Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 4 secondary schools. Cherry Trees School is the nearest published school at 852 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV5 0WA
Wombourne South · South Staffordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Wombourne South
- Local authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
- Postcode district
- WV5
- Postcode sector
- WV5 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV5 0WA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 2000
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV5
- Postcode sector
- WV5 0
- Latitude
- 52.526602
- Longitude
- -2.209255
- British National Grid easting
- 385,900
- British National Grid northing
- 292,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- South Staffordshire · E07000196
- Electoral ward
- Wombourne South · E05015073
- Parish or community
- E04008982
- Westminster constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire · E14001316
- Output area
- E00151231
- Lower layer super output area
- South Staffordshire 012E · E01029680
- 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 WV5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 4
- 852 m
Cherry Trees School
Academy special converter
- 1.1 km
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Blakeley Heath Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 458
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 224
- Anti social behaviour 42
- Criminal damage and arson 32
- Public order 30
- Vehicle crime 29
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WV5 0 residents
- 5,769
Age bands in WV5 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.3%
951 residents
524 residents
1,327 residents
1,588 residents
1,406 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
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within 5 km straight-line
DALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PLANKS LANE, WOMBOURNE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV5 8DX
ODS code M83093
1.1 km
GRAVEL HILL SURGERY
GRAVEL HILL, WOMBOURNE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV5 9HA
ODS code M83018
1.8 km
MOSS GROVE SURGERY
15 MOSS GROVE, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 9HS
ODS code M87003
4.1 km
THE SUMMERHILL SURGERY
SUMMERHILL, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 9JG
ODS code M87018
4.2 km
KINGSWINFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
KINGSWINFORD HEALTH CENTRE, STANDHILLS ROAD, KINGSWINFORD, DY6 8DN
ODS code M87008
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Waterdale
BCT · Brickbridge
- 0.2 miles
Waterdale
BCT · Brickbridge
- 0.2 miles
Bridgnorth Avenue
BCT · Brickbridge
- 0.4 miles
Bridgnorth Avenue
BCT · Brickbridge
- 0.4 miles
Giggetty Lane
BCT · Brickbridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Staffordshire 012E, 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
22,352 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
458 published events cover 12 months, averaging 38.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 224 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.