De Marnham Close West Bromwich, Sandwell

14 addresses across 1 postcode (B70), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 33614400.

  • Sales: 7 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £225,000 across 1 sale.
  • 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: 7 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 6).
  • 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.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 3 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Kelvin Energy Recovery Facility, is 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A41, carries 32,044 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Smethwick Galton Bridge, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Kenrick Park, is about 200 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 18.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.6 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 163 to 164 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 4 of its 14 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Dr Ui Haque N, about 300 m away, with 10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 560 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 139 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
20221£225,000£225,000£225,000
20211£331,000£331,000£331,000
20191£200,000£200,000£200,000
20121£122,000£122,000£122,000
20091£138,000£138,000£138,000
20041£115,000£115,000£115,000
20001£59,000£59,000£59,000
All 7 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Apr 20042 B70 6RJSemi-detached£115,000
26 Oct 20123 B70 6RJSemi-detached£122,000
14 Jan 20224 B70 6RJSemi-detached£225,000
21 May 20215 B70 6RJSemi-detached£331,000
5 Apr 20005 B70 6RJSemi-detached£59,000
22 Nov 201912 B70 6RJTerraced£200,000
13 Oct 200912 B70 6RJTerraced£138,000

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 June 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

7 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 76 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (4); House, mid-terrace (3). Built: 1967-1975 (4); 1976-1982 (2); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (4); rented (social) (1); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (7 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,052 kWh of it on average in 2024, 13% less than the district's 11,553 kWh, and 2,217 kWh of electricity, 24% less than the district's 2,933 kWh. There are gas meters for about 92% 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 B70.

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.

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 (68% of about 1,050 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

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

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Kelvin Energy Recovery Facility Sandwell DC/17/61177 Energy from waste (incinerator) 47 MW Being built Nov 2021 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Kelvin Energy Recovery Facility Sandwell DC/17/61177 Energy from waste (incinerator) 47 MW Being built Nov 2021 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
DPD Distribution Centre Sandwell PD/15/00438 Solar farm 1 MW Operational Jan 2017 1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Broadwell Road - Solar Panels Sandwell PD/22/02136 Solar farm 1 MW Permission granted, not yet built Oct 2022 2 km (1.2 miles)
Oldbury Sandwell DC/10/52897 Advanced Conversion Technologies 40 MW Operational Jan 2014 3.3 km (2 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

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 1 to 3%: 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. 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 14 addresses are between 163 m and 164 m above sea level (164 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
B70 6RJ100%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 stationsSmethwick Galton Bridge 698,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
The Hawthorns 334,000 journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Smethwick Rolfe Street 404,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Underground, metro or tramKenrick Park (West Midlands Metro)200 m
Trinity Way (West Midlands Metro)440 m (0.3 miles)
West Bromwich Central (West Midlands Metro)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Bus stops7 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 29 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Roebuck Lane West Bromwich180 m
Bus or coach stationWest Bromwich Bus Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Mercure Birmingham West Car Park510 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea480 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX17.1 km (11 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 surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dr Ui Haque N Good Aug 2025300 m
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Khaira Pharmacy300 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery400 m (0.2 miles)
HospitalSkin Hospital2 km (1.3 miles)
Care homes11 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Birmingham Road Good Jan 2019220 m
Police stationWest Bromwich Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone160 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 Kenrick Park 5.9 ha200 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 420 m²250 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,950 m²260 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kenrick Park Allotments 1.1 ha310 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 5.9 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Summit Bridge, a listed building (Grade II*), 890 m (0.6 miles) south. 14 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade I and 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Summit BridgeListed building, Grade II*890 m (0.6 miles) south
Smeaton's Summit BridgeScheduled monument890 m (0.6 miles) south
Galton Bridge Including Attached Railway Bridge Span, Roebuck Lane Birmingham Canal Birmingham LevelListed building, Grade I1 km (0.6 miles) south
Chances Glassworks, SmethwickScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Dartmouth ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Sandwell Priory, a Benedictine monasteryScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Priory WoodsWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Bromford JunctionLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) west
Bromford StopIsland1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Swan PoolLake or reservoir2 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Smethwick Hall PoolLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Turner's HillHill4.8 km (3 miles) 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)18.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.6205
Particles (PM10)14.84015

