Morjon Drive West Bromwich, Sandwell

36 addresses across 4 postcodes (B43), about 290 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 33633460.

  • Sales: 39 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £350,000 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: 15 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 7, E: 5, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • 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: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Chapel Lane - Battery Energy Storage System, is 1.5 km (1 mile) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A34, carries 36,482 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Sandwell costs £2,244 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Hamstead (Birmingham), about 1.9 km (1.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Red House Park, is about 570 m (0.4 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.4 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 148 to 159 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 8 of its 36 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Scott Arms Medical Centre, about 430 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,080 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 86% of households owned their home and 32% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 35 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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
20261£350,000£350,000£350,000
20251£452,000£452,000£452,000
20241£420,000£420,000£420,000
20232£318,500£257,000£380,000
20214£268,750£257,500£380,000
20191£195,000£195,000£195,000
20181£392,000£392,000£392,000
20162£201,750£191,000£212,500
20152£178,000£175,000£181,000
20141£285,000£285,000£285,000
20101£140,000£140,000£140,000
20091£132,500£132,500£132,500
All 39 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jan 20211 B43 6JHDetached£380,000
11 Dec 20061 B43 6JHDetached£220,000
24 Apr 20061 B43 6JHDetached£374,834
5 Jan 20162 B43 6JHSemi-detached£191,000
1 Jun 20002 B43 6JHSemi-detached£95,000
28 Apr 19972 B43 6JHSemi-detached£59,000
17 Mar 20254 B43 6JHSemi-detached£255,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 May 20154 B43 6JHSemi-detached£175,000
16 Aug 20024 B43 6JHSemi-detached£104,000
2 Sep 19994 B43 6JHSemi-detached£63,000
25 Jul 20255 B43 6JHDetached£452,000
29 Mar 20189 B43 6JHDetached£392,000
27 Jun 202410 B43 6JJDetached£420,000
8 Dec 201410 B43 6JJDetached£285,000
2 Nov 200510 B43 6JJTerraced£156,200
16 Jan 199812 B43 6JJTerraced£80,000
25 May 202313 B43 6JJSemi-detached£380,000
4 Mar 201613 B43 6JJSemi-detached£212,500
16 Sep 201013 B43 6JJSemi-detached£140,000
29 Oct 202114 B43 6JJDetached£272,000
25 Apr 201915 B43 6JJSemi-detached£195,000
1 Dec 200416 B43 6JJSemi-detached£303,000
3 Mar 202317 B43 6JJSemi-detached£257,000
10 May 199618 B43 6JJTerraced£73,500
16 Dec 200419 B43 6JJSemi-detached£158,000
5 Mar 200419 B43 6JJSemi-detached£148,500
26 Mar 199719 B43 6JJSemi-detached£58,000
4 Aug 200621 B43 6JJSemi-detached£171,000
30 Sep 202122 B43 6JJTerraced£257,500
30 Oct 201522 B43 6JJTerraced£181,000
4 Mar 200922 B43 6JJTerraced£132,500
27 Apr 202623 B43 6JJSemi-detached£350,000
25 Oct 199623 B43 6JJSemi-detached£47,500
9 Feb 200424 B43 6JJSemi-detached£146,950
6 Aug 199924 B43 6JJSemi-detached£69,950
28 Nov 199526 B43 6JJSemi-detached£55,000
24 Sep 202127 B43 6JJSemi-detached£265,500
21 Jun 200231 B43 6JJSemi-detached£120,000
30 Jul 199931 B43 6JJSemi-detached£74,000

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 April 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 92 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (8); House, detached (6); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1930-1949 (12); 1967-1975 (1); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (15 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 15,444 kWh of it on average in 2024, 24% more than the district's 12,494 kWh, and 2,826 kWh of electricity, 12% less than the district's 3,217 kWh. There are gas meters for about 98% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
B43 6JJ222,390 kWh 2213,537 kWh
B43 6JH102,311 kWh 1018,991 kWh
B43 6PD212,342 kWh 2013,846 kWh
B43 6PP102,551 kWh 1015,587 kWh

These are all the homes on each 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 B43.

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 C (66% of about 700 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

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

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

Energy projects nearby

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

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Chapel Lane - Battery Energy Storage System Walsall 23/1286 Battery storage 49.4 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jan 2025 1.5 km (1 mile)
Bustleholme Substation Sandwell DC/20/64437 Battery storage 49.9 MW Operational Oct 2023 1.7 km (1.1 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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

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

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

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
B43 6JJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B43 6JHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
B43 6PDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B43 6PPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any 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

