Schools
71 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 13 secondary schools. Smestow Academy is the nearest published school at 486 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV6 8AQ
Tettenhall Wightwick · Wolverhampton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Tettenhall Wightwick
- Local authority
- Wolverhampton
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton West
- Postcode district
- WV6
- Postcode sector
- WV6 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV6 8AQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 September 2011
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV6
- Postcode sector
- WV6 8
- Latitude
- 52.584589
- Longitude
- -2.180544
- British National Grid easting
- 387,864
- British National Grid northing
- 298,545
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Wolverhampton · E08000031
- Electoral ward
- Tettenhall Wightwick · E05014855
- Parish or community
- E43000185
- Westminster constituency
- Wolverhampton West · E14001596
- Output area
- E00053270
- Lower layer super output area
- Wolverhampton 019C · E01010551
- Middle layer super output area
- Wolverhampton 019 · E02002167
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
- 71
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 13
- 486 m
Smestow Academy
Academy converter
- 637 m
Castlecroft Primary School
Community school
- 642 m
Christ Church (Church of England) Infant and Nursery School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 898
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 385
- Shoplifting 153
- Vehicle crime 79
- Criminal damage and arson 63
- Other theft 61
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WV6 8 residents
- 10,659
Age bands in WV6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.8%
1,560 residents
914 residents
2,289 residents
2,973 residents
3,281 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
17
within 5 km straight-line
CASTLECROFT MEDICAL PRACTICE
CASTLECROFT AVENUE, CASTLECROFT, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 8JN
ODS code M92008
901 m
TAMAR MEDICAL CENTRE
SEVERN DRIVE, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7QU
ODS code M83668
1.8 km
COALWAY ROAD SURGERY
WARSTONES HEALTH CENTRE, PINFOLD GROVE, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV4 4PS
ODS code M92006
1.9 km
NEWBRIDGE SURGERY
255 TETTENHALL ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0DE
ODS code M92029
2.0 km
LAKESIDE
LAKESIDE MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7PD
ODS code M83132
2.0 km
TETTENHALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWER STREET, TETTENHALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 9LL
ODS code M92010
2.3 km
WHITMORE REANS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWE STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0QL
ODS code M92607
2.9 km
PENN SURGERY
2A COALWAY ROAD, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 7LX
ODS code M92043
2.9 km
PENNFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
UPPER ZOAR STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 0JH
ODS code Y02636
3.0 km
RWT PRACTICES PENN MANOR MEDICAL CENTRE
MANOR ROAD, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV4 5PY
ODS code M92011
3.5 km
THORNLEY STREET SURGERY
40-44 THORNLEY STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV1 1JP
ODS code M92028
3.7 km
DUNCAN STREET PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
DUNCAN STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2 3AN
ODS code M92012
3.9 km
BILBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
BROOKFIELD ROAD, BILBROOK, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV8 1DX
ODS code M83097
4.5 km
RUSSELL HOUSE SURGERY
BUSINESS HUB, WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD, CODSALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV8 1PE
ODS code M83031
4.5 km
HEALTH AND BEYOND
175 STEELHOUSE LANE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2 2AU
ODS code M92612
4.5 km
DR SINHA & TAHIR
WODEN ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 0BD
ODS code M92013
4.9 km
SHOWELL PARK HEALTH CENTRE
FIFTH AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9ST
ODS code Y02736
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Martham Drive
BCT · Compton
- 0.1 miles
Martham Drive
BCT · Compton
- 0.1 miles
Bramstead Avenue
BCT · Tettenhall Wood
- 0.1 miles
Bramstead Avenue
BCT · Tettenhall Wood
- 0.3 miles
Bramstead Avenue
BCT · Compton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wolverhampton 019C, 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
22,717 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
898 published events cover 12 months, averaging 74.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 385 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.