Norton Canes
Norton Canes is covered by postcode districts WS8 and WS11. It is in the Cannock Chase council area, Staffordshire.
Every postcode in Norton Canes, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 21
- In use before 2020: 143
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 164 postcodes in Norton Canes that ONS places, 21 are new since 2020 and 143 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 160 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.6709, longitude -1.9714. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
The 5 newest postcodes
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 14 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. WS11 9BG, is the newest of them.
What is it like to live in Norton Canes?
Homes sold for a typical £270,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 151 of the 163 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 164 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Landywood, 3.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Norton Canes?
Homes in Norton Canes sold for a typical £270,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 120 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £250,000 from 130 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £326,250 54 sales
- Semi-detached £233,250 44 sales
- Terraced £212,500 17 sales
- Flat or maisonette £133,000 5 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole WS11 district, Norton Canes's main postcode district: a typical £225,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Norton Canes: 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 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Norton Canes?
21 of the 164 postcodes now in use in Norton Canes came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 5 of the 130 homes sold in Norton Canes were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WS11 district, 3%.
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 Norton Canes | Across the WS11 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 120 (0%) | 1 of 508 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 5 of 130 (4%) | 17 of 651 (3%) |
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.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Norton Canes?
Ofcom reports on 163 of the 164 postcodes in Norton Canes. At 151 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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Norton Canes at risk of flooding?
None of the 164 postcodes in Norton Canes 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Norton Canes?
The open schools at the postcodes in Norton Canes. 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Norton Canes?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Norton Canes is Landywood Rail Station, 3.7 km away in a straight line.
- Landywood Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle
- Cannock Rail Station Railway station 3.8 kmCycle
- Hednesford Rail Station Railway station 4.8 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Norton Canes?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Norton Canes. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Norton Canes Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2026 · Phone 01543 450222 350 mWalk
- Norton Canes Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01543 279232 350 mWalk
- Norton Canes Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01543 279500 350 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Norton Canes safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 734 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Norton Canes 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
- 64 September 2025
- 60 October 2025
- 64 November 2025
- 64 December 2025
- 60 January 2026
- 54 February 2026
- 63 March 2026
- 55 April 2026
- 51 May 2026
- 66 June 2026
- 65 July 2026
- 68 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 15, drugs 8, possession of weapons 8, robbery 6, bicycle theft 2, theft from the person 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 each way 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 to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Norton Canes?
- District, borough or city council
- Cannock Chase
- County council
- Staffordshire
- Parliamentary constituency
- Cannock Chase
- Police force area
- Staffordshire
- Region
- West Midlands
- Country
- England
- MP
- Josh Newbury (Labour)
All 164 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving to Norton Canes
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Cannock Chase about council tax Council tax, on cannockchasedc.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Norton Canes
- 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 Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Norton Canes postcodes
164 postcodes in use in Norton Canes, by district:
Those districts are all in the WS postcode area.
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Places near Norton Canes
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Norton Canes's £270,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Norton Canes
- What is the postcode for Norton Canes?
- Postcode districts WS8 and WS11, with 164 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Norton Canes in?
- Cannock Chase, with Staffordshire as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Norton Canes?
- Josh Newbury (Labour), for Cannock Chase. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Norton Canes?
- A typical £270,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 120 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Norton Canes?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Jerome Primary School and Norton Canes Primary Academy; secondary schools at its postcodes include Norton Canes High School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Norton Canes have a railway station?
- The nearest is Landywood station, 3.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Norton Canes?
- Ofcom reports on 163 of the 164 postcodes in Norton Canes. At 151 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Norton Canes at risk of flooding?
- None of the 164 postcodes in Norton Canes 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. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Norton Canes?
- 21 of the 164 postcodes now in use in Norton Canes came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 5 of the 130 homes sold in Norton Canes were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WS11 district, 3%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
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