Horseshoe Close Walsall

19 addresses across 1 postcode (WS2), about 50 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41903113.

  • 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: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 7, D: 8, E: 3).
  • 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: Its postcode is in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Landfill: 2 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Fellows Park Landfill Site, is 420 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Storm overflows: 6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 43 times (33 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.
  • Gas: No gas meters are recorded on its postcodes: it looks to be off the mains gas grid.
  • Energy projects: 3 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Tesco Superstore Wisemore, is 1.8 km (1.1 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A4148, carries 21,704 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bescot Stadium, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Pleck Park, is about 540 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: It is about 126 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 15 of its 19 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Pleck Health Centre, about 270 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 250 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 14% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 170 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 14 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 2 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.

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

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 August 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 46 m². Most common: Flat (18). Built: 1991-1995 (15); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (17); owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (18 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

No gas meters are recorded on the postcode, against 16 electricity meters: it looks to be off the mains gas grid, or almost, with heating from electricity, oil, LPG or solid fuel (8 meters are on Economy 7, the off-peak tariff for storage heaters).

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 WS2.

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 (84% of about 730 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

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

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Bloxwich Battery Walsall 16/1536 Battery storage 41 MW Operational Jul 2019 1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Tesco Superstore Wisemore Walsall 20/0008 Solar farm 1 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jul 2020 1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Wednesbury Sandwell DC/14/57758 Energy from waste (incinerator) 2 MW Being built Apr 2017 3.1 km (1.9 miles)
BH Energy Gap - Waste Energy Plant, The 3Rs Walsall 19/1172 Energy from waste (incinerator) 49 MW Being built Jan 2025 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

6 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 43 times, for 33 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Ford Brook, River Tame.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Wednesbury Road/Oxford Street Cso Severn Trent Water Ford Brook 13 7 600 m (0.4 miles)
Walsall - Milton St-Rosamond St Cso Severn Trent Water Ford Brook 1 0 610 m (0.4 miles)
Walsall Bridgeman Street Cso Severn Trent Water Ford Brook 6 1 820 m (0.5 miles)
Pleck Road Cso Severn Trent Water Ford Brook 9 5 820 m (0.5 miles)
Walsall Corporation Street West Cso Severn Trent Water Ford Brook 6 6 820 m (0.5 miles)
Poplar Road Cso Severn Trent Water River Tame 8 14 1 km (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 coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground.

Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.

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

2 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 420 m (0.3 miles) away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Fellows Park Landfill Site Wallows Lane, Bescot, Walsall, West Midlands 1920 to 1990 Industrial, commercial 420 m (0.3 miles)
Pleck Road Works Pleck Road, Walsall, West Midlands until 1981 Special (hazardous), liquid sludge 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 addresses are about 126 m above sea level.

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WS2 9RA100%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 stationsBescot Stadium 155,000 journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Walsall 1.2 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Tame Bridge Parkway 632,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops17 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wellington Street Alumwell70 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Car Park - Wallows Lane490 m (0.3 miles)
EV charging points8 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station580 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX21.9 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pleck Health Centre270 m
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Pleck Pharmacy270 m
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hillary Street Dental Surgery360 m
HospitalDorothy Pattison Hospital820 m (0.5 miles)
Care homes7 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bescot Lodge Care Home Requires improvement Nov 2021440 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationWest Midlands Police1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machinesBR Spar Walsall Manor Hospital, NHS Trust Cashzone850 m (0.5 miles)

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 Pleck Park 9.8 ha540 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,810 m²630 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.5 ha680 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.2 ha320 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 9.8 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Walsall Memorial Garden, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east. 1 listed building is within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Walsall Memorial GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Brunswick ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.1 km (1.3 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Pouk HillHill2 km (1.3 miles) north
Hatherton LakeLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Joseph Ashe CopseWood3.2 km (2 miles) south
Moorcroft JunctionLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) south-west
Lady PoolLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-east
Moorcroft WoodWood3.7 km (2.3 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)17.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.7205
Particles (PM10)15.04015

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 6410
55 to 59140
Under 55419

15 of the street's 19 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), 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
Hillary Primary SchoolPrimary3–11290 m Requires improvement (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Palfrey Junior SchoolPrimary7–11930 m (0.6 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; Safeguarding standards: Met 49% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
West Walsall E-ACT AcademySecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 37.9 (39.9 in 2025 and 38.7 in 2024); 28.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 15.4% AAB or better; progress average
Palfrey Infant SchoolPrimary2–71 km (0.6 miles) Requires improvement (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 41.5 (41.4 in 2025 and 43.6 in 2024); 27.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 10.5% AAB or better; progress below average
Alumwell Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.2 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Wood Green AcademySecondary11–181.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 43.9 (44.7 in 2025 and 45.9 in 2024); 39.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 12.1% AAB or better; progress average
Alumwell Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 43% in 2023)
Alumwell Infant SchoolPrimary4–71.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Caldmore Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
Salisbury Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Whitehall Nursery and Infant AcademyPrimary3–71.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Needs attention; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met None published

