Schools
59 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.
WS8 7HT
Brownhills · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Brownhills
- Local authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Aldridge-Brownhills
- Postcode district
- WS8
- Postcode sector
- WS8 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS8 7HT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1983
- Terminated
- 1 December 1986
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS8
- Postcode sector
- WS8 7
- Latitude
- 52.642749
- Longitude
- -1.957093
- British National Grid easting
- 403,000
- British National Grid northing
- 305,000
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
- E00052058
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 001D · E01010307
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 001 · E02002110
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
- 59
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 8
- 1.1 km
Ryders Hayes School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.6 km
Brownhills West Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 440
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 181
- Vehicle crime 61
- Shoplifting 36
- Criminal damage and arson 31
- Anti social behaviour 28
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS8 7 residents
- 9,727
Age bands in WS8 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 20%
1,706 residents
1,026 residents
2,208 residents
2,645 residents
1,896 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
24
within 5 km straight-line
NEW ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JG
ODS code M91609
1.4 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
HIGH STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LX
ODS code M91654
1.6 km
HOLLAND PARK SURGERY
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91626
1.7 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91006
1.7 km
CHAPEL STREET SURGERY
1 CHAPEL STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LN
ODS code M91024
1.8 km
STREETS CORNER SURGERY
79-81 LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91009
2.5 km
WALSALL WOOD HEALTH CENTRE
LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91639
2.5 km
ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9LP
ODS code M91007
2.5 km
LOWER FARM HEALTH CENTRE
109 BUXTON ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3RT
ODS code M91623
3.2 km
NORTON CANES HEALTH CENTRE
BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83063
3.6 km
NORTON CANES PRACTICE
NORTON CANES CLINIC, BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83727
3.6 km
NORTON CANES SURGERY
NORTON CANES CLINIC, BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83717
3.6 km
HARDEN BLAKENALL
BLAKENHALL VILLAGE CENTRE, THAMES ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 1LZ
ODS code Y02627
3.7 km
RUSHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
107 LICHFIELD ROAD, RUSHALL, WALSALL, WS4 1HB
ODS code M91019
3.9 km
HARDEN HEALTH CENTRE
HARDEN ROAD, LEAMORE, WALSALL, WS3 1ET
ODS code M91036
4.3 km
QUINTON PRACTICE
WARDLES LANE, GREAT WYRLEY, WALSALL, WS6 6EW
ODS code M83608
4.4 km
BLOXWICH MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91034
4.4 km
KHAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91602
4.4 km
PILLAI
THE PINFOLD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91647
4.4 km
PINFOLD MEDICAL
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91650
4.4 km
Showing 20 of 24 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Canal Bridge
BCT · Ryders Hayes
- 0.1 miles
Canal Bridge
BCT · Ryders Hayes
- 0.2 miles
Apex Road
BCT · Clayhanger
- 0.3 miles
Apex Road
BCT · Clayhanger
- 0.3 miles
Highbridge
BCT · Ryders Hayes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 001D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,394 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
440 published events cover 12 months, averaging 36.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 181 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.