Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 8 secondary schools. Leighswood School is the nearest published school at 636 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS9 8ST
Aldridge Central & South · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Aldridge-Brownhills
- Postcode district
- WS9
- Postcode sector
- WS9 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS9 8ST
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2012
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS9
- Postcode sector
- WS9 8
- Latitude
- 52.614947
- Longitude
- -1.926459
- British National Grid easting
- 405,076
- British National Grid northing
- 301,909
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Walsall · E08000030
- Electoral ward
- Aldridge Central & South · E05016433
- Parish or community
- E43000184
- Westminster constituency
- Aldridge-Brownhills · E14001064
- Output area
- E00168250
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 015A · E01010241
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 015 · E02002124
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 WS9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 8
- 636 m
Leighswood School
Community school
- 1.4 km
St John's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.4 km
Castlefort Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,243
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 467
- Vehicle crime 154
- Shoplifting 140
- Criminal damage and arson 121
- Other theft 90
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS9 8 residents
- 8,720
Age bands in WS9 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 31%
1,258 residents
785 residents
1,878 residents
2,369 residents
2,832 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+
- 50%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 50%
- Gigabit-capable
- 50%
- 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
17
within 5 km
ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9LP
ODS code M91007
1.3 km
NORTHGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
ANCHOR MEADOW, ALDRIDGE, WALSALL, WS9 8AJ
ODS code M91017
1.4 km
PORTLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
ANCHOR MEADOW, ALDRIDGE, WALSALL, WS9 8AJ
ODS code M91010
1.4 km
STREETS CORNER SURGERY
79-81 LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91009
1.6 km
WALSALL WOOD HEALTH CENTRE
LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91639
1.6 km
RUSHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
107 LICHFIELD ROAD, RUSHALL, WALSALL, WS4 1HB
ODS code M91019
2.4 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
3.3 km
NEW ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JG
ODS code M91609
3.9 km
HOLLAND PARK SURGERY
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91626
3.9 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91006
3.9 km
HARDEN BLAKENALL
BLAKENHALL VILLAGE CENTRE, THAMES ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 1LZ
ODS code Y02627
4.1 km
HARDEN HEALTH CENTRE
HARDEN ROAD, LEAMORE, WALSALL, WS3 1ET
ODS code M91036
4.1 km
BLACKWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
BLACKWOOD ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B74 3PL
ODS code M91637
4.5 km
ST PETER'S SURGERY
51 LECKIE ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 8DA
ODS code M91004
4.6 km
SADDLERS HEALTH CENTRE
HATHERTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91018
4.8 km
UMBRELLA MEDICAL
1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91015
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sussex Avenue
BCT · Leighswood
- 0.2 miles
Sussex Avenue
BCT · Leighswood
- 0.2 miles
Struggling Monkey
BCT · Leighswood
- 0.2 miles
Dorset Drive
BCT · Leighswood
- 0.2 miles
Leighswood Industrial Estate
BCT · Leighswood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 015A, 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
25,938 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,243 published events cover 12 months, averaging 103.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 467 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.