Schools
67 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 10 secondary schools. Penn Hall School is the nearest published school at 952 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV4 5PU
Wombourne North · South Staffordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wolverhampton
- Ward
- Wombourne North
- Local authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
- Postcode district
- WV4
- Postcode sector
- WV4 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV4 5PU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2013
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV4
- Postcode sector
- WV4 5
- Latitude
- 52.551599
- Longitude
- -2.172651
- British National Grid easting
- 388,390
- British National Grid northing
- 294,874
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- South Staffordshire · E07000196
- Electoral ward
- Wombourne North · E05015072
- Parish or community
- E04008982
- Westminster constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire · E14001316
- Output area
- E00151200
- Lower layer super output area
- South Staffordshire 012B · E01029673
- Middle layer super output area
- South Staffordshire 012 · E02006185
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Fairlawns, Wolverhampton, WV4 5PU | 5 September 2014 | £700,000 |
| 1, Fairlawns, Wolverhampton, WV4 5PU | 15 November 2013 | £845,000 |
| 3, Fairlawns, Wolverhampton, WV4 5PU | 19 July 2013 | £895,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 67
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 10
- 952 m
Penn Hall School
Academy special converter
- 1.1 km
St Bartholomew's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Springdale Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 512
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 248
- Shoplifting 48
- Criminal damage and arson 48
- Vehicle crime 46
- Public order 33
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- WV4 5 residents
- 10,865
3 female, 6 male
Age bands in WV4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.1%
1,808 residents
1,095 residents
2,816 residents
3,055 residents
2,492 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WV4 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
14
within 5 km
RWT PRACTICES PENN MANOR MEDICAL CENTRE
MANOR ROAD, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV4 5PY
ODS code M92011
1.8 km
COALWAY ROAD SURGERY
WARSTONES HEALTH CENTRE, PINFOLD GROVE, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV4 4PS
ODS code M92006
2.0 km
GRAVEL HILL SURGERY
GRAVEL HILL, WOMBOURNE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV5 9HA
ODS code M83018
2.1 km
DALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PLANKS LANE, WOMBOURNE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV5 8DX
ODS code M83093
2.6 km
PENN SURGERY
2A COALWAY ROAD, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 7LX
ODS code M92043
2.6 km
NORTHWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
7-8 ALDERWOOD PRECINCT, SEDGLEY, DUDLEY, DY3 3QY
ODS code M87037
2.9 km
CASTLECROFT MEDICAL PRACTICE
CASTLECROFT AVENUE, CASTLECROFT, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 8JN
ODS code M92008
3.2 km
PENNFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
UPPER ZOAR STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 0JH
ODS code Y02636
3.8 km
THE RIDGEWAY SURGERY
175 THE RIDGEWAY, SEDGLEY, DUDLEY, DY3 3UH
ODS code M87007
3.9 km
DUNCAN STREET PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
DUNCAN STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2 3AN
ODS code M92012
4.0 km
TANDON MEDICAL CENTRE (ORAM & PARTNERS)
KENT STREET, DUDLEY, DY3 1UX
ODS code M87013
4.7 km
HEALTH AND BEYOND
175 STEELHOUSE LANE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2 2AU
ODS code M92612
4.8 km
NEWBRIDGE SURGERY
255 TETTENHALL ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0DE
ODS code M92029
4.8 km
LOWER GORNAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWER GORNAL HEALTH CENTRE, BULL STREET, GORNAL WOOD, DUDLEY, DY3 2NQ
ODS code M87015
4.8 km
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
- 0.2 miles
Miller and Carter PH
BCT · Penn Common
- 0.2 miles
Miller and Carter PH
BCT · Penn Common
- 0.3 miles
Spring Hill Lane
BCT · Warstones
- 0.4 miles
Spring Hill Lane
BCT · Warstones
- 0.4 miles
Springhill Lane
BCT · Penn
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Staffordshire 012B, 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
20,735 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
512 published events cover 12 months, averaging 42.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 248 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.