Schools
73 open schools are in scope, including 51 primary and 7 secondary schools. Abbey Primary School is the nearest published school at 906 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV11 2RJ
Essington · South Staffordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wolverhampton
- 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 2RJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV11
- Postcode sector
- WV11 2
- Latitude
- 52.632272
- Longitude
- -2.028511
- British National Grid easting
- 398,167
- British National Grid northing
- 303,834
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
- E00150983
- Lower layer super output area
- South Staffordshire 007A · E01029632
- 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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 223, Broad Lane, Essington, Wolverhampton, WV11 2RJ | 13 June 2003 | £562,930 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 73
- Primary
- 51
- Secondary
- 7
- 906 m
Abbey Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Jubilee Academy Mossley
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
Landywood Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 768
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 270
- Shoplifting 188
- Criminal damage and arson 75
- Other theft 55
- Vehicle crime 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- WV11 2 residents
- 11,366
8 female, 10 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 0.2% 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+
- 87.5%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 62.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 62.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 62.5%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 87.5%
- 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
24
within 5 km
MOSSLEY & DUDLEY FIELDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 FISHER ROAD, MOSSLEY, WALSALL, WS3 2TA
ODS code M91029
1.5 km
ESSINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
HOBNOCK ROAD, ESSINGTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2RF
ODS code Y02594
1.9 km
SINA HEALTH CENTRE
230 COPPICE FARM WAY, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5XZ
ODS code M91003
2.0 km
LOWER FARM HEALTH CENTRE
109 BUXTON ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3RT
ODS code M91623
2.1 km
NEW INVENTION HEALTH CENTRE
66 CANNOCK ROAD, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5RZ
ODS code M91016
2.6 km
BLOXWICH MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91034
2.8 km
KHAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91602
2.8 km
PILLAI
THE PINFOLD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91647
2.8 km
PINFOLD MEDICAL
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91650
2.8 km
ST MARY'S SURGERY
FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91612
2.8 km
QUINTON PRACTICE
WARDLES LANE, GREAT WYRLEY, WALSALL, WS6 6EW
ODS code M83608
2.9 km
ASHMORE PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2LH
ODS code M92022
2.9 km
SOUTHFIELD WAY SURGERY
2A SOUTHFIELD WAY, GREAT WYRLEY, WALSALL, WS6 6JZ
ODS code M83698
3.0 km
THE NILE PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, CHESLYN HAY, WALSALL, WS6 7AE
ODS code M83048
3.2 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
THE SURGERY, HIGH STREET, CHESLYN HAY, WALSALL, WS6 7AB
ODS code M83016
3.2 km
GRIFFITHS DRIVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
75 GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2JN
ODS code M92026
3.2 km
HARDEN BLAKENALL
BLAKENHALL VILLAGE CENTRE, THAMES ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 1LZ
ODS code Y02627
3.4 km
BEECHDALE CENTRE
EDISON ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 7HS
ODS code M91611
3.9 km
HARDEN HEALTH CENTRE
HARDEN ROAD, LEAMORE, WALSALL, WS3 1ET
ODS code M91036
3.9 km
CHAPEL STREET SURGERY
1 CHAPEL STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LN
ODS code M91024
4.1 km
Showing 20 of 24 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
- 0.5 miles
Tintern Crescent
BCT · Mossley
- 0.6 miles
Glastonbury Crescent
BCT · Mossley
- 0.6 miles
Bloxwich North Rail Station
RSE · Bloxwich
- 0.6 miles
Glastonbury Crescent
BCT · Mossley
- 0.7 miles
Bloxwich North Rail Station
RSE · Bloxwich
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Staffordshire 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,449 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
768 published events cover 12 months, averaging 64 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 270 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.