Bell Tower Close Bloxwich, Walsall

37 addresses across 1 postcode (WS3), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41900052.

  • Sales: 59 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £98,500 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Walsall cost £216,878 in August 2026 (+2.6% on a year); private rents averaged £930 a month.
  • Energy: 29 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 25).
  • 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.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 0 times (0 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, BH Energy Gap - Waste Energy Plant, The 3Rs, is 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Walsall costs £2,627 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 82% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bloxwich, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 90 m away, and The Lea (6.1 hectares) is about 690 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.0 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 153 to 156 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 37 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Harden Blakenall, about 300 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 239 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, and it was serious; 1 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
20262£98,500£97,000£100,000
20251£242,000£242,000£242,000
20231£100,000£100,000£100,000
20222£149,750£100,500£199,000
20212£92,000£87,500£96,500
20204£85,000£85,000£96,500
20191£85,000£85,000£85,000
20182£85,000£82,500£87,500
20173£80,000£78,000£95,000
20162£85,500£82,000£89,000
20144£79,000£76,000£92,500
20133£77,500£72,000£130,000
All 59 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
27 Jan 20121 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£95,000New build. Leasehold.
23 Feb 20102 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£105,995New build. Leasehold.
23 Jul 20103 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£109,999New build. Leasehold.
14 Nov 20225 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£100,500Leasehold.
31 Jan 20205 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
5 May 20175 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
1 Aug 20135 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£72,000New build. Leasehold.
19 Dec 20236 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold.
12 Sep 20146 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£92,500Leasehold.
2 Mar 20126 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£90,000New build. Leasehold.
16 Jan 20267 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold.
15 Dec 20177 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£78,000Leasehold.
28 Feb 20137 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£77,500New build. Leasehold.
11 Sep 20208 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£96,500Leasehold.
20 Dec 20108 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£100,000New build. Leasehold.
31 Oct 20169 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£89,000Leasehold.
21 Dec 20109 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£100,000New build. Leasehold.
21 Dec 202110 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£87,500Leasehold.
20 Apr 201210 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£82,000New build. Leasehold.
11 Apr 201811 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£82,500Leasehold.
2 Dec 201111 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£84,995New build. Leasehold.
2 Oct 202012 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
24 Jun 201112 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£84,995New build. Leasehold.
20 Jan 201214 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£84,995New build. Leasehold.
31 Jan 201215 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£70,000New build. Leasehold.
31 Jan 201216 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£70,000New build. Leasehold.
31 Jan 201217 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£70,000New build. Leasehold.
31 Jan 201218 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£70,000New build. Leasehold.
17 Jan 201319 WS3 3FBTerraced£130,000New build.
25 Nov 201020 WS3 3FBTerraced£144,995New build.
26 Nov 201021 WS3 3FBTerraced£139,995New build.
24 Sep 201022 WS3 3FBTerraced£144,495New build.
8 Aug 202523 WS3 3FBTerraced£242,000
30 Jul 201023 WS3 3FBTerraced£144,995New build.
3 Sep 201024 WS3 3FBTerraced£144,995New build.
2 Dec 202225 WS3 3FBTerraced£199,000
20 May 202225 WS3 3FBTerraced£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jul 201025 WS3 3FBTerraced£144,495New build.
25 May 201226 WS3 3FBTerraced£143,915New build.
30 Jul 201027 WS3 3FBTerraced£150,000
22 Jan 201428 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£76,000Leasehold.
31 Jul 200928 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£99,999New build. Leasehold.
25 Jun 201929 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
12 Dec 201429 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£76,000Leasehold.
23 Apr 201029 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£99,500New build. Leasehold.
2 Sep 202130 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£82,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Dec 200830 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£108,500New build. Leasehold.
23 Sep 200931 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£105,995New build. Leasehold.
30 Jan 202632 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£97,000Leasehold.
13 Mar 202032 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£85,000Leasehold.
18 Mar 201632 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£82,000Leasehold.
22 Dec 201432 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£82,000Leasehold.
23 Jan 201032 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£100,000New build. Leasehold.
18 Sep 201733 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£95,000Leasehold.
21 Jun 201333 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£64,950Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Sep 200933 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£111,250New build. Leasehold.
28 Feb 201834 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£87,500Leasehold.
1 Oct 202135 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£96,500Leasehold.
8 Sep 200935 WS3 3FBFlat or maisonette£132,995New build. Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Walsall

A typical home in Walsall cost £216,878 in August 2026, 2.6% more than a year before. That is 19% more than five years earlier and 55% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£355,603
Semi-detached£231,664
Terraced£192,096
Flat or maisonette£121,871
Bought by a first-time buyer£199,456

Private renters in Walsall paid £930 a month on average in September 2026, 9.4% more than a year before. That is 40% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£657
Two bedrooms£802
Three bedrooms£960
Four or more bedrooms£1,334

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 July 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

29 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 61 m². Most common: Flat (23); House, end-terrace (3); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 2007-2011 (17); 2005 (4); 2006 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (15); rented (private) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (29 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 6,059 kWh of it on average in 2024, 44% less than the district's 10,816 kWh, and 1,920 kWh of electricity, 42% less than the district's 3,298 kWh. There are gas meters for about 97% 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 WS3.

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 Walsall in 2026-27: Band D £2,627 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,752£2,044£2,336£2,627£3,211£3,795£4,379£5,255

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (86% of about 690 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.

