Schools
81 open schools are in scope, including 51 primary and 11 secondary schools. Westcroft School is the nearest published school at 805 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV11 2BB
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
- WV11
- Postcode sector
- WV11 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV11 2BB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV11
- Postcode sector
- WV11 2
- Latitude
- 52.620029
- Longitude
- -2.081797
- British National Grid easting
- 394,559
- British National Grid northing
- 302,475
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 WV11
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 81
- Primary
- 51
- Secondary
- 11
- 805 m
Westcroft School
Academy special converter
- 929 m
Berrybrook Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 968 m
Long Knowle Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,535
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 702
- Shoplifting 160
- Criminal damage and arson 150
- Vehicle crime 117
- Anti social behaviour 78
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 12
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 4.0
- WV11 2 residents
- 11,366
6 female, 6 male
Age bands in WV11 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.4%
2,038 residents
1,173 residents
2,736 residents
3,157 residents
2,327 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WV11 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
27
within 5 km
KEATS GROVE SURGERY
17 KEATS GROVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 8LY
ODS code M92019
1.3 km
GRIFFITHS DRIVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
75 GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2JN
ODS code M92026
1.5 km
PRIMROSE LANE PRACTICE
WOLVERHAMPTON P C T, PRIMROSE LANE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 8RN
ODS code M92004
1.5 km
DR ST PIERRE-LIBBERTON
60-62 CANNOCK ROAD, WEDNESFIELD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 8PJ
ODS code M92039
1.6 km
ASHMORE PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2LH
ODS code M92022
1.8 km
ESSINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
HOBNOCK ROAD, ESSINGTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2RF
ODS code Y02594
2.1 km
SINA HEALTH CENTRE
230 COPPICE FARM WAY, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5XZ
ODS code M91003
2.3 km
POPLARS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE POPLARS, THIRD AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9PG
ODS code M92001
2.4 km
PRESTBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
BROADWAY, BUSHBURY, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 8EA
ODS code M92009
2.4 km
BAGARY'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOW HILL MEDICAL CENTRE, 191 FIRST AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9SX
ODS code M92654
2.5 km
SHOWELL PARK HEALTH CENTRE
FIFTH AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9ST
ODS code Y02736
2.8 km
FEATHERSTONE
OLD LANE, FEATHERSTONE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 7BS
ODS code M83715
2.9 km
NEW INVENTION HEALTH CENTRE
66 CANNOCK ROAD, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5RZ
ODS code M91016
3.0 km
TUDOR MEDICAL CENTRE
1 TUDOR ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 0LS
ODS code M92016
3.3 km
PROBERT ROAD SURGERY
470 STAFFORD ROAD, OXLEY, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6AR
ODS code M92041
3.3 km
FORDHOUSES MEDICAL CENTRE
68 MARSH LANE, FORD HOUSES, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6RU
ODS code M92629
3.4 km
ASHFIELD ROAD SURGERY
39 ASHFIELD ROAD, FORDHOUSES, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6QX
ODS code M92609
3.5 km
DR SINHA & TAHIR
WODEN ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 0BD
ODS code M92013
3.5 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
JONESFIELD CRESCENT, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV1 2LW
ODS code M92630
3.9 km
MAYFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
272 WILLENHALL ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV1 2GZ
ODS code M92040
4.2 km
Showing 20 of 27 matching practices.
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
- 0.3 miles
Wood Hayes Road
BCT · Long Knowle
- 0.4 miles
Wood Hayes Road
BCT · Long Knowle
- 0.4 miles
Wood Hayes Road
BCT · Westcroft
- 0.4 miles
Wood Hayes Road
BCT · Westcroft
- 0.5 miles
Blackwood Avenue
BCT · Long Knowle
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.
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
1,535 published events cover 12 months, averaging 127.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 702 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.