4 of the street's 4 postcodes are 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 highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 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 that area 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 36 addresses are between 148 m and 159 m above sea level (155 m on average); the ground rises about 11 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
B43 6JH100%100%100%0%
B43 6JJ100%100%100%0%
B43 6PD100%100%100%0%
B43 6PP100%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 stationsHamstead (Birmingham) 231,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Tame Bridge Parkway 632,000 journeys in 2024–253.1 km (1.9 miles)
Perry Barr 185,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.5 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morjon Drive Junction Gorse Farm110 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station5.3 km (3.3 miles)
Car parksForge Mill Car Park2.7 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station430 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX16.3 km (10 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Scott Arms Medical Centre Good Jun 2025430 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies4 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Scott Arms Pharmacy And Travel Clinic380 m
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery470 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalSkin Hospital4.5 km (2.8 miles)
Care homes1 home within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Willows Good Jan 20181.1 km (0.7 miles)
Police stationWest Midlands Police - Perry Barr Police Station2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Great Barr, Great Barr Cashzone450 m (0.3 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 Red House Park 18 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,570 m²610 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.0 ha1.6 km (1 mile)
AllotmentsThornbridge Avenue Allotments 1.9 ha1.8 km (1.1 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 18 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Great Barr Hall, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1 km (0.6 miles) north. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Great Barr HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Gilbert's WoodWood750 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Perry WoodWood750 m (0.5 miles) south
Holly WoodWood790 m (0.5 miles) east
Forge Mill LakeLake or reservoir2.5 km (1.5 miles) south-west
Barr BeaconHill3.2 km (2 miles) north-east
The DingleValley4.4 km (2.8 miles) north

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)16.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.4205
Particles (PM10)14.54015

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 5980
Under 552836

8 of the street's 36 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), 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
Holy Name Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11350 m No published inspection None published
Whitecrest Primary SchoolPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 74% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
Ferndale Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jun 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 14% at the higher standard (2025; 46% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)
Grove Vale Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 83% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 83% in 2024 and 78% in 2023)
Q3 Academy Great Barr ChristianSecondary11–191.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 44.1 (44.2 in 2025 and 44.5 in 2024); 45.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C+; 4.2% AAB or better; progress average
St Margaret's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
Calshot Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
St Mark's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Hamstead Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 61% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
Arena AcademySecondary11–161.8 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.7 (44.5 in 2025 and 41.7 in 2024); 35.9% grade 5+ in English and maths
Beeches Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)
Perry Beeches Nursery SchoolNursery3–51.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Jul 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Inadequate

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

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.5 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 300 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Fairytales Nursery B43 6NR Full day care 53 Good (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 300 m
Helping Hands B43 6LN Out-of-school day care 30 Not inspected yet 370 m
Whitecrest latchkey club B43 6HQ Out-of-school day care 12 Not inspected yet 480 m (0.3 miles)
Santos Day Nurseries B43 7AB Full day care 51 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 510 m (0.3 miles)
Angels Day Nursery Great Barr B42 1EU Full day care 90 Good (Aug 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Educational Tutoring Services B42 2BH Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)
Little Valers Pre-school Committee B43 6AL Full day care 24 Jan 2026: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 5 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Junior Adventures Group @ Ferndale B43 B43 5QF Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Helping Hands B43 7AP Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
5 Star Day Nursery B43 5NP Full day care 48 Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.5 km (0.9 miles)

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

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

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Simla Spice B43 6PLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m4 Good26 Jan 2026
Supershop B43 6PBRetailers - other250 m5 Very good3 Oct 2019
The Pink. B43 6NRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good29 Sep 2026
Perico B43 6NRTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Feb 2026
Wok 2 Vegan B43 6NRTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m5 Very good17 Jul 2024
Burger Boi B43 6NRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good13 Jun 2025
Casa de Burrito B43 6NRTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Sep 2025
Apple & Apple off Licence B43 6NRRetailers - other300 m5 Very good7 Dec 2020
Shika's Indian Takeaway B43 6NRTakeaway/sandwich shop300 mAwaiting publication
Fairytales Nursery B43 6NRSchool/college/university300 m5 Very good20 Feb 2026
Al-Miski Lounge B43 6DPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good5 Apr 2023
Cross Lane Convenience JSD B43 6LNRetailers - other300 m5 Very good27 Aug 2019
Aldi Stores Limited B43 6NRRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets340 m5 Very good4 Dec 2017
Abhi Meat Centre B42 1TNOther catering premises340 m4 Good16 Sep 2026
Drinks Cabinet B42 1TNRetailers - other360 m4 Good2 Dec 2011

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.

35 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences23
Vehicle crime4
Other theft4
Public order2
Anti-social behaviour1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Readers Walk (10); On or near St Margaret'S Road (10); On or near Carter Road (4); On or near Galton Drive (4); On or near Low Avenue (3).

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.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 2 slight. 1 involved a cyclist. 50% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202300
202410
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
17 May 2025 17:50 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
23 Mar 2024 02:07 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on

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 A34 between A4041 and M6, with 36,482 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 200 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A34 A4041 to M6 36,350 estimated; counted 2022 3% +3% since 2014 200 m
A34 A4041 to M6 36,482 estimated 3% 200 m
A4041 A34 to LA Boundary 35,183 estimated; counted 2022 2% +52% since 2015 260 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 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,081 residents in 397 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 age4340
Children under 1517%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)86%61%
Owned outright45%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented6%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work61%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van60%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)32%34%
No qualifications17%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)91%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

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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.

  • B43 6JJ: 23 addresses of 24 in the postcode
  • B43 6JH: 11 addresses
  • B43 6PD: 1 address of 24 in the postcode
  • B43 6PP: 1 address of 12 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Galton Drive · Beechwood Road · Orchard Way · George Road · Sundial Lane · Low Avenue · Readers Walk · St Margaret's Road · Scott Road · Beacon Close · Willow Road · Carter Road

All the streets in B43 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.