Schools
30 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 5 secondary schools. Chase Terrace Academy is the nearest published school at 157 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS7 2AB
Boney Hay & Central · Lichfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Boney Hay & Central
- Local authority
- Lichfield
- Constituency
- Lichfield
- Postcode district
- WS7
- Postcode sector
- WS7 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS7 2AB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS7
- Postcode sector
- WS7 2
- Latitude
- 52.682077
- Longitude
- -1.931967
- British National Grid easting
- 404,696
- British National Grid northing
- 309,376
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Lichfield · E07000194
- Electoral ward
- Boney Hay & Central · E05010654
- Parish or community
- E04008917
- Westminster constituency
- Lichfield · E14001335
- Output area
- E00150252
- Lower layer super output area
- Lichfield 009D · E01029490
- Middle layer super output area
- Lichfield 009 · E02006154
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 WS7
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 30
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 5
- 157 m
Chase Terrace Academy
Academy converter
- 159 m
Chase Terrace Primary School
Foundation school
- 830 m
St Joseph & St Theresa Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,627
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 728
- Anti social behaviour 192
- Shoplifting 171
- Vehicle crime 116
- Public order 115
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS7 2 residents
- 5,112
Age bands in WS7 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- 730 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.4%
- 429 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.9%
- 1,072 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- 1,438 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 28.4%
- 1,454 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+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Gigabit-capable
- 25%
- 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
10
within 5 km straight-line
SALTERS MEADOW HEALTH CTR
RUGELEY ROAD, CHASE TERRACE, BURNTWOOD, WS7 1AQ
ODS code M83072
72 m
DARWIN MEDICAL PRACTICE
GREENWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, LICHFIELD ROAD, BURNTWOOD, WS7 0AQ
ODS code M83617
2.2 km
NORTON CANES HEALTH CENTRE
BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83063
2.7 km
NORTON CANES PRACTICE
NORTON CANES CLINIC, BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83727
2.7 km
NORTON CANES SURGERY
NORTON CANES CLINIC, BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83717
2.7 km
HOLLAND PARK SURGERY
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91626
3.6 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91006
3.6 km
NEW ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JG
ODS code M91609
3.7 km
RAWNSLEY SURGERY
RAWNSLEY ROAD, CANNOCK, WS12 1JF
ODS code M83719
3.9 km
HEATH HAYES HEALTH CENTRE
GORSEMOOR ROAD, HEATH HAYES, CANNOCK, WS12 3TG
ODS code M83129
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 120 m
Pharmacy
BCT · Chase Terrace
- 136 m
Pharmacy
BCT · Chase Terrace
- 243 m
High Street
BCT · Chase Terrace
- 251 m
High Street
BCT · Chase Terrace
- 355 m
Redwood Drive
BCT · Chase Terrace
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lichfield 009D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,742 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
1,627 published events cover 12 months, averaging 136 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 728 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.