Schools
53 open schools are in scope, including 37 primary and 8 secondary schools. Featherstone Academy is the nearest published school at 946 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV10 7HJ
Essington · South Staffordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Essington
- Local authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge
- Postcode district
- WV10
- Postcode sector
- WV10 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV10 7HJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV10
- Postcode sector
- WV10 7
- Latitude
- 52.634649
- Longitude
- -2.090513
- British National Grid easting
- 393,971
- British National Grid northing
- 304,102
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- South Staffordshire · E07000196
- Electoral ward
- Essington · E05015058
- Parish or community
- E04008964
- Westminster constituency
- Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge · E14001523
- Output area
- E00150993
- Lower layer super output area
- South Staffordshire 007B · E01029633
- Middle layer super output area
- South Staffordshire 007 · E02006180
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 WV10
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 53
- Primary
- 37
- Secondary
- 8
- 946 m
Featherstone Academy
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Westcroft School
Academy special converter
- 1.7 km
Berrybrook Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 320
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 146
- Anti social behaviour 32
- Other theft 26
- Vehicle crime 26
- Public order 19
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WV10 7 residents
- 9,375
Age bands in WV10 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 9.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.8%
908 residents
1,282 residents
3,132 residents
2,503 residents
1,464 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
20
within 5 km straight-line
FEATHERSTONE
OLD LANE, FEATHERSTONE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 7BS
ODS code M83715
1.2 km
PRESTBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
BROADWAY, BUSHBURY, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 8EA
ODS code M92009
2.2 km
ESSINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
HOBNOCK ROAD, ESSINGTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2RF
ODS code Y02594
2.3 km
KEATS GROVE SURGERY
17 KEATS GROVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 8LY
ODS code M92019
2.3 km
PRIMROSE LANE PRACTICE
WOLVERHAMPTON P C T, PRIMROSE LANE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 8RN
ODS code M92004
2.5 km
DR ST PIERRE-LIBBERTON
60-62 CANNOCK ROAD, WEDNESFIELD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 8PJ
ODS code M92039
2.8 km
ASHFIELD ROAD SURGERY
39 ASHFIELD ROAD, FORDHOUSES, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6QX
ODS code M92609
3.0 km
GRIFFITHS DRIVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
75 GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2JN
ODS code M92026
3.1 km
POPLARS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE POPLARS, THIRD AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9PG
ODS code M92001
3.1 km
FORDHOUSES MEDICAL CENTRE
68 MARSH LANE, FORD HOUSES, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6RU
ODS code M92629
3.2 km
ASHMORE PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2LH
ODS code M92022
3.2 km
PROBERT ROAD SURGERY
470 STAFFORD ROAD, OXLEY, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6AR
ODS code M92041
3.2 km
BAGARY'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOW HILL MEDICAL CENTRE, 191 FIRST AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9SX
ODS code M92654
3.3 km
SINA HEALTH CENTRE
230 COPPICE FARM WAY, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5XZ
ODS code M91003
3.4 km
SHOWELL PARK HEALTH CENTRE
FIFTH AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9ST
ODS code Y02736
3.5 km
NEW INVENTION HEALTH CENTRE
66 CANNOCK ROAD, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5RZ
ODS code M91016
4.4 km
THE NILE PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, CHESLYN HAY, WALSALL, WS6 7AE
ODS code M83048
4.6 km
TUDOR MEDICAL CENTRE
1 TUDOR ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 0LS
ODS code M92016
4.6 km
DR SINHA & TAHIR
WODEN ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 0BD
ODS code M92013
4.8 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
THE SURGERY, HIGH STREET, CHESLYN HAY, WALSALL, WS6 7AB
ODS code M83016
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hilton Cross Business Park
BCT · Featherstone
- 0.2 miles
Hilton Cross Business Park
BCT · Featherstone
- 0.2 miles
Moseley Road
BCT · Westcroft
- 0.2 miles
Moseley Road
BCT · Westcroft
- 0.4 miles
No. 91
BCT · Westcroft
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Staffordshire 007B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,799 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
320 published events cover 12 months, averaging 26.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 146 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.