Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 6 secondary schools. St James Academy is the nearest published school at 574 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS8 6NA
Brownhills · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Brownhills
- Local authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Aldridge-Brownhills
- Postcode district
- WS8
- Postcode sector
- WS8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS8 6NA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS8
- Postcode sector
- WS8 6
- Latitude
- 52.649923
- Longitude
- -1.921611
- British National Grid easting
- 405,400
- British National Grid northing
- 305,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Walsall · E08000030
- Electoral ward
- Brownhills · E05016439
- Parish or community
- E43000184
- Westminster constituency
- Aldridge-Brownhills · E14001064
- Output area
- E00052080
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 002A · E01010302
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 002 · E02002111
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 WS8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 6
- 574 m
St James Academy
Academy converter
- 617 m
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 660 m
Ogley Hay Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,249
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 510
- Criminal damage and arson 147
- Vehicle crime 109
- Shoplifting 101
- Public order 90
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS8 6 residents
- 6,726
Age bands in WS8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.5%
1,348 residents
767 residents
1,721 residents
1,838 residents
1,203 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
13
within 5 km straight-line
HOLLAND PARK SURGERY
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91626
899 m
PARKSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91006
899 m
NEW ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JG
ODS code M91609
1.2 km
STREETS CORNER SURGERY
79-81 LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91009
2.3 km
WALSALL WOOD HEALTH CENTRE
LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91639
2.3 km
ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9LP
ODS code M91007
2.7 km
DARWIN MEDICAL PRACTICE
GREENWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, LICHFIELD ROAD, BURNTWOOD, WS7 0AQ
ODS code M83617
3.2 km
SALTERS MEADOW HEALTH CTR
RUGELEY ROAD, CHASE TERRACE, BURNTWOOD, WS7 1AQ
ODS code M83072
3.7 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
HIGH STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LX
ODS code M91654
3.9 km
CHAPEL STREET SURGERY
1 CHAPEL STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LN
ODS code M91024
4.0 km
NORTON CANES HEALTH CENTRE
BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83063
4.2 km
NORTON CANES PRACTICE
NORTON CANES CLINIC, BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83727
4.2 km
NORTON CANES SURGERY
NORTON CANES CLINIC, BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83717
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lichfield Road
BCT · Ogley Hay
- 0.1 miles
Lichfield Road
BCT · Ogley Hay
- 0.1 miles
Lichfield Road
BCT · Ogley Hay
- 0.1 miles
Fourth Avenue
BCT · Ogley Hay
- 0.1 miles
Ogley Road
BCT · Ogley Hay
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 002A, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,906 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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
1,249 published events cover 12 months, averaging 104.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 510 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.