Rugeley
Rugeley is covered by postcode district WS15. It is mostly in the Cannock Chase council area: 535 of its 571 postcodes. The others are in Lichfield and Stafford.
Every postcode in Rugeley, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 41
- At medium risk at worst: 3
- At low risk at worst: 14
- At very low risk only: 5
- Not on the at-risk list: 508
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 571 postcodes in Rugeley that ONS places, 41 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 14 are at low risk at worst, 5 are at very low risk only and 508 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. 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. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.7571, longitude -1.9371. 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
41 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 39 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. WS15 2DY, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Rugeley?
Homes sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 2.3% on the 12 months before. At 507 of the 542 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 553 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 63 of its 571 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools at its postcodes. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Rugeley Town, 300 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 Rugeley?
Homes in Rugeley sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 281 sales, up 2.3% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £320,000 67 sales
- Semi-detached £220,000 103 sales
- Terraced £184,000 89 sales
- Flat or maisonette £118,000 22 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole WS15 district, Rugeley's main postcode district: a typical £240,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Rugeley: 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 Rugeley?
11 of the 571 postcodes now in use in Rugeley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 376 homes sold in Rugeley were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WS15 district, 2%.
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 Rugeley | Across the WS15 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 281 (0%) | 3 of 429 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 0 of 376 (0%) | 11 of 548 (2%) |
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 Rugeley?
Ofcom reports on 542 of the 571 postcodes in Rugeley. At 507 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 Rugeley at risk of flooding?
63 of the 571 postcodes in Rugeley 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 553 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 Rugeley?
The primary schools are at the postcodes in Rugeley. 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
- Churchfield CofE Primary Academy100 m 155 pupils, 236 places
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School550 m 217 pupils, 210 places
- Chancel Primary School1.0 km 210 pupils, 210 places
- Chase View Community Primary School1.0 km 185 pupils, 236 places
- Redbrook Hayes Community Primary School1.3 km 225 pupils, 210 places
- Forest Hills Primary School1.3 km 79 pupils, 210 places
- The John Bamford Primary School1.4 km 268 pupils, 343 places
- Etching Hill CofE Primary Academy1.8 km 460 pupils, 420 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 Rugeley?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Rugeley is Rugeley Town Rail Station, 300 m away in a straight line.
- Rugeley Town Rail Station Railway station 300 mWalk
- Rugeley Trent Valley Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
- Hednesford Rail Station Railway station 6.8 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 Rugeley?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Rugeley. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Sandy Lane Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2026 · Phone 01889 572060 100 mWalk
- Aelfgar Surgery Phone 01889 579276 700 mWalk
- Horsefair Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01889 582244 1.3 kmCycle
- Brereton Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2026 · Phone 01889 575560 1.4 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Rugeley safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,923 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Rugeley 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
- 157 September 2025
- 126 October 2025
- 168 November 2025
- 150 December 2025
- 138 January 2026
- 122 February 2026
- 147 March 2026
- 191 April 2026
- 182 May 2026
- 202 June 2026
- 171 July 2026
- 169 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 47, other crime 44, possession of weapons 21, robbery 17, bicycle theft 12, theft from the person 6.
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 Rugeley?
- Councils
- Cannock Chase (535), Lichfield (32) and Stafford (4)
- County council
- Staffordshire
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Cannock Chase (535), Lichfield (32) and Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge (4)
- 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 Rugeley
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Rugeley is in Cannock Chase; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- 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 Rugeley
- 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
Rugeley postcodes
571 postcodes in use in Rugeley, by district:
That district is in the WS postcode area.
Check a Rugeley postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Rugeley
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Rugeley's £220,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Rugeley
- What is it like to live in Rugeley?
- Homes sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 2.3% on the 12 months before. At 507 of the 542 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 553 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 63 of its 571 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools at its postcodes. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Rugeley Town, 300 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 Rugeley?
- Rugeley is covered by postcode district WS15, across 571 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Rugeley?
- Homes in Rugeley sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 281 sales, up 2.3% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Rugeley?
- In Rugeley, primary schools at its postcodes include Churchfield CofE Primary Academy, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School and Chancel Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is The Hart School, 1.4 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Rugeley have a railway station?
- Yes: Rugeley Town is 300 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Rugeley, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Rugeley?
- Ofcom reports on 542 of the 571 postcodes in Rugeley. At 507 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Rugeley at risk of flooding?
- 63 of the 571 postcodes in Rugeley 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 553 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 Rugeley?
- 11 of the 571 postcodes now in use in Rugeley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 376 homes sold in Rugeley were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WS15 district, 2%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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