WV3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

614 of the district's 921 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 52.57903, -2.15661, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WV3

Companies House lists 1,684 companies with a registered office in WV3; 146 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 WV3

• Wolverhampton
• West Midlands
• City of Wolverhampton
• South Staffordshire
• Staffordshire

Roads filed under WV3

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.

• Abbots Way
• Ackleton Gardens
• Adams Road
• Addison Road
• Alder Dale
• Alderton Drive
• Aldwyck Drive
• Alexandra Street
• Alpine Way
• Amina Gardens
• Ashenden Rise
• Ashfield Road
• Ash Hill
• Ashland Street
• Ash Street
• Aspen Way
• Aston Street
• Attwell Park
• Avenue Road
• Bagridge Close
• Bagridge Road
• Bamber Close
• Bamford Road
• Bantock Avenue
• Bantock Gardens
• Barn Green
• Bayston Avenue
• Beckminster Road
• Bellencroft Gardens
• Bhylls Crescent
• Bhylls Lane
• Bingley Street
• Birches Barn Avenue
• Birches Barn Road
• Birchglade
• Bradmore Road
• Bramblewood Drive
• Brandon Park
• Brantley Avenue
• Bristol Street
• Broad Lane
• Broadleaf Gardens
• Broadway
• Bromford Rise
• Broughton Road
• Bruford Road
• Burleigh Road
• Burnell Gardens
• Captain's Close
• Cardiff Street
• Carlton Road
• Castlecroft Avenue
• Castlecroft Gardens
• Castlecroft Lane
• Castlecroft Road
• Cedar Grove
• Chapel Ash
• Charles Wesley Court
• Chelmarsh Avenue
• Chequerfield Drive

Check an address in WV3

Check an address in WV3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WV3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WV3

What does a WV3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WV3 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 614 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 WV3

• WV42.1 km
• WV22.6 km
• WV62.7 km
• WV12.9 km
• WV105.3 km
• WV85.6 km
• DY35.6 km
• WV145.8 km
• WV56.2 km
• WV96.6 km
• WV136.7 km
• WV116.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids