Bedworth Croft Tipton, Sandwell

9 addresses across 1 postcode (DY4), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 33603870.

  • Sales: 7 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £325,000 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Sandwell cost £207,065 in August 2026 (+0% on a year); private rents averaged £953 a month.
  • Energy: 3 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Landfill: 3 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Sheepwash Lane Landfill Site, is 130 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 2 times (11 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 3 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Wednesbury, is 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A461, carries 24,663 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Sandwell costs £2,244 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Dudley Port, about 200 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Sheepwash Urban Park, is about 250 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 133 to 135 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Victoria Surgery, about 620 m (0.4 miles) away, with 4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 450 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 82% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 158 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often shoplifting.
  • Road safety: 5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 3 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20222£325,000£290,000£360,000
20181£245,000£245,000£245,000
20131£195,000£195,000£195,000
20021£85,000£85,000£85,000
19991£76,000£76,000£76,000
19961£82,500£82,500£82,500
All 7 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
21 May 20133 DY4 7RUDetached£195,000
29 Jul 19964 DY4 7RUDetached£82,500
21 Jan 20225 DY4 7RUDetached£360,000
23 Nov 20189 DY4 7RUDetached£245,000
21 Jun 20029 DY4 7RUDetached£85,000
18 Nov 202211 DY4 7RUSemi-detached£290,000
2 Jul 199911 DY4 7RUSemi-detached£76,000

House prices and rents in Sandwell

A typical home in Sandwell cost £207,065 in August 2026, the same as a year before. That is 21% more than five years earlier and 67% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£329,048
Semi-detached£228,439
Terraced£193,105
Flat or maisonette£111,697
Bought by a first-time buyer£196,942

Private renters in Sandwell paid £953 a month on average in September 2026, 7.3% more than a year before. That is 43% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£680
Two bedrooms£851
Three bedrooms£1,015
Four or more bedrooms£1,405

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 dates from March 2018 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

3 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 99 m². Most common: House, detached (3). Built: 1991-1995 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 15,525 kWh of it on average in 2024, 50% more than the district's 10,333 kWh, and 4,724 kWh of electricity, 48% more than the district's 3,190 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is DY4.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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.

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£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 C (35% of about 710 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), 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.

Energy projects nearby

6 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 3 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Oldbury Sandwell DC/10/52897 Advanced Conversion Technologies 40 MW Operational Jan 2014 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Wednesbury Sandwell DC/14/57758 Energy from waste (incinerator) 2 MW Being built Apr 2017 3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Dudley EfW Energy from waste (incinerator) 7.4 MW Operational Feb 1998 3.6 km (2.3 miles)
Edwin Richards Landfill Scheme Landfill Gas 1.8 MW Operational Jun 2002 3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Kelvin Energy Recovery Facility Sandwell DC/17/61177 Energy from waste (incinerator) 47 MW Being built Nov 2021 3.8 km (2.4 miles)
Kelvin Energy Recovery Facility Sandwell DC/17/61177 Energy from waste (incinerator) 47 MW Being built Nov 2021 3.8 km (2.4 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 22 September 2026: SANDWELL METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Works for road purposes, some carriageway incursion, on the footway (minor 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 2 times, for 11 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Groveland Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Dudley Port - Horseley Heath (Cso) Severn Trent Water Groveland Brook 2 11 300 m

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

This postcode is in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

3 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 130 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Sheepwash Lane Landfill Site Tame Road, Tipton, West Midlands 1962 to 1983 Inert, industrial; gas control on site 130 m
Rear Of London Steel Works Duport Properties Ltd, Tipton Road, Tividale, West Midlands 1977 to 1978 Inert, industrial 320 m
Tame Road Allotments Tame Road, Tipton, West Midlands 1987 to 1989 Inert, industrial 490 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 9 addresses are between 133 m and 135 m above sea level (134 m on average).

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 7RU100%100%100%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 2024–25200 m
Tipton 359,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Sandwell and Dudley 1.0 million journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramDudley Port (West Midlands Metro)270 m
Horseley Road (West Midlands Metro)630 m (0.4 miles)
Sedgley Road (West Midlands Metro)770 m (0.5 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 19 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Dudley Port Station130 m
Bus or coach stationDudley Bus Station2.5 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Osprey Charging Station350 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX21.8 km (14 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Victoria Surgery Good Jan 2026620 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Duggals Chemist350 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery780 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalGuest Hospital1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Care homes2 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ryland View Care Home Good Jan 2026680 m (0.4 miles)
Police stationTipton Police Station720 m (0.4 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM210 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Sheepwash Urban Park 39 ha250 m
Play areaUnnamed 1,390 m²1 km (0.6 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 2.0 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,860 m²700 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 52 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Victoria Park, Tipton, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1 km (0.6 miles) west. 8 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 km (0.6 miles) west
Priory Park, DudleyRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.7 km (1.7 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Watery Lane JunctionLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-west
Ryders Green LocksLake or reservoir1.4 km (0.9 miles) east
Darby's HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
Weddell Wynd Community WoodlandWood2.8 km (1.7 miles) north
Bromford StopIsland3.3 km (2.1 miles) south-east
The GorgeValley4.8 km (3 miles) north-west

