Old Oak Close Aldridge, Walsall

36 addresses across 2 postcodes (WS9), about 200 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41903177.

  • Sales: 77 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £326,500 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Walsall cost £216,878 in August 2026 (+2.6% on a year); private rents averaged £930 a month.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 15, E: 1).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; 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 Blake Street, about 4.8 km (3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 390 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 9.5 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 166 to 170 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 36 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Portland Medical Practice, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 500 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 28% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 21 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; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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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
20242£326,500£310,000£343,000
20232£358,500£352,000£365,000
20221£340,000£340,000£340,000
20201£285,000£285,000£285,000
20192£365,000£285,000£445,000
20182£265,750£254,500£277,000
20162£244,975£210,000£279,950
20142£226,998£204,000£249,995
20131£205,000£205,000£205,000
20111£163,000£163,000£163,000
20103£205,500£185,000£206,000
20091£180,000£180,000£180,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 77)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Dec 202421 WS9 8SESemi-detached£310,000
26 Jun 202433 WS9 8SEDetached£343,000
27 Sep 202334 WS9 8SEDetached£365,000
31 Mar 202329 WS9 8SEDetached£352,000
15 Aug 20222 WS9 8SEDetached£340,000
15 May 202034 WS9 8SEDetached£285,000
19 Aug 201935 WS9 8SEDetached£445,000
8 Mar 201923 WS9 8SEDetached£285,000
10 May 201829 WS9 8SEDetached£254,500
7 Mar 201822 WS9 8SEDetached£277,000
11 Nov 201620 WS9 8SEDetached£279,950
30 Jun 201610 WS9 8SETerraced£210,000
20 Oct 20147 WS9 8SESemi-detached£204,000
15 Aug 201416 WS9 8SEDetached£249,995
6 Dec 201322 WS9 8SEDetached£205,000
29 Jul 201134 WS9 8SEDetached£163,000
12 Nov 201025 WS9 8SEDetached£206,000
12 Mar 201027 WS9 8SETerraced£185,000
28 Jan 201021 WS9 8SESemi-detached£205,500
15 Dec 200932 WS9 8SEDetached£180,000
25 Sep 20072 WS9 8SEDetached£230,000
28 Feb 20074 WS9 8SEDetached£217,000
16 Nov 20067 WS9 8SESemi-detached£235,000
27 Oct 200619 WS9 8SESemi-detached£217,500
31 Oct 20057 WS9 8SESemi-detached£219,000
26 May 200532 WS9 8SEDetached£228,000
26 Aug 200410 WS9 8SETerraced£190,000
30 Jun 200426 WS9 8SEDetached£249,950
16 Jan 20044 WS9 8SEDetached£175,000
25 Apr 200321 WS9 8SESemi-detached£173,000
27 Mar 200329 WS9 8SEDetached£12,500
6 Dec 200233 WS9 8SEDetached£164,000
30 Nov 200116 WS9 8SESemi-detached£117,500
8 Nov 200118 WS9 8SEDetached£115,000
20 Apr 200114 WS9 8SEDetached£107,000
26 Mar 200120 WS9 8SEDetached£123,000
26 Feb 200134 WS9 8SEDetached£120,000
12 May 200019 WS9 8SESemi-detached£104,950
17 Dec 199936 WS9 8SEDetached£102,500
16 Jul 199932 WS9 8SEDetached£98,000
25 Mar 199916 WS9 8SESemi-detached£94,000
30 Oct 199833 WS9 8SEDetached£95,000
3 Apr 199825 WS9 8SEDetached£90,750
27 Jun 19975 WS9 8SESemi-detached£95,000
7 May 199728 WS9 8SESemi-detached£87,000
28 Jun 199634 WS9 8SEDetached£83,200New build.
31 May 199621 WS9 8SESemi-detached£79,950New build.
31 May 199629 WS9 8SEDetached£79,500New build.
24 May 19962 WS9 8SEDetached£82,950New build.
17 May 199614 WS9 8SEDetached£79,950New build.

House prices and rents in Walsall

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

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

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

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

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

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from July 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 76 m². Most common: House, detached (17); House, semi-detached (1). Built: 1991-1995 (7); 1996-2002 (6); 1983-1990 (4). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (11); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (18 addresses)

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band C (36% of about 1,370 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 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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

1 energy project near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Highfields South Landfill Gas Walsall 12/0926/FL Landfill Gas 1 MW Operational Sep 2012 1.9 km (1.2 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 7 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
WS9 8SEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 4 unlikely
WS9 8HUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 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

2 of the street's 2 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.