Energy projects nearby

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
BH Energy Gap - Waste Energy Plant, The 3Rs Walsall 19/1172 Energy from waste (incinerator) 49 MW Being built Jan 2025 1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Highfields South Landfill Gas Walsall 12/0926/FL Landfill Gas 1 MW Operational Sep 2012 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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 0 times, for under an hour in all, in 2025. They discharge into Ford Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Walsall – Mackay Rd/Shackleton Rd (Cso) Severn Trent Water Ford Brook 0 0 910 m (0.6 miles)

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 with radon potential up to 5 to 10%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

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

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 37 addresses are between 153 m and 156 m above sea level (154 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
WS3 3FB100%82%82%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 stationsBloxwich 114,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bloxwich North 123,000 journeys in 2024–252.1 km (1.3 miles)
Walsall 1.2 million journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 65 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Blakenall Church Blakenall Heath60 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station3.3 km (2.1 miles)
Car parksElmore Row Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX24.4 km (15 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harden Blakenall Good Oct 2022300 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Blakenall Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Harden Dental Surgery Partnership670 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalGoscote Hospital900 m (0.6 miles)
Care homes13 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Cottage Nursing Home Good Jan 2020100 m
Police stationBloxwich Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM150 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,100 m²90 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)The Lea 6.1 ha690 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 270 m²90 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha280 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5,050 m²550 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 6.4 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Cross in All Saints churchyard, a scheduled monument, 1 km (0.6 miles) west. 5 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Cross in All Saints churchyardScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lady PoolLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Rails WoodWood2.5 km (1.5 miles) north-east
Rough WoodWood2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Sneyd ReservoirLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) west
Pelsall WoodWood2.8 km (1.7 miles) north
Pouk HillHill3 km (1.9 miles) south-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)13.04010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)12.64015

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
55 to 59100
Under 552737

10 of the street's 37 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 Walsall: see them on the Walsall page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 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
Valley Nursery SchoolNursery2–470 m No published inspection
Sunshine AcademyPrimary3–7390 m Good (Dec 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Field Road AcademyPrimary7–11480 m (0.3 miles) Good (Jan 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Rivers Primary AcademyPrimary3–11610 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 82% in 2024 and 72% in 2023)
Leamore Primary SchoolPrimary2–11660 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Goldsmith Primary AcademyPrimary2–11660 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Exceptional; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 75% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 74% in 2023)
Christ Church Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11790 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
St Peter's Catholic Primary School, Bloxwich Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 54% in 2024 and 35% in 2023)
All Saints National Academy Church of EnglandPrimary5–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 36% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 24% in 2024 and 33% in 2023)
Millfields Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Walsall AcademySecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 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: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 43.5 (43.9 in 2025 and 43.7 in 2024); 34.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 11.6% AAB or better; progress above average
Sandbank Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection

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

3 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 1.4 km (0.8 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Tots Care WS3 1RQ Sessional day care 24 Good (Jun 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Kangaroo Pouch Day Nursery WS3 1RQ Full day care 53 Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Simply Out Of School WS3 1SP Out-of-school day care 28 Not inspected yet 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 68 childminders and 27 home childcarers (nannies) in Walsall. 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 4 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
Valley Nursery School WS3 1HTHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises70 m3 Generally satisfactory6 Jun 2023
The Cottage Nursing Home WS3 1HSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m5 Very good9 Jul 2026
Kings Head WS3 1LUPub/bar/nightclub120 m4 Good30 Jan 2018
King Cod Chippy WS3 1HLTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m3 Generally satisfactory30 Jul 2025
Ash Grange Nursing Home WS3 3ERHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 m5 Very good10 Sep 2026
The Cob Shop WS3 1LUTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m4 Good18 Aug 2025
Blakenall Mini Market WS3 1LPRetailers - other170 m3 Generally satisfactory10 Jan 2025
Valley Wines WS3 3ERRetailers - other170 m3 Generally satisfactory28 May 2025
Golden Kitchen WS3 3ERTakeaway/sandwich shop170 m5 Very good14 Oct 2026
Blakenall United Reformed Church WS3 1HJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 mExempt
Best Butties WS3 1HJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good3 Mar 2026
J & N Super Foodstore (Nisa Local) WS3 1HJRetailers - other190 m5 Very good3 Oct 2025
Mb Meats WS3 1HJManufacturers/packers190 m1 Major improvement necessary10 May 2025
Palace Play, Pantry & Treats WS3 1LWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good21 Jan 2020
Heron Foods WS3 1HURetailers - other210 m5 Very good21 Sep 2020

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.

239 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences90
Criminal damage and arson30
Burglary23
Vehicle crime18
Other theft17
Anti-social behaviour12
Public order12
Drugs11
Other crime10
Possession of weapons7
Robbery5
Shoplifting3
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Booth Close (84); On or near Booth Street (43); On or near Church Place (19); On or near Stanley Street (18); On or near Blakenall Row (18).

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.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202211
202300
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
24 Mar 2022 17:24 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 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

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

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: 373 residents in 125 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 age3140
Children under 1527%17%
Aged 65 and over14%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)44%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented32%17%
Private rented23%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work43%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)19%6%
Retired (of adults)21%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van68%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)65%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Golden Kitchen (takeaway/sandwich shop, WS3 3ER) newly listed: 5 Very good (rated 14 October 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Ash Grange Nursing Home (hospitals/childcare/caring premises, WS3 3ER) now 5 Very good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 10 September 2026) found 30 October 2026

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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.

  • WS3 3FB: 37 addresses of 39 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Blakenall Lane · Blakenall Heath · Usk Close · Church Place · Blakenall Lane · Valley Road · Trent Place · Barracks Lane · Booth Close · Stanley Street · Blakenall Row · Smithfield Road

All the streets in WS3 and across Walsall.

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.