Property market
The five-year median is £215,000 from 4 recorded sales in B68 9HE. 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 9HE
Old Warley · Sandwell · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B68 9HE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B68
- Postcode sector
- B68 9
- Latitude
- 52.473612
- Longitude
- -1.990528
- British National Grid easting
- 400,740
- British National Grid northing
- 286,185
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
- E00050705
- 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
25 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Pottery House, 127, Pottery Road, Oldbury, B68 9HE | 20 June 2023 | £190,000 |
| 141, Pottery Road, Oldbury, B68 9HE | 17 March 2023 | £240,000 |
| 119, Pottery Road, Oldbury, B68 9HE | 1 March 2023 | £100,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 145
- Primary
- 89
- Secondary
- 24
- 608 m
Bleakhouse Primary School
Community school
- 612 m
Lightwoods Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 756 m
Abbey Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,881
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,630
- Shoplifting 439
- Vehicle crime 343
- Other theft 308
- Criminal damage and arson 264
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 26
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- B68 9 residents
- 12,862
13 female, 13 male
Age bands in B68 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.9%
2,349 residents
1,464 residents
3,042 residents
3,127 residents
1,894 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B68 9 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+
- 95.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 95.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 95.5%
- 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
51
within 5 km
HILL TOP MEDICAL CENTRE
15 HILL TOP ROAD, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9DU
ODS code M88645
752 m
BEARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
176 MILCOTE ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B67 5BP
ODS code M88042
1.2 km
WARLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
AMBROSE HOUSE, KINGSWAY, OLDBURY, B68 0RT
ODS code M88003
1.3 km
RIDGACRE HOUSE SURGERY
83 RIDGACRE ROAD, QUINTON, BIRMINGHAM, B32 2TJ
ODS code M85172
1.4 km
BEARWOOD ROAD SURGERY
348 BEARWOOD ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B66 4ES
ODS code M88019
1.7 km
DOG KENNEL LANE SURGERY
64 DOG KENNEL LANE, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9LZ
ODS code M88635
1.8 km
WARLEY ROAD SURGERY
118 WARLEY ROAD, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9SZ
ODS code M88640
1.9 km
CAUSEWAY GREEN ROAD SURGERY
158 CAUSEWAY GREEN ROAD, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 8LJ
ODS code M88620
2.0 km
SHERWOOD HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
9 SANDON ROAD, EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM, B17 8DP
ODS code M88020
2.1 km
CITY HEALTH CENTRE
449 CITY ROAD, EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM, B17 8LG
ODS code M85711
2.2 km
SAREPHED MEDICAL CENTRE
ARDEN ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B67 6AJ
ODS code M88610
2.3 km
ROOD END MEDICAL PRACTICE
182-184 VICARAGE ROAD, OLDBURY, B68 8JB
ODS code M88647
2.4 km
LAPAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
95 GOODREST AVENUE, HALESOWEN, B62 0HP
ODS code M87014
2.4 km
LORDSWOOD HOUSE GROUP MEDICAL PRACTICE
54 LORDSWOOD ROAD, HARBORNE, BIRMINGHAM, B17 9DB
ODS code M85028
2.6 km
FELDON LANE PRACTICE
FELDON LANE, HALESOWEN, B62 9DR
ODS code M87020
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
CLEMENT ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
4A CLEMENT ROAD, HALESOWEN, B62 9LR
ODS code M87034
2.9 km
LODGE ROAD SURGERY
LODGE ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B67 7LU
ODS code M88633
2.9 km
CAPE HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
RAGLAN ROAD, SMETHWICK, B66 3NR
ODS code M88006
3.0 km
Showing 20 of 51 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
- 0.1 miles
St Hilda's Church
BCT · Warley
- 0.1 miles
Abbey Road
BCT · Warley
- 0.1 miles
Abbey Crescent
BCT · Warley
- 0.1 miles
Harborne Road
BCT · Warley
- 0.1 miles
Harborne Road
BCT · Warley
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
145 open schools are in scope, including 89 primary and 24 secondary schools. Bleakhouse Primary School is the nearest published school at 608 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,881 published events cover 12 months, averaging 323.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,630 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.