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 166 m and 170 m above sea level (168 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
WS9 8HU100%100%100%0%
WS9 8SE100%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 stationsBlake Street 345,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Walsall 1.2 million journeys in 2024–255.6 km (3.5 miles)
Butlers Lane 194,000 journeys in 2024–255.7 km (3.5 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Aldwych Close Druids Heath180 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station5.4 km (3.3 miles)
Car parksAldridge Centre Car Park860 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station950 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX20.9 km (13 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 Portland Medical Practice Good Aug 20261.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lazy Hill Pharmacy540 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rodericks Dental LTD760 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalSpire Little Aston Hospital Good Oct 20263 km (1.9 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Richmond Hall Care Home Good Jul 2026480 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationAldridge Police Station910 m (0.6 miles)
Cash machinesSelect & Save Cashzone1.8 km (1.1 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 Unnamed 4.0 ha390 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 840 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.6 ha720 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsBeech Tree Road Allotments 4,550 m²1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 4.0 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary the Virgin, a listed building (Grade II*), 840 m (0.5 miles) south. 8 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Mary the VirginListed building, Grade II*840 m (0.5 miles) south
Hillfort known as The Castle Fort at Castlebank PlantationScheduled monument1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Leigh's WoodWood340 m west
Castlebank PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north
The SwagLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Branton HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) south-east
Grove HillHill2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
The DingleValley2.7 km (1.7 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)13.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)9.5205
Particles (PM10)14.64015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 5920
Under 553336

3 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 Walsall: see them on the Walsall page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 4 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Leighswood SchoolPrimary2–11190 m 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
Cooper and Jordan Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–11920 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Mary of the Angels Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Francis of Assisi Catholic College Roman CatholicSecondary11–181.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Castlefort AcademyPrimary3–111.7 km (1 mile) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Aldridge School - A Science CollegeSecondary11–181.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
Whetstone Field Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
St John's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

Nurseries and childcare

7 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 430 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Aldridge Premier Tuition Limited WS9 8RW Childcare on non-domestic premises (over fives) Not inspected yet 430 m (0.3 miles)
Angels Day Nursery WS9 8HB Full day care 37 Not inspected yet 550 m (0.3 miles)
The Aldridge Nursery WS9 8TH Full day care 80 Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 670 m (0.4 miles)
Kip McGrath Education Centre Aldridge WS9 8LZ Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 740 m (0.5 miles)
Cooper & Jordan Kids Club WS9 8NH Out-of-school day care 60 Not inspected yet 870 m (0.5 miles)
Adventureland Day Nursery WS9 9AA Full day care 58 Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
The Old School House Nursery Aldridge WS9 0BL Full day care 55 Not inspected yet 1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Ofsted also registers 68 childminders and 27 home childcarers (nannies) in Walsall. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

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

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Slimming World Franchise WS9 8RNRetailers - other70 m5 Very good28 Sep 2025
Leighswood Infant School WS9 8HZSchool/college/university190 m5 Very good23 Mar 2026
Spar WS9 8BDRetailers - other370 m5 Very good20 Aug 2026
Angels Day Nursery WS9 8HBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good18 Jun 2026
The Hop Station WS9 8HBPub/bar/nightclub440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Mar 2025
Reesra Cards & Gifts & Post Office WS9 8RWRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good18 Jun 2026
Gems Bake Shed WS9 8AUOther catering premises440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jun 2026
Wilsons Tea Room WS9 8RWRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 Aug 2026
Aldridge Youth Theatre WS9 8NQRetailers - other460 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Richmond Hall Care Home WS9 8JZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good17 Sep 2025
Druids Heath Golf Club WS9 8JZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Aug 2026
Sodexo Government Services WS9 8JZHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good15 Oct 2025
Co-op WS9 8HARetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Mar 2020
Westwood's Kitchen WS9 8HBOther catering premises490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good28 Sep 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

21 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences12
Burglary5
Vehicle crime2
Other theft1
Criminal damage and arson1

Most of these are attached to: On or near The Glades (7); On or near Broad Meadow (6); On or near Old Oak Close (3); On or near Walsall Wood Road (3); On or near Aldwych Close (1).

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, 0 serious and 1 slight. 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
202100
202200
202310
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
11 Nov 2023 20:30 Slight 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

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

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

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 497 residents in 230 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 age5340
Children under 1515%17%
Aged 65 and over33%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright55%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented7%17%
Private rented15%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work46%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)39%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van62%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus6%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)58%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)28%34%
No qualifications25%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 8 to 9 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band D, house, detached (lodged 20 October 2026) found 2 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Westwood's Kitchen (other catering premises, WS9 8HB) re-inspected, still 5 Very good (rated 28 September 2026) found 30 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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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.

  • WS9 8SE: 35 addresses of 37 in the postcode
  • WS9 8HU: 1 address of 30 in the postcode

Nearby streets

The Glades · Norfolk Crescent · Stonnall Gate · Suffolk Grove · Aldwych Close · Pavillion Close · Broad Meadow · Walmer Meadow · Garden Croft · Wellfield Road · Mountford Crescent · Noddy Park

All the streets in WS9 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.