Schools
133 open schools are in scope, including 91 primary and 24 secondary schools. Sandwell Valley School is the nearest published school at 89 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B70 6RA
West Bromwich Central · Sandwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- West Bromwich
- Postcode district
- B70
- Postcode sector
- B70 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B70 6RA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B70
- Postcode sector
- B70 6
- Latitude
- 52.511000
- Longitude
- -1.978129
- British National Grid easting
- 401,581
- British National Grid northing
- 290,344
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Sandwell · E08000028
- Electoral ward
- West Bromwich Central · E05016632
- Parish or community
- E43000182
- Westminster constituency
- West Bromwich · E14001574
- Output area
- E00051076
- Lower layer super output area
- Sandwell 020B · E01010101
- 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
- 133
- Primary
- 91
- Secondary
- 24
- 89 m
Sandwell Valley School
Other independent school
- 664 m
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 749 m
Sandwell Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,745
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,594
- Shoplifting 346
- Vehicle crime 279
- Public order 257
- Drugs 254
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B70 6 residents
- 7,672
Age bands in B70 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.7%
1,370 residents
971 residents
2,191 residents
1,760 residents
1,084 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.
GP practices
53
within 5 km straight-line
DR UI HAQUE N
6 HIGH STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 6JX
ODS code M88626
467 m
ST PAULS PARTNERS
6 HIGH STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 6JX
ODS code M88639
467 m
HAWTHORNS MEDICAL CENTRE
94 LEWISHAM ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B66 2DD
ODS code M88041
1.3 km
LODGE ROAD SURGERY
LODGE ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B67 7LU
ODS code M88633
1.3 km
ST PAUL'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
222 ST. PAULS ROAD, SMETHWICK, B66 1HB
ODS code M88040
1.3 km
DR ARORA RK
FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88619
1.5 km
DR DEWAN VK
FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88646
1.5 km
LINKWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
LYNG CENTRE FOR HEALTH, FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88038
1.5 km
ST PAUL'S PARTNERSHIP - LYNG MEDICAL
FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88625
1.5 km
DR SINGH M
1 CAMBRIDGE STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 8HQ
ODS code M88628
1.7 km
THE SMETHWICK MEDICAL CENTRE
REGENT STREET, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B66 3BQ
ODS code M88002
1.9 km
HOLYHEAD PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTRE
1 ST JAMES'S ROAD, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, B21 0HL
ODS code M85721
2.1 km
SAREPHED MEDICAL CENTRE
ARDEN ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B67 6AJ
ODS code M88610
2.4 km
ROOD END MEDICAL PRACTICE
182-184 VICARAGE ROAD, OLDBURY, B68 8JB
ODS code M88647
2.4 km
WARLEY ROAD SURGERY
118 WARLEY ROAD, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9SZ
ODS code M88640
2.5 km
HANDSWORTH MEDICAL PRACT.
4 TRAFALGAR ROAD, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, B21 9NH
ODS code M85082
2.6 km
OLDBURY HEALTH CENTRE
ALBERT STREET, OLDBURY, B69 4DE
ODS code M88018
2.6 km
DOG KENNEL LANE SURGERY
64 DOG KENNEL LANE, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9LZ
ODS code M88635
2.6 km
NORVIC FAMILY PRACTICE
5 SUFFRAGE STREET, SMETHWICK, B66 3PZ
ODS code M88009
2.7 km
CAPE HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
RAGLAN ROAD, SMETHWICK, B66 3NR
ODS code M88006
3.0 km
Showing 20 of 53 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Beeches Road
BCT · West Bromwich
- 0.1 miles
Beeches Road
BCT · West Bromwich
- 0.2 miles
Roebuck Lane
BCT · West Bromwich
- 0.2 miles
Bagnall Street
BCT · West Bromwich
- 0.2 miles
Kenrick Park (West Midlands Metro)
TMU · West Bromwich
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sandwell 020B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,551 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
Recorded crime
3,745 published events cover 12 months, averaging 312.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,594 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.