Schools
66 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 10 secondary schools. Bushbury School is the nearest published school at 671 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV3 8DB
Bushbury North · Wolverhampton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bushbury North
- Local authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton North East
- Postcode district
- WV3
- Postcode sector
- WV3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV3 8DB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1986
- Terminated
- 1 December 1986
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV3
- Postcode sector
- WV3 8
- Latitude
- 52.628321
- Longitude
- -2.110755
- British National Grid easting
- 392,600
- British National Grid northing
- 303,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Wolverhampton · E08000031
- Electoral ward
- Bushbury North · E05014841
- Parish or community
- E43000185
- Westminster constituency
- Wolverhampton North East · E14001594
- Output area
- E00052694
- Lower layer super output area
- Wolverhampton 001E · E01010439
- Middle layer super output area
- Wolverhampton 001 · E02002149
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
- 66
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 10
- 671 m
Bushbury School
Other independent special school
- 674 m
Woodbury School
Other independent special school
- 899 m
Northwood Park Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,472
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 660
- Shoplifting 193
- Criminal damage and arson 136
- Vehicle crime 121
- Other theft 84
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
23
within 5 km straight-line
PRESTBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
BROADWAY, BUSHBURY, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 8EA
ODS code M92009
729 m
ASHFIELD ROAD SURGERY
39 ASHFIELD ROAD, FORDHOUSES, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6QX
ODS code M92609
1.5 km
FORDHOUSES MEDICAL CENTRE
68 MARSH LANE, FORD HOUSES, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6RU
ODS code M92629
1.6 km
KEATS GROVE SURGERY
17 KEATS GROVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 8LY
ODS code M92019
1.7 km
PROBERT ROAD SURGERY
470 STAFFORD ROAD, OXLEY, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6AR
ODS code M92041
1.7 km
PRIMROSE LANE PRACTICE
WOLVERHAMPTON P C T, PRIMROSE LANE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 8RN
ODS code M92004
1.9 km
POPLARS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE POPLARS, THIRD AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9PG
ODS code M92001
2.0 km
DR ST PIERRE-LIBBERTON
60-62 CANNOCK ROAD, WEDNESFIELD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 8PJ
ODS code M92039
2.1 km
BAGARY'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOW HILL MEDICAL CENTRE, 191 FIRST AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9SX
ODS code M92654
2.1 km
SHOWELL PARK HEALTH CENTRE
FIFTH AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9ST
ODS code Y02736
2.3 km
FEATHERSTONE
OLD LANE, FEATHERSTONE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 7BS
ODS code M83715
2.4 km
GRIFFITHS DRIVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
75 GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2JN
ODS code M92026
3.7 km
ESSINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
HOBNOCK ROAD, ESSINGTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2RF
ODS code Y02594
3.7 km
DR SINHA & TAHIR
WODEN ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 0BD
ODS code M92013
3.9 km
TUDOR MEDICAL CENTRE
1 TUDOR ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 0LS
ODS code M92016
3.9 km
ASHMORE PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2LH
ODS code M92022
3.9 km
WHITMORE REANS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWE STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0QL
ODS code M92607
4.2 km
SINA HEALTH CENTRE
230 COPPICE FARM WAY, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5XZ
ODS code M91003
4.4 km
TETTENHALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWER STREET, TETTENHALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 9LL
ODS code M92010
4.5 km
THORNLEY STREET SURGERY
40-44 THORNLEY STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV1 1JP
ODS code M92028
4.6 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Wentworth Road
BCT · Northwood Park
- 0.0 miles
Wentworth Road
BCT · Northwood Park
- 0.1 miles
Westering Parkway
BCT · Northwood Park
- 0.1 miles
Westering Parkway
BCT · Northwood Park
- 0.1 miles
Egerton Road
BCT · Northwood Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wolverhampton 001E, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
6,958 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,472 published events cover 12 months, averaging 122.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 660 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.