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 5940
Under 551014

4 of the street's 14 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), 6 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
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11410 m (0.3 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 64% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)
Sandwell College16 plus16–99820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade D+; 3.3% AAB or better; progress below average
Sandwell AcademySecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 49.0 (49.1 in 2025 and 47.7 in 2024); 48.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 14.5% AAB or better; progress above average
King George V Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 39% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)
Lyng Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
George Betts Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 80% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 19% at the higher standard (2025; 76% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
Galton Valley Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
Holly Lodge High School College of ScienceSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 38.5 (42.1 in 2025 and 39.9 in 2024); 29.3% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 10.5% AAB or better; progress above average
West Bromwich Collegiate AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 48.4 (45.3 in 2025 and 43.0 in 2024); 46.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
Shireland CBSO AcademySecondary11–191.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection GCSE figures withheld (2026, provisional)
Lodge Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No published inspection 61% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 74% in 2023)
Shireland Biomedical UtcSecondary11–191.7 km (1.1 miles) Requires improvement (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE figures withheld (2026, provisional)
A level 2025: average grade C-; 13.3% AAB or better; progress average

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

7 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 710 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
SADWICA Day Nursery B70 6HQ Full day care 52 Good (Aug 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 710 m (0.4 miles)
Spon Lane Day Nursery B70 6AB Full day care 40 Good (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 730 m (0.5 miles)
G.A.P Academy B70 7QX Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 930 m (0.6 miles)
Tiny Tots Academy B70 7NX Full day care 41 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Stepping Stones Pre-School B66 1EX Full day care 30 Good (Aug 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Bright Lights Day Care B66 1DH Sessional day care 36 Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Little Learners Day Nursery B66 1NN Full day care 52 Not inspected yet 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 6 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
999 PIZZA TOPPINGS (BIRMINGHAM) LTD B70 6QPDistributors/Transporters160 m5 Very good22 Jan 2026
Mibsons West Bromwich Ltd B70 6QGRetailers - other160 m5 Very good12 Sep 2018
Salisbury Stores B70 6JYRetailers - other160 m4 Good23 Oct 2019
Sandwell Valley School B70 6QTSchool/college/university250 m5 Very good7 Nov 2023
The Vine B70 6RDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m4 Good15 Sep 2025
Junction 1 Fish Bar B70 6JXTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m3 Generally satisfactory3 Feb 2025
The Sportsman Club B70 6PPPub/bar/nightclub340 m5 Very good16 Sep 2024
Newstop B70 6JXRetailers - other340 m5 Very good14 Aug 2019
Caldene Rest Home B70 6QEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good26 Feb 2025
Red Leaf Global Buffet B70 6PJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen380 m3 Generally satisfactory14 May 2026
Richmond Court Residential Home B70 6QEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises390 m5 Very good23 Mar 2026
Sagar Restaurant & Sweets B70 6PHRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Meat Master B70 6PBRetailers - other470 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary29 Jun 2026
Aujla Supermarket B70 6PBRetailers - other480 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory30 Nov 2024
Desi Junction B70 6PBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen500 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Jun 2025

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.

139 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences75
Vehicle crime20
Criminal damage and arson14
Drugs5
Other crime5
Robbery5
Shoplifting4
Public order4
Anti-social behaviour3
Other theft2
Possession of weapons1
Burglary1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Pavilions (30); On or near Roebuck Street (30); On or near Petrol Station (18); On or near Bagnall Street (14); On or near Roebuck Lane (12).

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. 100% happened in the dark, and 100% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202111
202200
202300
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
1 Sep 2021 00:29 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road

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 A41 between M5 Junction 1 and A4031 Sandwell, with 32,044 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 500 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A4252 A4182 to M5/A41 24,302 estimated; counted 2023 9% +13% since 2015 490 m (0.3 miles)
A41 M5 Junction 1 to A4031 Sandwell 32,044 estimated; counted 2023 7% +53% since 2015 500 m (0.3 miles)

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: 555 residents in 190 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 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership3%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work52%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)19%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)2%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram9%4%
By any public transport, including bus17%8%
On foot or by bicycle7%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)79%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)28%34%
No qualifications36%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)67%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all10%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

Paganal Drive · Salters Vale · Roebuck Lane · The Pavilions · Salisbury Road · Fitzguy Close · Birmingham Road · Burlington Avenue · Roebuck Street · Barlow Drive · Springfield Crescent · Beeches Road Passage

All the streets in B70 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.