Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 4 secondary schools. Cherry Trees School is the nearest published school at 861 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV5 8AN
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 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV5 8AN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV5
- Postcode sector
- WV5 8
- Latitude
- 52.526853
- Longitude
- -2.209684
- British National Grid easting
- 385,871
- British National Grid northing
- 292,128
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
- 22
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 4
- 861 m
Cherry Trees School
Academy special converter
- 1.1 km
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Blakeley Heath Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 451
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 218
- Anti social behaviour 42
- Criminal damage and arson 32
- Public order 29
- Vehicle crime 29
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WV5 8 residents
- 3,685
Age bands in WV5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 33.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.7%
524 residents
385 residents
744 residents
1,290 residents
913 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.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
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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
4.3 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
- 0.3 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.
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
- 1
- 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
451 published events cover 12 months, averaging 37.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 218 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.