Property market
The five-year median is £327,820 from 21 recorded sales in B68 9BA. 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 9BA
Bearwood · Sandwell · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B68 9BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B68
- Postcode sector
- B68 9
- Latitude
- 52.474799
- Longitude
- -1.991765
- British National Grid easting
- 400,656
- British National Grid northing
- 286,317
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Sandwell · E08000028
- Electoral ward
- Bearwood · E05016609
- Parish or community
- E43000182
- Westminster constituency
- Smethwick · E14001478
- Output area
- E00050206
- Lower layer super output area
- Sandwell 036A · E01009923
- 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
22 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 26, The Woodlands, Oldbury, B68 9BA | 21 August 2025 | £185,750 |
| 24, The Woodlands, Oldbury, B68 9BA | 5 August 2025 | £200,000 |
| 25, The Woodlands, Oldbury, B68 9BA | 5 August 2025 | £199,900 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 141
- Primary
- 88
- Secondary
- 23
- 491 m
Bleakhouse Primary School
Community school
- 754 m
Lightwoods Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 795 m
Abbey Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,701
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,600
- Shoplifting 365
- Vehicle crime 325
- Other theft 289
- Criminal damage and arson 248
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B68 9 residents
- 12,862
Age bands in B68 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- 2,349 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.3%
- 1,464 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.6%
- 3,042 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- 3,127 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 15.9%
- 1,894 residents
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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
55
within 5 km straight-line
HILL TOP MEDICAL CENTRE
15 HILL TOP ROAD, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9DU
ODS code M88645
599 m
WARLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
AMBROSE HOUSE, KINGSWAY, OLDBURY, B68 0RT
ODS code M88003
1.3 km
BEARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
176 MILCOTE ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B67 5BP
ODS code M88042
1.3 km
RIDGACRE HOUSE SURGERY
83 RIDGACRE ROAD, QUINTON, BIRMINGHAM, B32 2TJ
ODS code M85172
1.5 km
DOG KENNEL LANE SURGERY
64 DOG KENNEL LANE, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9LZ
ODS code M88635
1.7 km
BEARWOOD ROAD SURGERY
348 BEARWOOD ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B66 4ES
ODS code M88019
1.7 km
WARLEY ROAD SURGERY
118 WARLEY ROAD, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9SZ
ODS code M88640
1.7 km
CAUSEWAY GREEN ROAD SURGERY
158 CAUSEWAY GREEN ROAD, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 8LJ
ODS code M88620
1.9 km
SHERWOOD HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
9 SANDON ROAD, EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM, B17 8DP
ODS code M88020
2.2 km
ROOD END MEDICAL PRACTICE
182-184 VICARAGE ROAD, OLDBURY, B68 8JB
ODS code M88647
2.2 km
SAREPHED MEDICAL CENTRE
ARDEN ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B67 6AJ
ODS code M88610
2.3 km
CITY HEALTH CENTRE
449 CITY ROAD, EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM, B17 8LG
ODS code M85711
2.3 km
LAPAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
95 GOODREST AVENUE, HALESOWEN, B62 0HP
ODS code M87014
2.4 km
FELDON LANE PRACTICE
FELDON LANE, HALESOWEN, B62 9DR
ODS code M87020
2.6 km
LORDSWOOD HOUSE GROUP MEDICAL PRACTICE
54 LORDSWOOD ROAD, HARBORNE, BIRMINGHAM, B17 9DB
ODS code M85028
2.7 km
NORVIC FAMILY PRACTICE
5 SUFFRAGE STREET, SMETHWICK, B66 3PZ
ODS code M88009
2.7 km
THE SMETHWICK MEDICAL CENTRE
REGENT STREET, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B66 3BQ
ODS code M88002
2.8 km
LODGE ROAD SURGERY
LODGE ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B67 7LU
ODS code M88633
2.8 km
CLEMENT ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
4A CLEMENT ROAD, HALESOWEN, B62 9LR
ODS code M87034
2.9 km
ST PAUL'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
222 ST. PAULS ROAD, SMETHWICK, B66 1HB
ODS code M88040
2.9 km
Showing 20 of 55 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 74 m
St Hilda's Church
BCT · Warley
- 78 m
Abbey Crescent
BCT · Warley
- 149 m
Telford Close
BCT · Warley
- 163 m
Telford Close
BCT · Warley
- 174 m
Abbey Road
BCT · Warley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sandwell 036A, 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
19,388 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
141 open schools are in scope, including 88 primary and 23 secondary schools. Bleakhouse Primary School is the nearest published school at 491 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,701 published events cover 12 months, averaging 308 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,600 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.