Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 6 secondary schools. Shire Oak Academy is the nearest published school at 735 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS9 9EZ
Aldridge North & Walsall Wood · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Aldridge-Brownhills
- Postcode district
- WS9
- Postcode sector
- WS9 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS9 9EZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 October 2004
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS9
- Postcode sector
- WS9 9
- Latitude
- 52.631945
- Longitude
- -1.911537
- British National Grid easting
- 406,084
- British National Grid northing
- 303,801
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Walsall · E08000030
- Electoral ward
- Aldridge North & Walsall Wood · E05016434
- Parish or community
- E43000184
- Westminster constituency
- Aldridge-Brownhills · E14001064
- Output area
- E00051816
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 007A · E01010251
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 007 · E02002116
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
- 33
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 6
- 735 m
Shire Oak Academy
Academy converter
- 780 m
Castlefort Academy
Academy converter
- 879 m
Oakwood School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,089
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 437
- Shoplifting 133
- Vehicle crime 119
- Criminal damage and arson 105
- Other theft 57
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS9 9 residents
- 8,526
Age bands in WS9 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.2%
1,387 residents
958 residents
1,953 residents
2,581 residents
1,855 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
12
within 5 km straight-line
STREETS CORNER SURGERY
79-81 LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91009
1.1 km
WALSALL WOOD HEALTH CENTRE
LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91639
1.1 km
ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9LP
ODS code M91007
1.6 km
HOLLAND PARK SURGERY
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91626
2.5 km
PARKSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91006
2.5 km
NEW ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JG
ODS code M91609
2.6 km
NORTHGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
ANCHOR MEADOW, ALDRIDGE, WALSALL, WS9 8AJ
ODS code M91017
3.3 km
PORTLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
ANCHOR MEADOW, ALDRIDGE, WALSALL, WS9 8AJ
ODS code M91010
3.3 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
3.9 km
RUSHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
107 LICHFIELD ROAD, RUSHALL, WALSALL, WS4 1HB
ODS code M91019
4.2 km
DARWIN MEDICAL PRACTICE
GREENWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, LICHFIELD ROAD, BURNTWOOD, WS7 0AQ
ODS code M83617
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Fishpond Cottages
BCT · Castlefort
- 0.3 miles
Shire Oak Close
BCT · Shire Oak
- 0.3 miles
Shire Oak Close
BCT · Shire Oak
- 0.4 miles
Shire Oak House
BCT · Shire Oak
- 0.4 miles
Shire Oak Hill
BCT · Shire Oak
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 007A, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,143 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
1,089 published events cover 12 months, averaging 90.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 437 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.