WV98 postcode district: Kidderminster and around

WV98 is a postcode district mostly in Worcestershire, with 559 postcodes in use in 2 sectors. It has postcodes in Kidderminster and Wolverhampton. It is split between 2 councils: Wyre Forest (328 postcodes) and Wolverhampton (68). 328 are in Worcestershire. ONS lists no county for 68 more. ONS gives no location for 163 of its postcodes, and so no council.

Postcodes in use
559
Sectors
2
Councils
2 councils
Places
2 places

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

Every postcode in WV98, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in WV98, by flood risk Of the 396 postcodes in WV98 that ONS places, 396 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Kidderminster, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Stourbridge, Halesowen, Kingswinford. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 5 km. A442A451A449A454 WV98 1AA: not on the flood risk listWV98 1AQ: not on the flood risk listWV98 1GA: not on the flood risk list KidderminsterWolverhamptonDudleyStourbridgeHalesowenKingswinford Map of every postcode in WV98, by flood risk Of the 396 postcodes in WV98 that ONS places, 396 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Kidderminster, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Stourbridge. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 5 km. A454A458A451 KidderminsterWolverhamptonDudleyStourbridge
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 396

Of the 396 postcodes in WV98 that ONS places, 396 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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. 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 52.4049, longitude -2.2202. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; 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

Is WV98 at risk of flooding?

None of the 559 postcodes in WV98 is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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

Postcodes in WV98

Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.

WV98 1396 postcodesWV98 2163 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in WV98

Towns and villages with postcodes in WV98, and how many each has here.

Kidderminster postcodes,151Wolverhampton postcodes,68

Who covers WV98

How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.

Councils

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Constituencies

  • Wyre Forest328
  • Wolverhampton West68

Police force areas

  • West Mercia328
  • West Midlands68

Next to WV98

WV16 postcode district WV99 postcode district All WV districts Kidderminster postcodes

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after WV98 in the WV area.

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