Schools
100 open schools are in scope, including 64 primary and 13 secondary schools. Beacon Academy is the nearest published school at 531 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV12 5DQ
New Invention · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Willenhall
- Ward
- New Invention
- Local authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton North East
- Postcode district
- WV12
- Postcode sector
- WV12 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV12 5DQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV12
- Postcode sector
- WV12 5
- Latitude
- 52.617371
- Longitude
- -2.043966
- British National Grid easting
- 397,120
- British National Grid northing
- 302,177
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Walsall · E08000030
- Electoral ward
- New Invention · E05016442
- Parish or community
- E43000184
- Westminster constituency
- Wolverhampton North East · E14001594
- Output area
- E00052519
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 011D · E01010399
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 011 · E02002120
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
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Falcondale Road, Willenhall, WV12 5DQ | 31 March 2016 | £128,000 |
| 4, Falcondale Road, Willenhall, WV12 5DQ | 30 April 2009 | £117,000 |
| 16, Falcondale Road, Willenhall, WV12 5DQ | 27 July 2001 | £64,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 100
- Primary
- 64
- Secondary
- 13
- 531 m
Beacon Academy
Academy converter
- 643 m
St Alban's Church of England Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 924 m
New Invention Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,859
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 930
- Criminal damage and arson 191
- Vehicle crime 170
- Shoplifting 119
- Anti social behaviour 99
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- WV12 5 residents
- 15,175
9 female, 11 male
Age bands in WV12 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.1%
2,702 residents
1,728 residents
3,669 residents
3,963 residents
3,040 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WV12 5 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
38
within 5 km
SINA HEALTH CENTRE
230 COPPICE FARM WAY, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5XZ
ODS code M91003
272 m
NEW INVENTION HEALTH CENTRE
66 CANNOCK ROAD, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5RZ
ODS code M91016
905 m
ASHMORE PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2LH
ODS code M92022
1.0 km
GRIFFITHS DRIVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
75 GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2JN
ODS code M92026
1.4 km
ESSINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
HOBNOCK ROAD, ESSINGTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2RF
ODS code Y02594
1.8 km
MOSSLEY & DUDLEY FIELDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
3 FISHER ROAD, MOSSLEY, WALSALL, WS3 2TA
ODS code M91029
1.9 km
BLOXWICH MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91034
3.0 km
KHAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91602
3.0 km
PILLAI
THE PINFOLD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91647
3.0 km
PINFOLD MEDICAL
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91650
3.0 km
ST MARY'S SURGERY
FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91612
3.0 km
BEECHDALE CENTRE
EDISON ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 7HS
ODS code M91611
3.1 km
LOWER FARM HEALTH CENTRE
109 BUXTON ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3RT
ODS code M91623
3.3 km
MODALITY KINGFISHER DARLASTON PRACTICE
BENTLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCHILL ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 0BA
ODS code M91028
3.4 km
STROUD PRACTICE
BENTLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCHILL ROAD, BENTLEY, WALSALL, WS2 0BA
ODS code M91614
3.4 km
LOCKFIELD SURGERY
WILLENHALL HEALTH CENTRE, CROFT STREET, WILLENHALL, WV13 2DR
ODS code M91013
3.7 km
LOCKSTOWN PRACTICE
WILLENHALL MEDICAL CENTRE, GOMER STREET, WILLENHALL, WV13 2DR
ODS code M91021
3.7 km
WILLENHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
CROFT STREET, WILLENHALL, WV13 2DR
ODS code M91033
3.7 km
KEATS GROVE SURGERY
17 KEATS GROVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 8LY
ODS code M92019
3.8 km
THE KEYS FAMILY PRACTICE
WILLENHALL MEDICAL CENTRE, FIELD STREET, WILLENHALL, WV13 2NY
ODS code Y02626
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 38 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
- 0.0 miles
Reedly Road
BCT · Coppice Farm
- 0.1 miles
Reedly Road
BCT · Coppice Farm
- 0.1 miles
Dorchester Road
BCT · Coppice Farm
- 0.1 miles
Dorchester Road
BCT · Coppice Farm
- 0.1 miles
The Milestone
BCT · Allens Rough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 011D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,653 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
1,859 published events cover 12 months, averaging 154.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 930 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.