Schools
71 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 10 secondary schools. Penn Fields School is the nearest published school at 532 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV4 4ZB
Merry Hill · Wolverhampton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Merry Hill
- Local authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton West
- Postcode district
- WV4
- Postcode sector
- WV4 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV4 4ZB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1999
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV4
- Postcode sector
- WV4 4
- Latitude
- 52.570703
- Longitude
- -2.178480
- British National Grid easting
- 388,000
- British National Grid northing
- 297,000
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
- E00052978
- Lower layer super output area
- Wolverhampton 028A · E01010489
- Middle layer super output area
- Wolverhampton 028 · E02002176
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 WV4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 71
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 10
- 532 m
Penn Fields School
Community special school
- 556 m
Bhylls Acre Primary School
Academy converter
- 573 m
Highfields School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,165
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 525
- Vehicle crime 115
- Criminal damage and arson 106
- Other theft 76
- Burglary 72
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WV4 4 residents
- 13,272
Age bands in WV4 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.1%
2,421 residents
1,415 residents
3,280 residents
3,580 residents
2,694 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
16
within 5 km straight-line
COALWAY ROAD SURGERY
WARSTONES HEALTH CENTRE, PINFOLD GROVE, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV4 4PS
ODS code M92006
738 m
CASTLECROFT MEDICAL PRACTICE
CASTLECROFT AVENUE, CASTLECROFT, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 8JN
ODS code M92008
1.2 km
PENN SURGERY
2A COALWAY ROAD, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 7LX
ODS code M92043
2.2 km
RWT PRACTICES PENN MANOR MEDICAL CENTRE
MANOR ROAD, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV4 5PY
ODS code M92011
2.3 km
PENNFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
UPPER ZOAR STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 0JH
ODS code Y02636
2.9 km
NEWBRIDGE SURGERY
255 TETTENHALL ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0DE
ODS code M92029
3.0 km
TAMAR MEDICAL CENTRE
SEVERN DRIVE, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7QU
ODS code M83668
3.0 km
LAKESIDE
LAKESIDE MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7PD
ODS code M83132
3.2 km
DUNCAN STREET PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
DUNCAN STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2 3AN
ODS code M92012
3.5 km
TETTENHALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWER STREET, TETTENHALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 9LL
ODS code M92010
3.6 km
WHITMORE REANS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWE STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0QL
ODS code M92607
3.7 km
THORNLEY STREET SURGERY
40-44 THORNLEY STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV1 1JP
ODS code M92028
4.1 km
NORTHWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
7-8 ALDERWOOD PRECINCT, SEDGLEY, DUDLEY, DY3 3QY
ODS code M87037
4.1 km
GRAVEL HILL SURGERY
GRAVEL HILL, WOMBOURNE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV5 9HA
ODS code M83018
4.1 km
HEALTH AND BEYOND
175 STEELHOUSE LANE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2 2AU
ODS code M92612
4.3 km
DALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PLANKS LANE, WOMBOURNE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV5 8DX
ODS code M83093
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Fareham Crescent
BCT · Merry Hill
- 0.3 miles
Five Ways
BCT · Merry Hill
- 0.3 miles
Five Ways
BCT · Merry Hill
- 0.3 miles
Swancote Drive
BCT · Warstones
- 0.3 miles
Highfields School
BCT · Warstones
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wolverhampton 028A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,885 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,165 published events cover 12 months, averaging 97.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 525 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.