Schools
76 open schools are in scope, including 52 primary and 8 secondary schools. Abbey Primary School is the nearest published school at 884 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS3 3YA
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS3 3YA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 January 2004
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS3
- Postcode sector
- WS3 3
- Latitude
- 52.629955
- Longitude
- -2.015036
- British National Grid easting
- 399,079
- British National Grid northing
- 303,576
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
- E00052022
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 008C · E01010296
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 008 · E02002117
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
- 76
- Primary
- 52
- Secondary
- 8
- 884 m
Abbey Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Jubilee Academy Mossley
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Lower Farm Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,576
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 573
- Shoplifting 336
- Criminal damage and arson 145
- Vehicle crime 105
- Other theft 102
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
26
within 5 km straight-line
MOSSLEY & DUDLEY FIELDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 FISHER ROAD, MOSSLEY, WALSALL, WS3 2TA
ODS code M91029
962 m
LOWER FARM HEALTH CENTRE
109 BUXTON ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3RT
ODS code M91623
1.2 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
HARDEN BLAKENALL
BLAKENHALL VILLAGE CENTRE, THAMES ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 1LZ
ODS code Y02627
2.6 km
SINA HEALTH CENTRE
230 COPPICE FARM WAY, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5XZ
ODS code M91003
2.6 km
NEW INVENTION HEALTH CENTRE
66 CANNOCK ROAD, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5RZ
ODS code M91016
2.8 km
ESSINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
HOBNOCK ROAD, ESSINGTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2RF
ODS code Y02594
2.8 km
QUINTON PRACTICE
WARDLES LANE, GREAT WYRLEY, WALSALL, WS6 6EW
ODS code M83608
3.0 km
HARDEN HEALTH CENTRE
HARDEN ROAD, LEAMORE, WALSALL, WS3 1ET
ODS code M91036
3.1 km
CHAPEL STREET SURGERY
1 CHAPEL STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LN
ODS code M91024
3.2 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
HIGH STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LX
ODS code M91654
3.2 km
SOUTHFIELD WAY SURGERY
2A SOUTHFIELD WAY, GREAT WYRLEY, WALSALL, WS6 6JZ
ODS code M83698
3.2 km
ASHMORE PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2LH
ODS code M92022
3.4 km
BEECHDALE CENTRE
EDISON ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 7HS
ODS code M91611
3.4 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
THE SURGERY, HIGH STREET, CHESLYN HAY, WALSALL, WS6 7AB
ODS code M83016
3.6 km
THE NILE PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, CHESLYN HAY, WALSALL, WS6 7AE
ODS code M83048
3.7 km
Showing 20 of 26 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sunningdale Way
BCT · Wallington Heath
- 0.1 miles
Sunningdale Way
BCT · Wallington Heath
- 0.1 miles
Saddleworth Road
BCT · Wallington Heath
- 0.1 miles
Saddleworth Road
BCT · Wallington Heath
- 0.2 miles
Gleneagles Road
BCT · Mossley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 008C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,282 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
1,576 published events cover 12 months, averaging 131.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 573 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.