Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 11 secondary schools. Codsall Middle School is the nearest published school at 286 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WV8 2ER
Codsall · South Staffordshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wolverhampton
- Ward
- Codsall
- Local authority
- South Staffordshire
- Constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire
- Postcode district
- WV8
- Postcode sector
- WV8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV8 2ER
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV8
- Postcode sector
- WV8 2
- Latitude
- 52.624363
- Longitude
- -2.195585
- British National Grid easting
- 386,857
- British National Grid northing
- 302,972
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- South Staffordshire · E07000196
- Electoral ward
- Codsall · E05015057
- Parish or community
- E04008960
- Westminster constituency
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire · E14001316
- Output area
- E00150979
- Lower layer super output area
- South Staffordshire 009C · E01029629
- Middle layer super output area
- South Staffordshire 009 · E02006182
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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Byeways, Histons Hill, Codsall, Wolverhampton, WV8 2ER | 28 October 2019 | £409,000 |
| Mountfield, Histons Hill, Codsall, Wolverhampton, WV8 2ER | 13 March 2018 | £595,000 |
| Mountfield, Histons Hill, Codsall, Wolverhampton, WV8 2ER | 3 August 2001 | £275,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 11
- 286 m
Codsall Middle School
Academy converter
- 538 m
Codsall Community High School
Community school
- 552 m
St Christopher's Catholic Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 626
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 258
- Anti social behaviour 92
- Shoplifting 71
- Criminal damage and arson 56
- Public order 39
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 26
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- WV8 2 residents
- 4,207
13 female, 13 male
Age bands in WV8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.3%
667 residents
384 residents
828 residents
1,193 residents
1,214 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WV8 2 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
10
within 5 km
RUSSELL HOUSE SURGERY
BUSINESS HUB, WOLVERHAMPTON ROAD, CODSALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV8 1PE
ODS code M83031
406 m
BILBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
BROOKFIELD ROAD, BILBROOK, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV8 1DX
ODS code M83097
938 m
LAKESIDE
LAKESIDE MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCH ROAD, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7PD
ODS code M83132
3.3 km
TAMAR MEDICAL CENTRE
SEVERN DRIVE, PERTON, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 7QU
ODS code M83668
3.4 km
TETTENHALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWER STREET, TETTENHALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 9LL
ODS code M92010
3.6 km
ASHFIELD ROAD SURGERY
39 ASHFIELD ROAD, FORDHOUSES, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6QX
ODS code M92609
4.3 km
FORDHOUSES MEDICAL CENTRE
68 MARSH LANE, FORD HOUSES, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6RU
ODS code M92629
4.3 km
NEWBRIDGE SURGERY
255 TETTENHALL ROAD, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0DE
ODS code M92029
4.4 km
PROBERT ROAD SURGERY
470 STAFFORD ROAD, OXLEY, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV10 6AR
ODS code M92041
4.5 km
WHITMORE REANS MEDICAL PRACTICE
LOWE STREET, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV6 0QL
ODS code M92607
4.8 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Histons Hill
BCT · Codsall
- 0.2 miles
South Staffordshire Council Offices
BCT · Codsall
- 0.2 miles
Histons Hill
BCT · Codsall
- 0.2 miles
South Staffordshire Council Offices
BCT · Codsall
- 0.3 miles
Wheel Avenue
BCT · Codsall Town Centre
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Staffordshire 009C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,494 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
626 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 258 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.