A461 West Bromwich, Sandwell

3 addresses across 1 postcode (DY4), about 120 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 33620378.

  • Flood: 20 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Sandwell costs £2,244 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 92% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dudley Port, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Sheepwash Urban Park, is about 400 m (0.2 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 128 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 3 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Great Bridge Pship For Health, about 320 m away, with 3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 590 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 51% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 94 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

Council tax

What each band costs in Sandwell in 2026-27: Band D £2,244 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,496£1,746£1,995£2,244£2,743£3,242£3,741£4,489

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (45% of about 850 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 3 November 2026 to 4 November 2026: HUTCHISON 3G LTD, Utility asset works, lane closure, on the verge (minor works)
  • 4 November 2026: SANDWELL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, lane closure, on the carriageway (minor works, permit applied for)

Finished in the last three months

  • 14 October 2026 to 15 October 2026: SANDWELL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, lane closure, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 18 September 2026 to 24 September 2026: HUTCHISON 3G LTD, Utility asset works, lane closure, on the verge (standard works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 17 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 0 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's addresses are about 128 m above sea level.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
DY4 7AR100%92%92%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsDudley Port 376,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Tipton 359,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
Sandwell and Dudley 1.0 million journeys in 2024–253 km (1.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramGreat Bridge (West Midlands Metro)190 m
Horseley Road (West Midlands Metro)670 m (0.4 miles)
Dudley Port (West Midlands Metro)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops10 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Great Bridge Interchange80 m
Bus or coach stationWednesbury Bus Station2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Car parksAlbert Street Car Park (Long Stay)2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station880 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX21.3 km (13 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Great Bridge Pship For Health320 m
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Great Bridge Pharmacy210 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Great Bridge Dental Practice50 m
HospitalGuest Hospital2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationTipton Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM200 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sheepwash Urban Park 39 ha400 m (0.2 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 650 m²890 m (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.4 ha850 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.3 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 39 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Victoria Park, Tipton, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.9 km (1.2 miles) west. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Victoria Park, TiptonRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Ryders Green LocksLake or reservoir640 m (0.4 miles) south-east
Tame Valley JunctionLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north
Ryders Green JunctionLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Joseph Ashe CopseWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east
Rounds HillHill3.2 km (2 miles) west
Bromford StopIsland3.3 km (2.1 miles) south-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)15.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)12.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
65 to 6930
Under 5503

3 of the street's 3 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Sandwell: see them on the Sandwell page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Great Bridge Primary SchoolPrimary3–11330 m No published inspection
Q3 Academy TiptonSecondary11–191 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Harvills Hawthorn Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Martin's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Joseph Turner Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Newtown Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Jubilee Park AcademyPrimary2–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ocker Hill Infant SchoolPrimary3–71.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Ocker Hill AcademyPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Summerhill Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Ryders Green Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
George Salter AcademySecondary11–191.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
New Sofia Groceries DY4 7ARRetailers - other50 m4 Good10 Nov 2025
The Lounge Bar and Restaurant DY4 7EJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good14 Apr 2023
Polonia Restaurant DY4 7ARRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m1 Major improvement necessary16 Nov 2025
Laddi Sweets And Caterers DY4 7ELTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m5 Very good21 Mar 2024
Cakeland DY4 7ELRetailers - other90 m5 Very good27 Feb 2020
Laddi's Food Heaven DY4 7ELRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m5 Very good29 May 2025
Hungry Square DY4 7ELTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m4 Good25 Mar 2026
Sourdo cafe.brunch DY4 7ELTakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good1 Oct 2026
Best One DY4 7EJRetailers - other100 m4 Good29 May 2025
Fish Box DY4 7ENTakeaway/sandwich shop110 m5 Very good9 Nov 2025
Best Chicken DY4 7EJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good2 Oct 2026
Night Star Pizza DY4 7EWTakeaway/sandwich shop120 mAwaiting inspection
European Super Store Ltd DY4 7EWRetailers - other130 m4 Good9 Nov 2025
Lidl UK GmbH DY4 7AHRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets170 m5 Very good15 Jun 2024
Wilkinson Hardware Stores DY4 7EWRetailers - other170 m5 Very good11 Jul 2019

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

94 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences35
Vehicle crime10
Other theft10
Criminal damage and arson9
Drugs6
Public order6
Possession of weapons4
Shoplifting4
Anti-social behaviour4
Burglary3
Other crime2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Shopping Area (26); On or near Market Place (18); On or near Supermarket (13); On or near Jonah Drive (7); On or near Leech Street (6).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 591 residents in 240 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3540
Children under 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over4%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)51%61%
Owned outright11%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented5%17%
Private rented43%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work73%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)4%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)23%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)65%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 3 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Roadworks Street works permit: HUTCHISON 3G LTD: Utility asset works, 3 November 2026 to 4 November 2026 (lane closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SANDWELL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 14 October 2026 to 15 October 2026 (lane closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: SANDWELL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 4 November 2026 (lane closure) found 3 November 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • DY4 7AR: 3 addresses of 55 in the postcode

Nearby streets

New Road · Horseley Heath · Market Place · Great Western Way · Meeting Street · Mill Street · Jonah Drive · Thomas Cox Wharf · Bramah Way · Jean Drive · Leech Street · Olympus Drive

All the streets in DY4 and across Sandwell.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.