Schools
56 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 8 secondary schools. Leighswood School is the nearest published school at 445 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS9 8XX
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 8XX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1986
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS9
- Postcode sector
- WS9 8
- Latitude
- 52.613067
- Longitude
- -1.924631
- British National Grid easting
- 405,200
- British National Grid northing
- 301,700
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
- E00168248
- 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
- 56
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 8
- 445 m
Leighswood School
Community school
- 1.4 km
Cooper and Jordan Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.6 km
Castlefort Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,169
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 432
- Vehicle crime 146
- Shoplifting 144
- Criminal damage and arson 106
- Other theft 91
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.
GP practices
17
within 5 km straight-line
NORTHGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
ANCHOR MEADOW, ALDRIDGE, WALSALL, WS9 8AJ
ODS code M91017
1.2 km
PORTLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
ANCHOR MEADOW, ALDRIDGE, WALSALL, WS9 8AJ
ODS code M91010
1.2 km
ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9LP
ODS code M91007
1.6 km
STREETS CORNER SURGERY
79-81 LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91009
1.9 km
WALSALL WOOD HEALTH CENTRE
LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91639
1.9 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
3.4 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
HIGH STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LX
ODS code M91654
3.5 km
NEW ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JG
ODS code M91609
4.1 km
HOLLAND PARK SURGERY
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91626
4.1 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91006
4.1 km
HARDEN HEALTH CENTRE
HARDEN ROAD, LEAMORE, WALSALL, WS3 1ET
ODS code M91036
4.2 km
HARDEN BLAKENALL
BLAKENHALL VILLAGE CENTRE, THAMES ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 1LZ
ODS code Y02627
4.2 km
BLACKWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
BLACKWOOD ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B74 3PL
ODS code M91637
4.3 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
4.7 km
UMBRELLA MEDICAL
1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91015
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Struggling Monkey
BCT · Leighswood
- 0.2 miles
Sussex Avenue
BCT · Leighswood
- 0.2 miles
Sussex Avenue
BCT · Leighswood
- 0.2 miles
Shenstone Drive
BCT · Leighswood
- 0.3 miles
Shenstone Drive
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,169 published events cover 12 months, averaging 97.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 432 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.