Warwick Close Oldbury, Sandwell

63 addresses across 1 postcode (B68), about 160 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 33651300.

  • Sales: 29 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £195,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 47 homes have an energy certificate (C: 25, D: 21, 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.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; 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 Langley Green, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Barnford Hill Park, is about 280 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.8 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 189 to 197 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 11 of its 63 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hill Top Medical Centre, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 280 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 55% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 60 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.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£195,000£195,000£195,000
20241£115,000£115,000£115,000
20231£170,000£170,000£170,000
20222£163,750£105,000£222,500
20211£73,000£73,000£73,000
20181£145,000£145,000£145,000
20171£127,000£127,000£127,000
20164£106,250£85,000£126,000
20141£108,000£108,000£108,000
20101£119,950£119,950£119,950
20091£97,500£97,500£97,500
20081£86,000£86,000£86,000
Most recent sales (29)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Jan 202512 B68 8NHTerraced£195,000
16 Dec 202417 B68 8NHFlat or maisonette£115,000Leasehold.
18 Jan 202348 B68 8NHTerraced£170,000
1 Jun 202234 B68 8NHFlat or maisonette£105,000Leasehold.
26 Apr 202218 B68 8NHTerraced£222,500
11 Jan 202242 B68 8NHFlat or maisonette£95,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Nov 202151 B68 8NHFlat or maisonette£73,000Leasehold.
28 May 202130 B68 8NHFlat or maisonette£115,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Aug 20184 B68 8NHTerraced£145,000
7 Jul 201744 B68 8NHTerraced£127,000
6 Jun 201620 B68 8NHTerraced£117,000
2 Jun 201659 B68 8NHTerraced£95,500
31 Mar 201659 B68 8NHTerraced£85,000
30 Mar 201612 B68 8NHTerraced£126,000
17 Oct 201414 B68 8NHTerraced£108,000
8 Jun 201048 B68 8NHTerraced£119,950
27 Jul 200920 B68 8NHTerraced£97,500
4 Jan 200830 B68 8NHFlat or maisonette£86,000Leasehold.
9 Nov 200734 B68 8NHFlat or maisonette£84,950Leasehold.
16 Dec 200518 B68 8NHTerraced£133,000
9 May 200551 B68 8NHFlat or maisonette£44,000Leasehold.
9 Jul 200434 B68 8NHFlat or maisonette£59,950Leasehold.
19 Mar 200418 B68 8NHTerraced£115,000
2 May 20038 B68 8NHTerraced£85,000
7 Apr 200310 B68 8NHTerraced£79,000
24 May 200248 B68 8NHTerraced£59,950
8 Oct 200130 B68 8NHFlat or maisonette£32,000Leasehold.
6 Apr 200146 B68 8NHTerraced£62,000
9 Nov 199859 B68 8NHTerraced£15,200

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 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

47 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 49 m². Most common: Flat (31); House, end-terrace (7); House, mid-terrace (6). Built: 1976-1982 (21); 1983-1990 (15); 1967-1975 (11). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (31); rented (social) (11); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

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 B (40% of about 770 homes).

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

Planning and heritage

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

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

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

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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 4 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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 63 addresses are between 189 m and 197 m above sea level (193 m on average); the ground rises about 8 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
B68 8NH100%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 stationsLangley Green 161,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Rowley Regis 1.0 million journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Smethwick Galton Bridge 698,000 journeys in 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 52 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bristnall Fields40 m
Bus or coach stationWest Bromwich Bus Station4.2 km (2.6 miles)
Car parksBarker Street Car Park1.7 km (1.1 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea660 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX17.7 km (11 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hill Top Medical Centre510 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies7 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hills Pharmacy510 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Brandhall Dental Surgery90 m
HospitalRowley Regis Hospital3.2 km (2 miles)
Police stationSmethwick Police Station3 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM70 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Barnford Hill Park 11 ha280 m
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,520 m²700 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.2 ha470 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Brandhall Road Allotments 9,340 m²130 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Warley Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.7 km (1 mile) south-east.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Warley ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1 mile) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Titford PoolLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-west
Warley WoodsWood1.5 km (1 mile) south-east
Thimblemill PoolLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Mucklow HillHill2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-west
Bromford StopIsland3.1 km (1.9 miles) north
Woodgate ValleyValley3.7 km (2.3 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)12.84010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.7205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

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 59110
Under 555263

11 of the street's 63 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), 1 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
Oldbury AcademySecondary11–16320 m Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Our Lady and St Hubert's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary5–11510 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Moat Farm Junior SchoolPrimary7–11600 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Moat Farm Infant SchoolPrimary2–7600 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bleakhouse Primary SchoolPrimary4–11630 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Q3 Academy Langley ChristianSecondary11–16680 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Brandhall Primary SchoolPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Bristnall Hall AcademySecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Causeway Green Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Perryfields AcademySecondary11–161.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Annie Lennard Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 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
Langley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Loaf B68 8NQTakeaway/sandwich shop70 m5 Very good7 Dec 2023
Costcutter B68 8NQRetailers - other80 m4 Good18 Jul 2024
Royale Liquors B68 8NQRetailers - other80 m4 Good18 Jul 2019
The Plough B68 9LHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good14 Nov 2016
Neptune Fish Bar B68 9LHTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good11 Jul 2024
Dan’s Den B68 9LHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen190 m5 Very good15 Jul 2026
Shun Fa Chinese Takeaway B68 9LHTakeaway/sandwich shop200 mAwaiting inspection
Conway House B68 9LHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m5 Very good8 Sep 2025
Impact Food Group @ Q3 Academy Langley B68 8EDSchool/college/university390 mAwaiting inspection
Barnford View B68 8EFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good26 Apr 2023
MFG Londis Brandhall B68 8DDRetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good15 Feb 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.

60 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences26
Vehicle crime9
Public order6
Burglary4
Other theft3
Drugs3
Anti-social behaviour2
Possession of weapons2
Bicycle theft1
Criminal damage and arson1
Other crime1
Robbery1
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Hanover Gardens (16); On or near Meadow Road (12); On or near Warwick Close (10); On or near Hancox Street (8); On or near Brandhall Road (6).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 281 residents in 131 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 age5140
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over28%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)55%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented30%17%
Private rented14%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)30%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van52%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle9%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)83%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 4 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.

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.

  • B68 8NH: 63 addresses of 64 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Merton Close · Brandhall Road · Pound Road · Hancox Street · Hanover Gardens · Meadow Road · Shire Close · George Road · The Constables · St Katherine's Road · Park Avenue · Silverlands Avenue

All the streets in B68 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.
  • 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.