Schools
141 open schools are in scope, including 87 primary and 20 secondary schools. Barcroft Academy is the nearest published school at 534 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV12 4HG
Short Heath · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Short Heath
- Local authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton North East
- Postcode district
- WV12
- Postcode sector
- WV12 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV12 4HG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- 1 December 1986
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV12
- Postcode sector
- WV12 4
- Latitude
- 52.593306
- Longitude
- -2.042761
- British National Grid easting
- 397,200
- British National Grid northing
- 299,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Walsall · E08000030
- Electoral ward
- Short Heath · E05016449
- Parish or community
- E43000184
- Westminster constituency
- Wolverhampton North East · E14001594
- Output area
- E00052434
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 020A · E01010376
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 020 · E02002129
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 WV12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 141
- Primary
- 87
- Secondary
- 20
- 534 m
Barcroft Academy
Academy converter
- 688 m
Short Heath Junior School
Community school
- 767 m
New Leaf School
Academy alternative provision sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,526
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,481
- Criminal damage and arson 424
- Vehicle crime 366
- Shoplifting 320
- Public order 176
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WV12 4 residents
- 10,414
Age bands in WV12 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 23%
1,815 residents
1,080 residents
2,639 residents
2,731 residents
2,464 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
52
within 5 km straight-line
LOCKFIELD SURGERY
WILLENHALL HEALTH CENTRE, CROFT STREET, WILLENHALL, WV13 2DR
ODS code M91013
1.3 km
LOCKSTOWN PRACTICE
WILLENHALL MEDICAL CENTRE, GOMER STREET, WILLENHALL, WV13 2DR
ODS code M91021
1.3 km
WILLENHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
CROFT STREET, WILLENHALL, WV13 2DR
ODS code M91033
1.3 km
MODALITY KINGFISHER DARLASTON PRACTICE
BENTLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCHILL ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 0BA
ODS code M91028
1.3 km
STROUD PRACTICE
BENTLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCHILL ROAD, BENTLEY, WALSALL, WS2 0BA
ODS code M91614
1.3 km
THE KEYS FAMILY PRACTICE
WILLENHALL MEDICAL CENTRE, FIELD STREET, WILLENHALL, WV13 2NY
ODS code Y02626
1.5 km
NEW INVENTION HEALTH CENTRE
66 CANNOCK ROAD, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5RZ
ODS code M91016
1.8 km
ROUGH HAY SURGERY
44B ROUGH HAY ROAD, DARLASTON, WEDNESBURY, WS10 8NQ
ODS code M91640
2.3 km
BEECHDALE CENTRE
EDISON ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 7HS
ODS code M91611
2.4 km
ASHMORE PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2LH
ODS code M92022
2.5 km
GRIFFITHS DRIVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
75 GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2JN
ODS code M92026
2.6 km
SINA HEALTH CENTRE
230 COPPICE FARM WAY, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5XZ
ODS code M91003
2.8 km
DARLASTON FAMILY PRACTICE
PINFOLD STREET, DARLASTON, WEDNESBURY, WS10 8SY
ODS code M91026
3.0 km
DARLASTON HEALTH CENTRE
PINFOLD STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 8SY
ODS code Y00278
3.0 km
DARLASTON MEDICAL CENTRE
BIRMINGHAM STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 9JQ
ODS code M91641
3.1 km
BIRCHILLS HEALTH CENTRE
23-37 OLD BIRCHILLS, WALSALL, WS2 8QH
ODS code M91629
3.2 km
FORRESTER STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FORRESTER STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9PL
ODS code M91613
3.3 km
BILSTON FAMILY PRACTICE
PROUDS LANE, BILSTON, WV14 6PW
ODS code M92627
3.6 km
DR MUDIGONDA
PROUDS LANE, BILSTON, WV14 6PW
ODS code M92649
3.6 km
IMPROVING HEALTH (IH) MEDICAL
PROUDS LANE, BILSTON, WV14 6PW
ODS code M92015
3.6 km
Showing 20 of 52 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Sandbeds Road
BCT · Lodge Farm
- 0.1 miles
Ashmore Lake Way
BCT · Lodge Farm
- 0.1 miles
Stringes Close
BCT · Spring Bank
- 0.2 miles
Ashmore Lake Way
BCT · Lodge Farm
- 0.2 miles
Ensbury Close
BCT · Lodge Farm
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 020A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
20,103 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
3,526 published events cover 12 months, averaging 293.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,481 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.