Schools
62 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 8 secondary schools. Ryders Hayes School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS3 5AB
Norton Canes · Cannock Chase · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Norton Canes
- Local authority
- Cannock Chase
- Constituency
- Cannock Chase
- Postcode district
- WS3
- Postcode sector
- WS3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS3 5AB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1982
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS3
- Postcode sector
- WS3 5
- Latitude
- 52.640059
- Longitude
- -1.980740
- British National Grid easting
- 401,400
- British National Grid northing
- 304,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Cannock Chase · E07000192
- Electoral ward
- Norton Canes · E05015752
- Parish or community
- E04008874
- Westminster constituency
- Cannock Chase · E14001150
- Output area
- E00180712
- Lower layer super output area
- Cannock Chase 013B · E01029395
- Middle layer super output area
- Cannock Chase 013 · E02006130
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
- 62
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 8
- 1.2 km
Ryders Hayes School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Pelsall Village School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Little Bloxwich CofE VC Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 584
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 234
- Shoplifting 105
- Vehicle crime 60
- Criminal damage and arson 41
- Other theft 30
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS3 5 residents
- 2,077
Age bands in WS3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.5%
373 residents
227 residents
509 residents
610 residents
444 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
HIGH STREET SURGERY
HIGH STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LX
ODS code M91654
1.4 km
CHAPEL STREET SURGERY
1 CHAPEL STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LN
ODS code M91024
1.6 km
LOWER FARM HEALTH CENTRE
109 BUXTON ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3RT
ODS code M91623
1.8 km
HARDEN BLAKENALL
BLAKENHALL VILLAGE CENTRE, THAMES ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 1LZ
ODS code Y02627
2.9 km
NEW ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JG
ODS code M91609
3.0 km
QUINTON PRACTICE
WARDLES LANE, GREAT WYRLEY, WALSALL, WS6 6EW
ODS code M83608
3.1 km
MOSSLEY & DUDLEY FIELDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 FISHER ROAD, MOSSLEY, WALSALL, WS3 2TA
ODS code M91029
3.2 km
SOUTHFIELD WAY SURGERY
2A SOUTHFIELD WAY, GREAT WYRLEY, WALSALL, WS6 6JZ
ODS code M83698
3.3 km
BLOXWICH MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91034
3.3 km
KHAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91602
3.3 km
PILLAI
THE PINFOLD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91647
3.3 km
PINFOLD MEDICAL
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91650
3.3 km
ST MARY'S SURGERY
FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91612
3.3 km
HOLLAND PARK SURGERY
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91626
3.3 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91006
3.3 km
HARDEN HEALTH CENTRE
HARDEN ROAD, LEAMORE, WALSALL, WS3 1ET
ODS code M91036
3.5 km
ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9LP
ODS code M91007
3.6 km
STREETS CORNER SURGERY
79-81 LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91009
3.8 km
WALSALL WOOD HEALTH CENTRE
LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91639
3.8 km
RUSHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
107 LICHFIELD ROAD, RUSHALL, WALSALL, WS4 1HB
ODS code M91019
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 26 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Huddocks View
BCT · Pelsall Wood
- 0.5 miles
Huddocks View
BCT · Pelsall Wood
- 0.5 miles
Oak Road
BCT · Pelsall Wood
- 0.5 miles
Oak Road
BCT · Pelsall Wood
- 0.5 miles
Highfield Road North
BCT · Pelsall Wood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Cannock Chase 013B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
20,136 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
584 published events cover 12 months, averaging 48.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 234 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.