Schools
78 open schools are in scope, including 46 primary and 11 secondary schools. Uplands Junior School is the nearest published school at 238 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV3 8AT
Merry Hill · Wolverhampton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Merry Hill
- Local authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton West
- Postcode district
- WV3
- Postcode sector
- WV3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV3 8AT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV3
- Postcode sector
- WV3 8
- Latitude
- 52.577011
- Longitude
- -2.168176
- British National Grid easting
- 388,700
- British National Grid northing
- 297,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Wolverhampton · E08000031
- Electoral ward
- Merry Hill · E05014849
- Parish or community
- E43000185
- Westminster constituency
- Wolverhampton West · E14001596
- Output area
- E00052961
- Lower layer super output area
- Wolverhampton 021C · E01010493
- Middle layer super output area
- Wolverhampton 021 · E02002169
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 WV3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 78
- Primary
- 46
- Secondary
- 11
- 238 m
Uplands Junior School
Academy converter
- 498 m
St Michael's Catholic Primary Academy and Nursery
Academy converter
- 545 m
Westacre Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,768
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 767
- Shoplifting 219
- Criminal damage and arson 161
- Vehicle crime 132
- Other theft 113
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WV3 8 residents
- 6,895
Age bands in WV3 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.2%
1,106 residents
676 residents
1,505 residents
1,832 residents
1,378 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
19
within 5 km straight-line
COALWAY ROAD SURGERY
WARSTONES HEALTH CENTRE, PINFOLD GROVE, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV4 4PS
ODS code M92006
861 m
CASTLECROFT MEDICAL PRACTICE
CASTLECROFT AVENUE, CASTLECROFT, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 8JN
ODS code M92008
1.5 km
PENN SURGERY
2A COALWAY ROAD, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 7LX
ODS code M92043
1.7 km
NEWBRIDGE SURGERY
255 TETTENHALL ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0DE
ODS code M92029
2.1 km
PENNFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
UPPER ZOAR STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 0JH
ODS code Y02636
2.1 km
RWT PRACTICES PENN MANOR MEDICAL CENTRE
MANOR ROAD, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV4 5PY
ODS code M92011
2.3 km
TETTENHALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWER STREET, TETTENHALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 9LL
ODS code M92010
2.7 km
WHITMORE REANS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWE STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0QL
ODS code M92607
2.7 km
DUNCAN STREET PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
DUNCAN STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2 3AN
ODS code M92012
2.9 km
TAMAR MEDICAL CENTRE
SEVERN DRIVE, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7QU
ODS code M83668
2.9 km
THORNLEY STREET SURGERY
40-44 THORNLEY STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV1 1JP
ODS code M92028
3.1 km
LAKESIDE
LAKESIDE MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7PD
ODS code M83132
3.2 km
HEALTH AND BEYOND
175 STEELHOUSE LANE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2 2AU
ODS code M92612
3.6 km
NORTHWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
7-8 ALDERWOOD PRECINCT, SEDGLEY, DUDLEY, DY3 3QY
ODS code M87037
4.1 km
DR SINHA & TAHIR
WODEN ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 0BD
ODS code M92013
4.3 km
TUDOR MEDICAL CENTRE
1 TUDOR ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 0LS
ODS code M92016
4.8 km
SHOWELL PARK HEALTH CENTRE
FIFTH AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9ST
ODS code Y02736
4.8 km
EAST PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
JONESFIELD CRESCENT, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV1 2LW
ODS code M92630
4.9 km
GRAVEL HILL SURGERY
GRAVEL HILL, WOMBOURNE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV5 9HA
ODS code M83018
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Coppice Road
BCT · Finchfield
- 0.2 miles
Coppice Road
BCT · Finchfield
- 0.3 miles
Castlecroft Road
BCT · Finchfield
- 0.3 miles
Marnel Drive
BCT · Bradmore
- 0.3 miles
Marnel Drive
BCT · Bradmore
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wolverhampton 021C, 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
22,067 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
1,768 published events cover 12 months, averaging 147.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 767 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.