WV2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

455 of the district's 741 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 52.57374, -2.11843, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WV2

Companies House lists 2,639 companies with a registered office in WV2; 393 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 WV2

• City of Wolverhampton
• West Midlands
• Wolverhampton
• Bilston

Roads filed under WV2

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.

• Ablow Street
• Adelaide Walk
• All Saints Road
• Argyle Road
• Arthur Street
• Baggott Street
• Banstead Close
• Barcroft Road
• Barnard Place
• Baynton Drive
• Beech Tree Road
• Bell Place
• Bilston Road
• Birmingham Road
• Bloomsbury Street
• Bond Street
• Bowdler Road
• Boydon Close
• Bradley Road
• Brevitt Road
• Briar Wood Close
• Brodie Close
• Bromley Street
• Bromwynd Close
• Bronte Road
• Brown Street
• Brunel Way
• Byrne Road
• Cable Street
• Caledonia Road
• Carshalton Grove
• Cartwright Street
• Chain Gardens
• Chapel Street
• Chetwynd Road
• Cheviot Road
• Chillington Street
• Christopher Road
• Church Lane
• Church Street
• Clayton Close
• Cleveland Road
• Cockshutts Lane
• Colerne Street
• Coltishall Grove
• Coningsby Drive
• Convent Close
• Cooke Street
• Cooper Street
• Cotswold Court
• Cotswold Road
• Cousins Street
• Craven Street
• Cross Street South
• Curzon Street
• Cyprus Street
• D'Urberville Close
• D'urberville Road
• Dartmouth Street
• Deborah Close

Check an address in WV2

Check an address in WV2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WV2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WV2

What does a WV2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WV2 district of the WV (Wolverhampton) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Wolverhampton. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 455 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 WV2

• WV11.4 km
• WV42.3 km
• WV32.6 km
• WV143.2 km
• WV134.3 km
• DY34.8 km
• WV105.1 km
• WV65.1 km
• WV115.2 km
• DY46.2 km
• WV126.4 km
• DY16.5 km
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distance between the districts' centroids