Ryecroft Street Walsall

7 addresses across 4 postcodes (WS2), about 110 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 41901426.

  • Flood: 6 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • 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 86% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Walsall, about 810 m (0.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Leckie Wildlife Park, is about 360 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 128 to 129 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 7 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is St Peter's Surgery, about 320 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,220 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 48% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 218 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

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.

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

No certificates found for addresses on this street.

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 A (74% of about 2,810 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 3 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.

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, 6 at medium risk and 6 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
WS2 8EBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WS2 8AFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 4 / 1 unlikely
WS2 8DUnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 4 unlikely
WS2 8SPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely

Sources: 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 7 addresses are between 128 m and 129 m above sea level (129 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
WS2 8AF100%100%100%0%
WS2 8DU100%86%86%0%
WS2 8EB100%100%100%0%
WS2 8SP100%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 stationsWalsall 1.2 million journeys in 2024–25810 m (0.5 miles)
Bescot Stadium 155,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bloxwich 114,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 53 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Ryecroft Street Birchills50 m
Bus or coach stationWalsall Bus Station700 m (0.4 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Morrisons Car Park - Walsall780 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station850 m (0.5 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX22.2 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. 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 St Peter's Surgery320 m
Pharmacies13 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Well320 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ws4 Dental Care810 m (0.5 miles)
HospitalWalsall Diabetes Centre (Manor Hospital)1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationWest Midlands Police370 m
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM670 m (0.4 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 garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Leckie Wildlife Park 1.1 ha360 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)The Grange 62 ha750 m (0.5 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,480 m²240 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 9,470 m²300 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.4 ha1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 64 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Walsall Arboretum, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1 km (0.6 miles) east. 52 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Walsall ArboretumRegistered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) east
Walsall Memorial GardenRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Hlaew 12m north west of Rushall HallScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) east
Medieval fortified house at Rushall HallScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Hatherton LakeLake or reservoir860 m (0.5 miles) east
Lady PoolLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) north-east
Pouk HillHill1.9 km (1.2 miles) west
Park PitsLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Rough WoodWood3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-west
The DingleValley3.9 km (2.4 miles) east

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)15.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.2205
Particles (PM10)13.34015

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
65 to 6950
55 to 5910
Under 5517

6 of the street's 7 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), 3 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
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School, Walsall Roman CatholicPrimary3–11230 m Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Needs attention; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met
Croft AcademyPrimary2–11330 m No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Walsall College16 plus16–99350 m No published inspection
Butts Primary SchoolPrimary3–11560 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Birchills Church of England Community AcademyPrimary3–11570 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
North Walsall Primary AcademyPrimary3–11640 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Queen Mary's High SchoolSecondary11–18680 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Post-16 provision: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Walsall Studio SchoolSecondary14–191.1 km (0.7 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
Reedswood E-ACT AcademyPrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Exceptional; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Exceptional; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Exceptional; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Blue Coat Church of England AcademySecondary11–181.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Chuckery Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.4 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Blue Coat Church of England Aided Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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
Domino's Pizza WS2 8EATakeaway/sandwich shop10 m5 Very good26 Jun 2025
Addy's Shawarma and Bunz WS2 8EATakeaway/sandwich shop40 m4 Good17 Mar 2026
Precious and Glorious Food Ltd WS2 8AFRetailers - other40 m4 Good3 Mar 2026
The Pretty Bricks WS2 8AFPub/bar/nightclub40 mAwaiting inspection
SM Butchers WS2 8DURetailers - other50 m1 Major improvement necessary14 Sep 2026
The Pretty Bricks WS2 8AFPub/bar/nightclub50 m5 Very good17 Mar 2026
Kurdistan Mini Store WS2 8DURetailers - other50 m2 Improvement necessary19 Feb 2025
Chicken Palace Royale and Burger Bite WS2 8DURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Lee Garden WS2 8DUTakeaway/sandwich shop60 m5 Very good18 Jun 2026
The Seven Stars PH WS2 8DUPub/bar/nightclub60 m5 Very good17 Jan 2023
Stafford Foods WS2 8DURetailers - other60 m2 Improvement necessary21 Feb 2024
Stafford Lifestyle Express Ltd WS2 8DURetailers - other60 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Mar 2025
Ruth's Mini Market WS2 8EARetailers - other60 m4 Good21 Feb 2024
Shake & Grill WS2 8EAOther catering premises80 m3 Generally satisfactory22 May 2025
Nilshan Convenient Store WS2 8DURetailers - other80 m3 Generally satisfactory9 May 2024

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.

218 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences92
Criminal damage and arson22
Vehicle crime21
Burglary19
Drugs17
Other theft13
Public order9
Robbery6
Anti-social behaviour6
Other crime5
Possession of weapons5
Theft from the person3

Most of these are attached to: On or near B4210 (63); On or near Penkridge Close (31); On or near Penkridge Street (21); On or near Marlow Street (19); On or near Ryecroft Street (17).

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: 1,218 residents in 408 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3140
Children under 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)48%61%
Owned outright26%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented28%17%
Private rented25%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work47%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)13%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van56%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus12%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)70%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications35%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)76%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all10%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 2 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

  • Food hygiene ratings Great Donner Kebab (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WS2 8DG) newly listed: Awaiting inspection found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings The MindKind Projects (retailers - other, WS2 8AP) now 4 Good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 21 September 2026) found 30 October 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings SM Butchers (retailers - other, WS2 8DU) now 1 Major improvement necessary, was 3 Generally satisfactory (rated 14 September 2026) found 30 October 2026

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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.

  • WS2 8EB: 4 addresses
  • WS2 8AF: 1 address of 19 in the postcode
  • WS2 8DU: 1 address of 43 in the postcode
  • WS2 8SP: 1 address of 22 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ryecroft Park · John Street · Whitehouse Street · Hall Street · Short Acre Street · Marlow Street · Mill Street · Croft Street · Penkridge Street · Long Acre Street · Portland Street · Penkridge Close

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.
  • 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.