Schools
86 open schools are in scope, including 49 primary and 16 secondary schools. Aurora Cedars School is the nearest published school at 551 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV6 8PB
Tettenhall Wightwick · Wolverhampton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wolverhampton
- 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 8PB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV6
- Postcode sector
- WV6 8
- Latitude
- 52.590708
- Longitude
- -2.170901
- British National Grid easting
- 388,519
- British National Grid northing
- 299,224
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
- E00053260
- Lower layer super output area
- Wolverhampton 014B · E01010547
- Middle layer super output area
- Wolverhampton 014 · E02002162
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
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, Henwood Close, Wolverhampton, WV6 8PB | 30 August 2019 | £154,950 |
| 1, Henwood Close, Wolverhampton, WV6 8PB | 8 July 2015 | £127,500 |
| 2, Henwood Close, Wolverhampton, WV6 8PB | 28 August 2013 | £86,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 86
- Primary
- 49
- Secondary
- 16
- 551 m
Aurora Cedars School
Other independent special school
- 587 m
Christ Church (Church of England) Junior School
Voluntary controlled school
- 592 m
St Edmund's Catholic Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,498
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 582
- Shoplifting 349
- Criminal damage and arson 107
- Vehicle crime 102
- Other theft 95
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 33
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- WV6 8 residents
- 10,659
17 female, 16 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WV6 8 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+
- 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
23
within 5 km straight-line
NEWBRIDGE SURGERY
255 TETTENHALL ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0DE
ODS code M92029
1.1 km
TETTENHALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWER STREET, TETTENHALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 9LL
ODS code M92010
1.4 km
CASTLECROFT MEDICAL PRACTICE
CASTLECROFT AVENUE, CASTLECROFT, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 8JN
ODS code M92008
1.8 km
WHITMORE REANS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWE STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0QL
ODS code M92607
2.0 km
TAMAR MEDICAL CENTRE
SEVERN DRIVE, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7QU
ODS code M83668
2.1 km
LAKESIDE
LAKESIDE MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7PD
ODS code M83132
2.3 km
COALWAY ROAD SURGERY
WARSTONES HEALTH CENTRE, PINFOLD GROVE, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV4 4PS
ODS code M92006
2.4 km
PENNFIELDS MEDICAL CENTRE
UPPER ZOAR STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 0JH
ODS code Y02636
2.7 km
PENN SURGERY
2A COALWAY ROAD, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 7LX
ODS code M92043
2.9 km
THORNLEY STREET SURGERY
40-44 THORNLEY STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV1 1JP
ODS code M92028
3.1 km
DUNCAN STREET PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
DUNCAN STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2 3AN
ODS code M92012
3.6 km
RWT PRACTICES PENN MANOR MEDICAL CENTRE
MANOR ROAD, PENN, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV4 5PY
ODS code M92011
3.8 km
BILBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
BROOKFIELD ROAD, BILBROOK, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV8 1DX
ODS code M83097
3.9 km
RUSSELL HOUSE SURGERY
BUSINESS HUB, WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD, CODSALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV8 1PE
ODS code M83031
4.0 km
SHOWELL PARK HEALTH CENTRE
FIFTH AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9ST
ODS code Y02736
4.0 km
HEALTH AND BEYOND
175 STEELHOUSE LANE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2 2AU
ODS code M92612
4.1 km
PROBERT ROAD SURGERY
470 STAFFORD ROAD, OXLEY, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6AR
ODS code M92041
4.1 km
DR SINHA & TAHIR
WODEN ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 0BD
ODS code M92013
4.1 km
BAGARY'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOW HILL MEDICAL CENTRE, 191 FIRST AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9SX
ODS code M92654
4.3 km
FORDHOUSES MEDICAL CENTRE
68 MARSH LANE, FORD HOUSES, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6RU
ODS code M92629
4.4 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Henwood Close
BCT · Compton
- 0.1 miles
Henwood Close
BCT · Compton
- 0.1 miles
High Meadows
BCT · Compton
- 0.2 miles
Corfton Drive
BCT · Tettenhall
- 0.2 miles
Bridgnorth Road
BCT · Compton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wolverhampton 014B, 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
21,835 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
1,498 published events cover 12 months, averaging 124.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 582 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.