Schools
123 open schools are in scope, including 86 primary and 21 secondary schools. Sandwell College is the nearest published school at 316 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B70 1BR
Greets Green & Lyng · Sandwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Greets Green & Lyng
- Local authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- West Bromwich
- Postcode district
- B70
- Postcode sector
- B70 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B70 1BR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 November 2006
- Terminated
- 1 January 2009
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B70
- Postcode sector
- B70 1
- Latitude
- 52.515056
- Longitude
- -1.996252
- British National Grid easting
- 400,351
- British National Grid northing
- 290,795
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Sandwell · E08000028
- Electoral ward
- Greets Green & Lyng · E05016617
- Parish or community
- E43000182
- Westminster constituency
- West Bromwich · E14001574
- Output area
- E00050518
- Lower layer super output area
- Sandwell 020A · E01009988
- Middle layer super output area
- Sandwell 020 · E02002062
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 B70
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 123
- Primary
- 86
- Secondary
- 21
- 316 m
Sandwell College
Further education
- 421 m
Lyng Primary School
Community school
- 577 m
Lodge Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,325
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,347
- Public order 448
- Shoplifting 445
- Criminal damage and arson 391
- Vehicle crime 383
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B70 1 residents
- 1
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.
GP practices
48
within 5 km
DR ARORA RK
FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88619
159 m
DR DEWAN VK
FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88646
159 m
LINKWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
LYNG CENTRE FOR HEALTH, FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88038
159 m
ST PAUL'S PARTNERSHIP - LYNG MEDICAL
FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88625
159 m
DR SINGH M
1 CAMBRIDGE STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 8HQ
ODS code M88628
394 m
DR UI HAQUE N
6 HIGH STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 6JX
ODS code M88626
845 m
ST PAULS PARTNERS
6 HIGH STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 6JX
ODS code M88639
845 m
ST PAUL'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
222 ST. PAULS ROAD, SMETHWICK, B66 1HB
ODS code M88040
1.7 km
OLDBURY HEALTH CENTRE
ALBERT STREET, OLDBURY, B69 4DE
ODS code M88018
1.7 km
LODGE ROAD SURGERY
LODGE ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B67 7LU
ODS code M88633
1.9 km
ROOD END MEDICAL PRACTICE
182-184 VICARAGE ROAD, OLDBURY, B68 8JB
ODS code M88647
2.3 km
HAWTHORNS MEDICAL CENTRE
94 LEWISHAM ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B66 2DD
ODS code M88041
2.5 km
GREAT BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE
18 THE GREAT BRIDGE CENTRE, CHARLES STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0BF
ODS code Y02701
2.6 km
DR GUDI PV & PARTNER
68 HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0PU
ODS code M88014
2.6 km
NEW STREET SURGERY
NEW STREET, HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0HN
ODS code M88035
2.7 km
WARLEY ROAD SURGERY
118 WARLEY ROAD, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9SZ
ODS code M88640
2.8 km
DOG KENNEL LANE SURGERY
64 DOG KENNEL LANE, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9LZ
ODS code M88635
2.8 km
GREAT BRIDGE PSHIP FOR HEALTH
10 SLATER STREET, GREAT BRIDGE, TIPTON, DY4 7EY
ODS code M88616
2.9 km
THE SMETHWICK MEDICAL CENTRE
REGENT STREET, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B66 3BQ
ODS code M88002
2.9 km
PORTWAY FAMILY PRACTICE
PORTWAY LIFESTYLE CENTRE, NEWBURY LANE, OLDBURY, B69 1HE
ODS code M88026
3.0 km
Showing 20 of 48 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
West Bromwich Central (West Midlands Metro)
PLT · West Bromwich
- 0.1 miles
Bowater Street
BCT · Lamberts End
- 0.1 miles
West Bromwich Central (West Midlands Metro)
PLT · West Bromwich
- 0.1 miles
West Bromwich Central (West Midlands Metro)
MET · West Bromwich
- 0.1 miles
West Bromwich Central (West Midlands Metro)
TMU · West Bromwich
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sandwell 020A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,016 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
Recorded crime
5,325 published events cover 12 months, averaging 443.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,347 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.