WV5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

471 of the district's 599 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 52.53415, -2.21085, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in WV5

Companies House lists 866 companies with a registered office in WV5; none of them at an address 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 WV5

• West Midlands
• South Staffordshire
• Staffordshire
• Wombourne
• Shropshire
• Claverley
• Seisdon
• Trysull
• Heathton
• Lower Hopstone
• Upper Ludstone
• Farmcote
• Lower Beobridge
• Beobridge
• Broughton
• Long Common
• Hopstone
• Ludstone
• Rudge Heath
• Hillend
• Aston
• Draycott
• Upper Aston
• Wolverhampton

Roads filed under WV5

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.

• Appletree Close
• Apse Close
• Aston Lane
• Balmoral Drive
• Banbery Drive
• Bankside
• Battlefield Hill
• Battlefield Lane
• Bearnett Lane
• Beechhouse Lane
• Beech Hurst Gardens
• Beggars Bush Lane
• Bell Road
• Billy Buns Lane
• Birch Coppice
• Birch Hill Avenue
• Birchill Place
• Blakeley Heath Drive
• Bloomfield Close
• Bossgate Close
• Boundary Close
• Bramber Drive
• Bramblewood
• Brantley Lane
• Bratch Common Road
• Bratch Hollow
• Bratch Lane
• Bratch Park
• Brickbridge Lane
• Bridgewater Drive
• Bridgnorth Avenue
• Bridgnorth Road
• Brindley Close
• Brook Road
• Brookside Close
• Bull Lane
• Bullmeadow Lane
• Bumblehole Meadows
• Calvin Close
• Campion Close
• Cannon Road
• Carriers Fold
• Cartwright Gardens
• Cedars Avenue
• Chapel Close
• Chapel Street
• Chartwell Drive
• Chequers Avenue
• Chestnut Drive
• Church Lane
• Church Road
• Church Street
• Churchward Grove
• Clap Gate Grove
• Clap Gate Road
• Clee View Road
• Clover Heath
• Common Road
• Connaught Drive
• Copper Beech Drive

Check an address in WV5

Check an address in WV5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=WV5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about WV5

What does a WV5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the WV5 district of the WV (Wolverhampton) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Wombourne. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 471 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 WV5

• DY65.1 km
• WV45.4 km
• DY35.4 km
• WV36.2 km
• WV67.2 km
• WV27.6 km
• DY77.7 km
• DY18.0 km
• DY58.4 km
• WV18.7 km
• DY89.0 km
• WV149.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids