DY postcode area

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Dudley
DY is located in the United Kingdom
DY
DY
Coordinates: 52°27′11″N 2°10′52″W / 52.453°N 2.181°W / 52.453; -2.181
CountryUnited Kingdom
Postcode area
DY
Postcode area name
Dudley
Post towns8
Postcode districts14
Postcode sectors59
Postcodes (live)10,962
Postcodes (total)14,419
Statistics as at May 2020[1]

The DY postcode area, also known as the Dudley postcode area,[2] is a group of fourteen postcode districts in England, within eight post towns. These cover the south-western part of the West Midlands (including Dudley, Tipton, Brierley Hill, Stourbridge and Kingswinford) and north Worcestershire (including Kidderminster, Bewdley and Stourport-on-Severn), plus the south-westernmost part of Staffordshire and a small part of south-east Shropshire.

Mail for this area is sorted, along with mail for the adjacent WV postcode area, at the North West Midlands Mail Centre in Wolverhampton.

  1. ^ "ONS Postcode Directory Version Notes" (ZIP). National Statistics Postcode Products. Office for National Statistics. May 2020. Table 2. Retrieved 19 June 2020. Coordinates from mean of unit postcode points, "Code-Point Open". OS OpenData. Ordnance Survey. February 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  2. ^ Royal Mail, Address Management Guide, (2004)