Property market
The five-year median is £485,000 from 5 recorded sales in B68 0EW. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Sandwell is £205,743 in June 2026, up 0.6% year on year.
B68 0EW
Old Warley · Sandwell · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B68 0EW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B68
- Postcode sector
- B68 0
- Latitude
- 52.467957
- Longitude
- -1.991928
- British National Grid easting
- 400,645
- British National Grid northing
- 285,556
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Sandwell · E08000028
- Electoral ward
- Old Warley · E05016622
- Parish or community
- E43000182
- Westminster constituency
- Smethwick · E14001478
- Output area
- E00050715
- Lower layer super output area
- Sandwell 036D · E01010027
- Middle layer super output area
- Sandwell 036 · E02002078
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore B68
Property
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Castle Road West, Oldbury, B68 0EW | 14 January 2026 | £235,000 |
| 8a, Castle Road West, Oldbury, B68 0EW | 9 October 2024 | £643,000 |
| 2, Castle Road West, Oldbury, B68 0EW | 8 December 2023 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 140
- Primary
- 86
- Secondary
- 25
- 151 m
Lightwoods Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 966 m
Brandhall Primary School
Community school
- 971 m
Bleakhouse Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,248
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,395
- Vehicle crime 334
- Shoplifting 301
- Other theft 239
- Criminal damage and arson 234
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 42
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- B68 0 residents
- 9,779
24 female, 18 male
Age bands in B68 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 19%
1,929 residents
1,115 residents
2,590 residents
2,646 residents
1,936 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B68 0 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
46
within 5 km
RIDGACRE HOUSE SURGERY
83 RIDGACRE ROAD, QUINTON, BIRMINGHAM, B32 2TJ
ODS code M85172
792 m
WARLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
AMBROSE HOUSE, KINGSWAY, OLDBURY, B68 0RT
ODS code M88003
1.0 km
HILL TOP MEDICAL CENTRE
15 HILL TOP ROAD, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9DU
ODS code M88645
1.2 km
BEARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
176 MILCOTE ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B67 5BP
ODS code M88042
1.6 km
LAPAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
95 GOODREST AVENUE, HALESOWEN, B62 0HP
ODS code M87014
1.9 km
BEARWOOD ROAD SURGERY
348 BEARWOOD ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B66 4ES
ODS code M88019
2.2 km
SHERWOOD HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
9 SANDON ROAD, EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM, B17 8DP
ODS code M88020
2.3 km
LORDSWOOD HOUSE GROUP MEDICAL PRACTICE
54 LORDSWOOD ROAD, HARBORNE, BIRMINGHAM, B17 9DB
ODS code M85028
2.3 km
CAUSEWAY GREEN ROAD SURGERY
158 CAUSEWAY GREEN ROAD, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 8LJ
ODS code M88620
2.4 km
DOG KENNEL LANE SURGERY
64 DOG KENNEL LANE, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9LZ
ODS code M88635
2.4 km
FELDON LANE PRACTICE
FELDON LANE, HALESOWEN, B62 9DR
ODS code M87020
2.5 km
WARLEY ROAD SURGERY
118 WARLEY ROAD, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9SZ
ODS code M88640
2.5 km
CITY HEALTH CENTRE
449 CITY ROAD, EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM, B17 8LG
ODS code M85711
2.5 km
WOODGATE VALLEY HEALTH CENTRE
61 STEVENS AVENUE, WOODGATE, BIRMINGHAM, B32 3SD
ODS code M85035
2.8 km
CLEMENT ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
4A CLEMENT ROAD, HALESOWEN, B62 9LR
ODS code M87034
2.9 km
SAREPHED MEDICAL CENTRE
ARDEN ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B67 6AJ
ODS code M88610
2.9 km
ROOD END MEDICAL PRACTICE
182-184 VICARAGE ROAD, OLDBURY, B68 8JB
ODS code M88647
3.0 km
NORVIC FAMILY PRACTICE
5 SUFFRAGE STREET, SMETHWICK, B66 3PZ
ODS code M88009
3.2 km
HARBORNE MEDICAL PRACTICE
4 YORK STREET, HARBORNE, BIRMINGHAM, B17 0HG
ODS code M85058
3.3 km
THE SMETHWICK MEDICAL CENTRE
REGENT STREET, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B66 3BQ
ODS code M88002
3.4 km
Showing 20 of 46 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Castle Road West
BCT · Warley Woods
- 0.1 miles
Wolverhampton Road
BCT · Warley Woods
- 0.1 miles
Wolverhampton Road
BCT · Warley Woods
- 0.1 miles
Castle Road West
BCT · Warley Woods
- 0.1 miles
Stanley Road
BCT · Brandhall
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sandwell 036D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,057 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
140 open schools are in scope, including 86 primary and 25 secondary schools. Lightwoods Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 151 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,248 published events cover 12 months, averaging 270.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,395 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.