DY5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

946 of the district's 1,248 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 52.48058, -2.12391, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in DY5

Companies House lists 3,339 companies with a registered office in DY5; 771 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for DY5

• Dudley
• West Midlands
• Brierley Hill
• Kingswinford
• Stourbridge
• Sedgley
• Cradley Heath

Roads filed under DY5

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abbotts Mews
• Acres Road
• Addison Road
• Adelaide Street
• Albertine Mews
• Albert Street
• Albion Street
• Aldeford Drive
• Aldgate Drive
• Alexander Hill
• Amblecote Road
• Ambleside Drive
• Amelas Close
• Anchor Hill
• Andrews Close
• Anne Road
• Ansculf Road
• Ardingly Walk
• Ashton Park Drive
• Ashtree Close
• Astons Close
• Astons Fold
• Avon Close
• Bagley's Road
• Bagnall Walk
• Bague Walk
• Bank Street
• Bankwell Street
• Barbrook Drive
• Barn Owl Walk
• Barratts Croft
• Barrow Hill Road
• Barsham Drive
• Bath Road
• Batson Rise
• Bavaro Gardens
• Baxter Road
• Beaumont Drive
• Beeston Close
• Belle Isle
• Belle Vue Road
• Bell Street
• Bell Street South
• Belmont Road
• Bent Street
• Bevan Road
• Bewlay Close
• Bickon Drive
• Birbeck Place
• Birch Avenue
• Birch Coppice
• Birchtree Gardens
• Birds Meadow
• Bisell Way
• Bittern Walk
• Blackhorse Lane
• Blackwater Close
• Blake Hall Close
• Blewitt Street
• Blithfield Drive

Check an address in DY5

Check an address in DY5

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=DY5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about DY5

What does a DY5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the DY5 district of the DY (Dudley) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Brierley Hill. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 946 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest DY5

• DY83.1 km
• DY23.4 km
• DY63.4 km
• B643.8 km
• DY14.4 km
• B634.9 km
• DY95.3 km
• B655.4 km
• DY35.6 km
• B626.7 km
• B696.8 km
• DY47.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids