Coven

Coven is covered by postcode district WV9. It is in the South Staffordshire council area, Staffordshire.

Typical price £273,500 Homes sold in Coven, last 12 months. ▼ 3.2% on the year before Gigabit broadband 60 of 64 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 5 of 64 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 15 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Coven, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Coven, by flood risk Of the 64 postcodes in Coven that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at low risk at worst and 59 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Coven. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A449 WV9 5AA: not on the flood risk listWV9 5AB: not on the flood risk listWV9 5AD: not on the flood risk listWV9 5AE: not on the flood risk listWV9 5AF: not on the flood risk listWV9 5AG: not on the flood risk listWV9 5AH: not on the flood risk listWV9 5AJ: not on the flood risk listWV9 5AL: not on the flood risk listWV9 5AQ: not on the flood risk listWV9 5AR: not on the flood risk listWV9 5AS: not on the flood risk listWV9 5BL: not on the flood risk listWV9 5BP: not on the flood risk listWV9 5BS: not on the flood risk listWV9 5BT: not on the flood risk listWV9 5BU: not on the flood risk listWV9 5BX: not on the flood risk listWV9 5BZ: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DA: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DB: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DD: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DE: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DF: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DG: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DH: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DJ: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DL: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DN: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DP: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DQ: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DR: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DS: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DT: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DU: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DW: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DX: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DY: not on the flood risk listWV9 5DZ: not on the flood risk listWV9 5EA: not on the flood risk listWV9 5EB: not on the flood risk listWV9 5ED: not on the flood risk listWV9 5EE: not on the flood risk listWV9 5EF: not on the flood risk listWV9 5EJ: not on the flood risk listWV9 5EL: not on the flood risk listWV9 5EN: not on the flood risk listWV9 5EP: not on the flood risk listWV9 5EQ: not on the flood risk listWV9 5ER: not on the flood risk listWV9 5FB: not on the flood risk listWV9 5FD: not on the flood risk listWV9 5FE: not on the flood risk listWV9 5HX: not on the flood risk listWV9 5HY: not on the flood risk listWV9 5JE: not on the flood risk listWV9 5JF: not on the flood risk listWV9 5JW: not on the flood risk listWV9 5JZ: not on the flood risk listWV9 5AX: low flood risk at worstWV9 5BY: low flood risk at worstWV9 5EG: low flood risk at worstWV9 5AY: high flood riskWV9 5AZ: high flood risk Coven Map of every postcode in Coven, by flood risk Of the 64 postcodes in Coven that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at low risk at worst and 59 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Coven. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. Coven
  • A home or business at high risk: 2
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 3
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 59

Of the 64 postcodes in Coven that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at low risk at worst and 59 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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.6597, longitude -2.1366. 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

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

WV9 5AZ11 at high riskWV9 5AY2 at high risk

What is it like to live in Coven?

Homes sold for a typical £273,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 3.2% on the 12 months before. At 60 of the 64 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 15 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 64 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Featherstone, 3.5 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Bilbrook, 5.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Coven?

Homes in Coven sold for a typical £273,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 25 sales, down 3.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£273,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£282,500 12 months to August 2025
▼ down 3.2% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £352,500 5 sales
  • Semi-detached £267,500 16 sales
  • Terraced 2 sales, too few to price
  • Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

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

Across the whole WV9 district, Coven's main postcode district: a typical £232,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Coven: 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

Are new homes being built in Coven?

4 of the 64 postcodes now in use in Coven came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 34 homes sold in Coven were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WV9 district, 0%.

The newest postcodes

WV9 5EBsince April 2023WV9 5FEsince November 2020WV9 5FDsince May 2020WV9 5FBsince April 2020

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn CovenAcross the WV9 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 25 (0%) 0 of 60 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 34 (0%) 0 of 90 (0%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Coven?

Ofcom reports on 64 of the 64 postcodes in Coven. At 60 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit60 of 64
Postcodes where every home can get superfast63 of 64

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 Coven at risk of flooding?

5 of the 64 postcodes in Coven have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 15 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 5 of 64 postcodes High: 13Medium: 2Low: 9

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

Which schools are in Coven?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Coven. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Coven?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Coven is Bilbrook Rail Station, 5.2 km away in a straight line.

  • Bilbrook Rail Station Railway station 5.2 kmDrive
  • Codsall Rail Station Railway station 5.7 kmDrive
  • Penkridge Rail Station Railway station 7.2 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Coven?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Coven. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Coven safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 129 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Coven over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 8 September 2025
  2. 9 October 2025
  3. 14 November 2025
  4. 13 December 2025
  5. 9 January 2026
  6. 11 February 2026
  7. 9 March 2026
  8. 5 April 2026
  9. 16 May 2026
  10. 7 June 2026
  11. 15 July 2026
  12. 13 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences65 reports
Vehicle crime17 reports
Other theft14 reports
Anti-social behaviour10 reports
Criminal damage and arson10 reports
Drugs3 reports
Other crime3 reports
Burglary2 reports

Also: shoplifting 2, public order 1, bicycle theft 1, possession of weapons 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Coven?

District, borough or city council
South Staffordshire
County council
Staffordshire
Parliamentary constituency
Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge
Police force area
Staffordshire
Region
West Midlands
Country
England
MP
Sir Gavin Williamson (Conservative)

All 64 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

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

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Coven postcodes

64 postcodes in use in Coven, by district:

WV9 postcode district,64 postcodes

That district is in the WV postcode area.

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Places near Coven

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Coven's £273,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Brewood3.1 km, £311,000Featherstone, South Staffordshire3.1 km, £250,000Codsall5.1 km, £290,000Essington6.4 km, £255,000Penkridge7.1 km, £275,000Great Wyrley and Cheslyn Hay7.6 km, £255,000Wolverhampton7.7 km, £230,000Perton8.5 km, £260,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Coven

What is it like to live in Coven?
Homes sold for a typical £273,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 3.2% on the 12 months before. At 60 of the 64 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 15 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5 of its 64 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Featherstone, 3.5 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Bilbrook, 5.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Coven?
Coven is covered by postcode district WV9, across 64 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Coven in?
Coven is in the South Staffordshire council area, and Staffordshire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Coven?
Coven is in the Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Sir Gavin Williamson (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Coven?
Homes in Coven sold for a typical £273,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 25 sales, down 3.2% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Coven?
In Coven, primary schools at its postcodes include St Paul's CofE First School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Brewood Middle CofE Academy, 3.2 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Coven have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Coven is Bilbrook, 5.2 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Coven?
Ofcom reports on 64 of the 64 postcodes in Coven. At 60 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Coven at risk of flooding?
5 of the 64 postcodes in Coven have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 15 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Coven?
4 of the 64 postcodes now in use in Coven came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 34 homes sold in Coven were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WV9 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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