Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 13 secondary schools. Birches First School is the nearest published school at 343 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV8 1LZ
Bilbrook · South Staffordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bilbrook
- Local authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
- Postcode district
- WV8
- Postcode sector
- WV8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV8 1LZ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1991
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV8
- Postcode sector
- WV8 1
- Latitude
- 52.621947
- Longitude
- -2.177213
- British National Grid easting
- 388,100
- British National Grid northing
- 302,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- South Staffordshire · E07000196
- Electoral ward
- Bilbrook · E05015054
- Parish or community
- E04008955
- Westminster constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire · E14001316
- Output area
- E00150889
- Lower layer super output area
- South Staffordshire 008A · E01029613
- Middle layer super output area
- South Staffordshire 008 · E02006181
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 WV8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 13
- 343 m
Birches First School
Academy converter
- 769 m
St Christopher's Catholic Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 786 m
Bilbrook CofE (VC) Middle School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 748
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 369
- Anti social behaviour 85
- Criminal damage and arson 73
- Shoplifting 44
- Public order 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WV8 1 residents
- 11,885
Age bands in WV8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.8%
2,112 residents
1,159 residents
2,794 residents
3,129 residents
2,563 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
15
within 5 km straight-line
BILBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
BROOKFIELD ROAD, BILBROOK, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV8 1DX
ODS code M83097
441 m
RUSSELL HOUSE SURGERY
BUSINESS HUB, WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD, CODSALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV8 1PE
ODS code M83031
903 m
TETTENHALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWER STREET, TETTENHALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 9LL
ODS code M92010
2.6 km
ASHFIELD ROAD SURGERY
39 ASHFIELD ROAD, FORDHOUSES, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6QX
ODS code M92609
3.0 km
FORDHOUSES MEDICAL CENTRE
68 MARSH LANE, FORD HOUSES, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6RU
ODS code M92629
3.0 km
PROBERT ROAD SURGERY
470 STAFFORD ROAD, OXLEY, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6AR
ODS code M92041
3.2 km
LAKESIDE
LAKESIDE MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7PD
ODS code M83132
3.4 km
NEWBRIDGE SURGERY
255 TETTENHALL ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0DE
ODS code M92029
3.5 km
TAMAR MEDICAL CENTRE
SEVERN DRIVE, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7QU
ODS code M83668
3.5 km
WHITMORE REANS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWE STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0QL
ODS code M92607
3.7 km
PRESTBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
BROADWAY, BUSHBURY, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 8EA
ODS code M92009
4.1 km
SHOWELL PARK HEALTH CENTRE
FIFTH AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9ST
ODS code Y02736
4.3 km
BAGARY'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOW HILL MEDICAL CENTRE, 191 FIRST AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9SX
ODS code M92654
4.5 km
POPLARS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE POPLARS, THIRD AVENUE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 9PG
ODS code M92001
4.6 km
CASTLECROFT MEDICAL PRACTICE
CASTLECROFT AVENUE, CASTLECROFT, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV3 8JN
ODS code M92008
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Birches Avenue
BCT · Bilbrook
- 0.2 miles
Greenacre Drive
BCT · Bilbrook
- 0.2 miles
Greenacre Drive
BCT · Bilbrook
- 0.3 miles
Birches Avenue
BCT · Bilbrook
- 0.3 miles
Fire Station
BCT · Bilbrook
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Staffordshire 008A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,618 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
748 published events cover 12 months, averaging 62.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 369 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.