON ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3RT
ODS code M91623
1.4 km
MOSSLEY & DUDLEY FIELDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 FISHER ROAD, MOSSLEY, WALSALL, WS3 2TA
ODS code M91029
1.8 km
CHAPEL STREET SURGERY
1 CHAPEL STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LN
ODS code M91024
2.1 km
BEECHDALE CENTRE
EDISON ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 7HS
ODS code M91611
2.2 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
HIGH STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LX
ODS code M91654
2.2 km
RUSHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
107 LICHFIELD ROAD, RUSHALL, WALSALL, WS4 1HB
ODS code M91019
2.3 km
ST PETER'S SURGERY
51 LECKIE ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 8DA
ODS code M91004
2.4 km
BIRCHILLS HEALTH CENTRE
23-37 OLD BIRCHILLS, WALSALL, WS2 8QH
ODS code M91629
2.8 km
SADDLERS HEALTH CENTRE
HATHERTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91018
3.3 km
UMBRELLA MEDICAL
1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91015
3.3 km
NEW INVENTION HEALTH CENTRE
66 CANNOCK ROAD, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5RZ
ODS code M91016
3.3 km
FORRESTER STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FORRESTER STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9PL
ODS code M91613
3.4 km
MODALITY KINGFISHER DARLASTON PRACTICE
BENTLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCHILL ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 0BA
ODS code M91028
3.7 km
Showing 20 of 36 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hamilton Street
BCT · Blakenall Heath
- 0.0 miles
Blakenall Church
BCT · Blakenall Heath
- 0.1 miles
Hamilton Street
BCT · Blakenall Heath
- 0.1 miles
Blakenall Church
BCT · Blakenall Heath
- 0.1 miles
Ingram Place
BCT · Blakenall Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 012C, 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
2,381 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
3,907 published events cover 12 months, averaging 325.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,706 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.