Lichfield
Lichfield is covered by postcode districts WS7, WS13 and WS14. It is in the Lichfield council area, Staffordshire.
Every postcode in Lichfield, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 64
- In use before 2020: 795
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 859 postcodes in Lichfield that ONS places, 64 are new since 2020 and 795 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 150 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 52.6839, longitude -1.8249. 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
What is it like to live in Lichfield?
Homes sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.7% on the 12 months before. At 602 of the 793 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 8 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 21 of its 859 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Lichfield City, 400 metres 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 Lichfield?
Homes in Lichfield sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 419 sales, down 2.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £500,000 127 sales
- Semi-detached £316,250 130 sales
- Terraced £271,000 76 sales
- Flat or maisonette £183,264 86 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole WS13 district, Lichfield's main postcode district: a typical £320,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Lichfield: 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 Lichfield?
64 of the 859 postcodes now in use in Lichfield came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 50 of the 674 homes sold in Lichfield were newly built (7%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WS13 district, 11%.
The newest postcodes
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
| Period | In Lichfield | Across the WS13 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 6 of 419 (1%) | 18 of 412 (4%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 50 of 674 (7%) | 68 of 622 (11%) |
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 Lichfield?
Ofcom reports on 793 of the 859 postcodes in Lichfield. At 602 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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 checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Lichfield at risk of flooding?
21 of the 859 postcodes in Lichfield 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 8 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
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 Lichfield?
The open schools at the postcodes in Lichfield (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Lichfield Cathedral School450 m 546 pupils, 616 places
- St Chad's CofE Primary School500 m 195 pupils, 210 places
- Five Spires Academy550 m 220 pupils, 234 places
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School550 m 205 pupils, 210 places
- St Michael's CofE (C) Primary School550 m 398 pupils, 420 places
- The Bridge Academy650 m
- SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School900 m
- Saxon Hill Academy1.0 km 130 pupils, 125 places
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 Lichfield?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Lichfield is Lichfield City Rail Station, 400 m away in a straight line.
- Lichfield City Rail Station Railway station 400 mWalk
- Lichfield Trent Valley High Level Rail Station Railway station 1.7 kmCycle
- Lichfield Trent Valley Rail Station Railway station 1.7 kmCycle
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 Lichfield?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Lichfield. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- The Westgate Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01543 416633 250 mWalk
- The Langton Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2024 · Phone 01543 440819 1.6 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Lichfield safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 2,819 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Lichfield 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
- 238 September 2025
- 237 October 2025
- 198 November 2025
- 182 December 2025
- 195 January 2026
- 233 February 2026
- 250 March 2026
- 265 April 2026
- 234 May 2026
- 277 June 2026
- 273 July 2026
- 237 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 71, other crime 48, robbery 31, possession of weapons 28, bicycle theft 15, theft from the person 14.
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 postcodeSource: 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 Lichfield?
- District, borough or city council
- Lichfield
- County council
- Staffordshire
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Lichfield (858) and Tamworth (1)
- Police force area
- Staffordshire
- Region
- West Midlands
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Lichfield
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Lichfield about council tax Council tax, on lichfielddc.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Lichfield
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Lichfield postcodes
859 postcodes in use in Lichfield, by district:
Those districts are all in the WS postcode area.
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Places near Lichfield
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Lichfield's £325,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Lichfield
- What is it like to live in Lichfield?
- Homes sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 2.7% on the 12 months before. At 602 of the 793 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 8 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 21 of its 859 postcodes. It has at least 6 primary schools, 2 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Lichfield City, 400 metres 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 Lichfield?
- Lichfield is covered by postcode districts WS7, WS13 and WS14, across 859 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Lichfield in?
- Lichfield is in the Lichfield council area, and Staffordshire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Lichfield?
- Homes in Lichfield sold for a typical £325,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 419 sales, down 2.7% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Lichfield?
- In Lichfield, primary schools at its postcodes include Lichfield Cathedral School, St Chad's CofE Primary School and Five Spires Academy; secondary schools at its postcodes include Lichfield Cathedral School, The Bridge Academy and Nether Stowe School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Lichfield have a railway station?
- Yes: Lichfield City is 400 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Lichfield, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Lichfield?
- Ofcom reports on 793 of the 859 postcodes in Lichfield. At 602 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Lichfield at risk of flooding?
- 21 of the 859 postcodes in Lichfield 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 8 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 Lichfield?
- 64 of the 859 postcodes now in use in Lichfield came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 50 of the 674 homes sold in Lichfield were newly built (7%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WS13 district, 11%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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