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)14.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.0205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

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
60 to 6401
55 to 5924
Under 5574

2 of the street's 9 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 5 from railways, 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), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
St Martin's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11610 m (0.4 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 39% in 2023)
Sacred Heart Primary SchoolPrimary3–11750 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 59% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
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 GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 34.1 (36.4 in 2025 and 32.9 in 2024); 13.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade D+; 0% AAB or better; progress below average
Tividale Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 72% in 2023)
Newtown Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 31% in 2023)
Burnt Tree Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 82% in 2024 and 76% in 2023)
Great Bridge Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Silvertrees AcademyPrimary3–71.4 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good None published
Tipton Green Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 35% in 2024 and 51% in 2023)
Joseph Turner Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
Summerhill Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) 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 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 51% in 2023)
Ormiston Sandwell Community AcademySecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 44.7 (42.3 in 2025 and 39.9 in 2024); 42.9% grade 5+ in English and maths

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.4 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 510 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Smarty Pants Private Day Nursery Ltd DY4 7QP Full day care 49 Good (Dec 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 510 m (0.3 miles)
Tipton Toddlers Day Nursery DY4 7TB Full day care 72 Apr 2026: Strong standard in 6 areas 700 m (0.4 miles)
4 Community Trust St Martins DY4 7PG Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 790 m (0.5 miles)
Tiny Toez @ Tividale DY4 7SD Full day care 82 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
4 Community Trust Tividale community B69 2HT Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
4 Community Trust Burnt Tree B69 2LN Out-of-school day care 25 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Tiddlywinks Kiddies Nursery DY4 8LF Full day care 73 Good (Aug 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Joseph Turner 4 Community Trust DY4 0RN Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Kangaroo Pouch At Great Bridge DY4 7BX Full day care 69 Good (Aug 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Kiddies Playhouse Tipton DY4 8QJ Full day care 56 Good (Oct 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 81 childminders and 30 home childcarers (nannies) in Sandwell. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
Royal Oak Bar And Grill DY4 7PRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m2 Improvement necessary19 Mar 2025
PS Foods at Royal Oak Bar & Grill DY4 7PRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m4 Good12 Aug 2026
Dudley Port School DY4 7QRSchool/college/university150 m5 Very good14 May 2024
House of Chaii Ltd DY4 7PRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good21 Feb 2025
Jolly's Finest Fish Bar DY4 7PRTakeaway/sandwich shop220 m3 Generally satisfactory14 Nov 2025
Jarmark DY4 7PPRetailers - other240 m5 Very good27 Apr 2023
New Testament Church of God DY4 7QTOther catering premises260 m5 Very good8 Dec 2017
One Stop DY4 7RPRetailers - other290 m5 Very good12 Jul 2018
The Island House DY4 7RPTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m5 Very good22 May 2024
Bassi Sweet Centre DY4 7QTRetailers - other320 m5 Very good14 Jan 2025
Royals Takeaway DY4 7QTTakeaway/sandwich shop320 m4 Good17 Mar 2025
Tipton Wine Centre DY4 7PERetailers - other330 m5 Very good19 Jun 2019
J.K. Duggal Chemists DY4 7PERetailers - other330 mExempt
The Horseley Tavern Pub DY4 7QTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m4 Good1 Dec 2025
Pizza Star DY4 7PETakeaway/sandwich shop330 m5 Very good16 Jun 2026

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.

158 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Shoplifting90
Violence and sexual offences33
Vehicle crime7
Other theft7
Burglary6
Public order5
Criminal damage and arson3
Anti-social behaviour2
Drugs2
Possession of weapons1
Robbery1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Jays Avenue (112); On or near Wenyon Close (7); On or near Station Drive (6); On or near St Paul'S Drive (6); On or near Brock Road (6).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 5 slight. 3 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a motorcyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 60% happened in the dark, and 40% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202120
202200
202320
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
30 Apr 2024 07:54 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist A461, 30 mph Daylight
23 Nov 2023 10:01 Slight 3 people: 1 child A461, 30 mph Dark, street lights off, wet road
22 Jan 2023 18:07 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A461, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
10 Sep 2021 23:50 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A461, 30 mph Dark
13 Apr 2021 18:30 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A461, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A461 between A457 and A41, with 24,663 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 340 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A461 A457 to A41 24,663 estimated; counted 2022 4% +12% since 2015 340 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 445 residents in 138 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 age3740
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)82%61%
Owned outright36%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rentedunder 1%17%
Private rented17%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work63%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van70%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%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)24%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)66%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all8%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 6 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

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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.

Nearby streets

Haines Close · Wenyon Close · Amphlett Croft · Peake Drive · Dudley Port · Hellier Avenue · Peacock Close · John's Lane · St Paul's Drive · Brock Road · Jays Avenue · Smith Place

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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.