Schools
59 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 9 secondary schools. Smestow Academy is the nearest published school at 565 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV3 8JY
Tettenhall Wightwick · Wolverhampton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Tettenhall Wightwick
- Local authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton West
- Postcode district
- WV3
- Postcode sector
- WV3 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV3 8JY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1983
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV3
- Postcode sector
- WV3 8
- Latitude
- 52.580569
- Longitude
- -2.193279
- British National Grid easting
- 387,000
- British National Grid northing
- 298,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Wolverhampton · E08000031
- Electoral ward
- Tettenhall Wightwick · E05014855
- Parish or community
- E43000185
- Westminster constituency
- Wolverhampton West · E14001596
- Output area
- E00053271
- Lower layer super output area
- Wolverhampton 019B · E01010550
- Middle layer super output area
- Wolverhampton 019 · E02002167
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
- 59
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 9
- 565 m
Smestow Academy
Academy converter
- 712 m
Wightwick Hall School
Academy special converter
- 725 m
Castlecroft Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 671
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 262
- Shoplifting 153
- Vehicle crime 47
- Criminal damage and arson 41
- Other theft 39
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
14
within 5 km straight-line
CASTLECROFT MEDICAL PRACTICE
CASTLECROFT AVENUE, CASTLECROFT, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 8JN
ODS code M92008
308 m
TAMAR MEDICAL CENTRE
SEVERN DRIVE, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7QU
ODS code M83668
1.6 km
LAKESIDE
LAKESIDE MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7PD
ODS code M83132
1.8 km
COALWAY ROAD SURGERY
WARSTONES HEALTH CENTRE, PINFOLD GROVE, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV4 4PS
ODS code M92006
2.1 km
NEWBRIDGE SURGERY
255 TETTENHALL ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0DE
ODS code M92029
3.0 km
TETTENHALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWER STREET, TETTENHALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 9LL
ODS code M92010
3.2 km
PENN SURGERY
2A COALWAY ROAD, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 7LX
ODS code M92043
3.4 km
RWT PRACTICES PENN MANOR MEDICAL CENTRE
MANOR ROAD, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV4 5PY
ODS code M92011
3.8 km
PENNFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
UPPER ZOAR STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 0JH
ODS code Y02636
3.8 km
WHITMORE REANS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWE STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0QL
ODS code M92607
3.8 km
DUNCAN STREET PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
DUNCAN STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2 3AN
ODS code M92012
4.6 km
THORNLEY STREET SURGERY
40-44 THORNLEY STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV1 1JP
ODS code M92028
4.7 km
RUSSELL HOUSE SURGERY
BUSINESS HUB, WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD, CODSALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV8 1PE
ODS code M83031
4.9 km
BILBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
BROOKFIELD ROAD, BILBROOK, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV8 1DX
ODS code M83097
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Wightwick Bank
BCT · Wightwick
- 0.1 miles
Wightwick Bank
BCT · Wightwick
- 0.2 miles
Ashenden Rise
BCT · Castlecroft
- 0.2 miles
Tinacre Hill
BCT · Wightwick
- 0.2 miles
Castlecroft Road
BCT · Castlecroft
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wolverhampton 019B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,942 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
671 published events cover 12 months, averaging 55.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 262 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.