WS5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

377 of the district's 499 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 52.56602, -1.95826, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WS5

Companies House lists 1,405 companies with a registered office in WS5; 174 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 WS5

• West Midlands
• Walsall
• West Bromwich
• Sandwell

Roads filed under WS5

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.

• Acacia Avenue
• Alder Crescent
• Allington Close
• Almond Avenue
• Angelica Close
• Appledore Road
• Aster Way
• Athlone Road
• Avon Grove
• Barrington Close
• Barry Road
• Beacon Road
• Bell Drive
• Bellflower Drive
• Bell Lane
• Bell Road
• Berry Crescent
• Betony Close
• Biddlestone Grove
• Birchfield Way
• Birmingham Road
• Blackthorne Road
• Bodmin Close
• Bodmin Rise
• Botany Road
• Bourton Close
• Brackendale Drive
• Bracken Wood
• Bramley Close
• Bramley Road
• Brindle Road
• Broadway
• Brockhurst Crescent
• Brockhurst Place
• Brookhouse Road
• Broom Road
• Bude Road
• Burdock Close
• Burford Close
• Burnside Gardens
• Buttercup Close
• Caledonian Close
• Calthorpe Close
• Calthorpe Road
• Camborne Road
• Camden Close
• Camomile Close
• Campion Close
• Canberra Road
• Canning Close
• Canning Road
• Cedar Close
• Charlemont Close
• Charlemont Gardens
• Charlemont Road
• Charnwood Road
• Cherry Tree Avenue
• Chesnut Street
• Clary Grove
• Clover Hill

Check an address in WS5

Check an address in WS5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WS5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WS5

What does a WS5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WS5 district of the WS (Walsall) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Walsall. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 377 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 WS5

• WS12.0 km
• B432.7 km
• B714.0 km
• WS24.1 km
• WS104.4 km
• WS44.5 km
• B424.8 km
• B445.4 km
• WS95.6 km
• B705.9 km
• B206.2 km
• WS36.4 km
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distance between the districts' centroids