WV7 postcode district: Albrighton and around

WV7 is a postcode district in England, with 204 postcodes in use in 1 sector. It has postcodes in Albrighton. It is split between 2 councils: Shropshire (195 postcodes) and South Staffordshire (9). 9 of its 204 postcodes are in Staffordshire. ONS lists no county for the other 195.

Postcodes in use: 204
Sectors: 1
Councils: 2 councils
Places: Albrighton

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in WV7, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 9
In use before 2020: 195
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 204 postcodes in WV7 that ONS places, 9 are new since 2020 and 195 were in use before 2020.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 180 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.6355, longitude -2.2790. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The 5 newest postcodes

WV7 3FFSeptember 2024 WV7 3NRFebruary 2024 WV7 3LXOctober 2022 WV7 3PAAugust 2022 WV7 3FRMarch 2022

Where the new postcodes lie together

7 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. WV7 3FF, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in WV7?

Ofcom reports on 199 of the 204 postcodes in WV7. At 124 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit124 of 199

Postcodes where every home can get superfast159 of 199

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband2 of 199

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is WV7 at risk of flooding?

1 of the 204 postcodes in WV7 has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1 home or business in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1 of 204 postcodes High: 1

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in WV7?

Homes in WV7 sold for a typical £319,950 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 71 sales, no change on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£319,950 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£319,950 12 months to August 2025

■ no change on the 12 months before

Detached £415,000 26 sales
Semi-detached £319,950 27 sales
Terraced £225,000 15 sales
Flat or maisonette 3 sales, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it