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

6 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 720 m (0.4 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Banana Moon Day Nursery Walsall WS2 9SS Full day care 43 May 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 720 m (0.4 miles)
Abu Bakr Nursery WS1 4JJ Sessional day care 41 Outstanding (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 740 m (0.5 miles)
Children's Learning Tree WS1 4HE Sessional day care 120 Good (Mar 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Small Street Day Nursery WS1 3PR Full day care 65 Good (Oct 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
KIDZ HUB WS2 9PG Out-of-school day care 50 Not inspected yet 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Kiddies Playhouse Ltd WS1 4BY Sessional day care 55 Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 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 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
New China Kitchen WS2 9QTTakeaway/sandwich shop90 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Jan 2025
Sundal Stores. WS2 9QTRetailers - other100 m4 Good14 Sep 2026
Pleck General Stores WS2 9RDRetailers - other130 m5 Very good31 Mar 2026
Lloyds Pharmacy WS2 9HYRetailers - other240 mExempt
Pepe's Piri Piri (Shops 1 & 2) WS2 9HETakeaway/sandwich shop250 m5 Very good16 Jan 2025
Uncle Phils WS2 9HETakeaway/sandwich shop250 m3 Generally satisfactory20 May 2024
Heavenly Desserts Walsall WS2 9HERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good10 Apr 2025
Matco Mega Mart WS2 9HDRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets270 m4 Good17 Sep 2026
Bangial Halal Meat WS2 9HDRetailers - other280 m3 Generally satisfactory15 Oct 2018
Pleck Balti, Restaurant & Take Away WS2 9QJRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen280 m5 Very good22 Apr 2026
Chunky Chicken/ Burger World WS2 9QJTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m2 Improvement necessary5 Feb 2026
Arctic Building Communities WS2 9TRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen340 m5 Very good17 Apr 2026
Aseer Supermarket WS2 9QJRetailers - other350 m5 Very good16 Jul 2026
Yaadgaar. WS2 9QNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 mAwaiting inspection
Delicious Bites WS2 9QNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen350 mAwaiting inspection

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.

170 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences88
Vehicle crime22
Other theft14
Anti-social behaviour13
Criminal damage and arson10
Drugs7
Other crime3
Shoplifting3
Public order3
Burglary2
Possession of weapons2
Bicycle theft2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Sadlers Court (37); On or near Wycliffe Grove (23); On or near Dawley Close (20); On or near Kingsley Street (18); On or near Merton Way (16).

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.

14 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 12 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 2 involved a pedestrian; 2 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 36% happened in the dark, and 36% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202160
202231
202300
202420
202531
The most recent 10 of 14
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
19 Aug 2025 16:45 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A4148, 30 mph Daylight
10 Jul 2025 19:31 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
18 Jun 2025 08:26 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian A4038, 30 mph Daylight
22 Aug 2024 16:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian A4038, 30 mph Daylight
5 Jul 2024 14:00 Slight 1 person A4038, 30 mph Daylight
1 Oct 2022 02:16 Slight 2 people A4148, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
28 Sep 2022 00:42 Slight 1 person A4148, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
12 Apr 2022 08:19 Serious 3 people A4148, 30 mph Wet road
30 Nov 2021 15:15 Slight 1 person A4038, 30 mph Daylight
13 Nov 2021 01:17 Slight 3 people A4038, 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 A4148 between A461 and A4038, with 21,704 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 340 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A4148 A4038 to A454 15,110 estimated; counted 2019 3% +4% since 2015 150 m
A4148 A461 to A4038 21,704 estimated; counted 2024 4% +21% 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: 250 residents in 126 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 age3340
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)14%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented68%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)11%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)11%32%
Travel to work by car or van59%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus18%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications22%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)77%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%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 Yaadgaar (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WS2 9QN) is no longer listed; it was rated 5 Very good found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Yaadgaar. (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WS2 9QN) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Afghan Corner (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WS2 9QN) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Matco Mega Mart (retailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets, WS2 9HD) re-inspected, still 4 Good (rated 17 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.

Nearby streets

Narrow Lane · Wellington Street · Dawley Close · Pleck Road · Wycliffe Grove · Kingsley Street · Thickett Close · Dora Street · Merton Way · Sadlers Court · St Quentin Street · Caledon Street

All the streets in WS2 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.