Schools
53 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 11 secondary schools. Perton Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 306 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV6 7PR
Perton Lakeside · South Staffordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Perton Lakeside
- Local authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
- Postcode district
- WV6
- Postcode sector
- WV6 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV6 7PR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- 1 August 2001
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV6
- Postcode sector
- WV6 7
- Latitude
- 52.594613
- Longitude
- -2.202700
- British National Grid easting
- 386,366
- British National Grid northing
- 299,664
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- South Staffordshire · E07000196
- Electoral ward
- Perton Lakeside · E05015070
- Parish or community
- E04008976
- Westminster constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire · E14001316
- Output area
- E00151144
- Lower layer super output area
- South Staffordshire 015B · E01029666
- Middle layer super output area
- South Staffordshire 015 · E02006982
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 WV6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 53
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 11
- 306 m
Perton Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 415 m
Perton First School
Community school
- 881 m
Perton Middle School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 652
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 368
- Anti social behaviour 63
- Other theft 39
- Criminal damage and arson 39
- Public order 32
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WV6 7 residents
- 12,579
Age bands in WV6 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.4%
1,913 residents
1,153 residents
2,831 residents
3,688 residents
3,090 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
LAKESIDE
LAKESIDE MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7PD
ODS code M83132
117 m
TAMAR MEDICAL CENTRE
SEVERN DRIVE, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7QU
ODS code M83668
117 m
CASTLECROFT MEDICAL PRACTICE
CASTLECROFT AVENUE, CASTLECROFT, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 8JN
ODS code M92008
2.0 km
TETTENHALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWER STREET, TETTENHALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 9LL
ODS code M92010
3.0 km
NEWBRIDGE SURGERY
255 TETTENHALL ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0DE
ODS code M92029
3.2 km
RUSSELL HOUSE SURGERY
BUSINESS HUB, WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD, CODSALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV8 1PE
ODS code M83031
3.5 km
BILBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
BROOKFIELD ROAD, BILBROOK, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV8 1DX
ODS code M83097
3.6 km
COALWAY ROAD SURGERY
WARSTONES HEALTH CENTRE, PINFOLD GROVE, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV4 4PS
ODS code M92006
3.7 km
WHITMORE REANS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWE STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0QL
ODS code M92607
4.1 km
PENN SURGERY
2A COALWAY ROAD, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 7LX
ODS code M92043
4.7 km
PENNFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
UPPER ZOAR STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 0JH
ODS code Y02636
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sainsbury's Store
BCT · Perton
- 0.2 miles
Severn Drive
BCT · Perton
- 0.2 miles
Severn Drive
BCT · Perton
- 0.2 miles
Richmond Drive
BCT · Perton
- 0.2 miles
Richmond Drive
BCT · Perton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Staffordshire 015B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,139 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
652 published events cover 12 months, averaging 54.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 368 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.