Schools
129 open schools are in scope, including 88 primary and 25 secondary schools. Shireland CBSO Academy is the nearest published school at 60 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B70 8AF
West Bromwich Central · Sandwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- West Bromwich
- Postcode district
- B70
- Postcode sector
- B70 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B70 8AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2014
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B70
- Postcode sector
- B70 8
- Latitude
- 52.523255
- Longitude
- -1.994999
- British National Grid easting
- 400,436
- British National Grid northing
- 291,707
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
- E00051089
- Lower layer super output area
- Sandwell 019D · E01010106
- Middle layer super output area
- Sandwell 019 · E02002061
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 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 129
- Primary
- 88
- Secondary
- 25
- 60 m
Shireland CBSO Academy
Free schools
- 169 m
Hargate Primary School
Community school
- 375 m
Shireland Biomedical Utc
University technical college
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,236
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,357
- Vehicle crime 443
- Shoplifting 410
- Public order 373
- Criminal damage and arson 362
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B70 8 residents
- 5,405
Age bands in B70 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.9%
- 1,149 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 15.5%
- 854 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.4%
- 1,562 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.1%
- 1,217 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 13.1%
- 724 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
44
within 5 km straight-line
DR ARORA RK
FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88619
830 m
DR DEWAN VK
FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88646
830 m
LINKWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
LYNG CENTRE FOR HEALTH, FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88038
830 m
ST PAUL'S PARTNERSHIP - LYNG MEDICAL
FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88625
830 m
DR SINGH M
1 CAMBRIDGE STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 8HQ
ODS code M88628
1.0 km
DR UI HAQUE N
6 HIGH STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 6JX
ODS code M88626
1.4 km
ST PAULS PARTNERS
6 HIGH STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 6JX
ODS code M88639
1.4 km
DR GUDI PV & PARTNER
68 HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0PU
ODS code M88014
1.8 km
NEW STREET SURGERY
NEW STREET, HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0HN
ODS code M88035
1.9 km
GREAT BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE
18 THE GREAT BRIDGE CENTRE, CHARLES STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0BF
ODS code Y02701
2.3 km
CLIFTON LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
CLIFTON LANE, WEST BROMWICH, B71 3AS
ODS code M88630
2.4 km
OLDBURY HEALTH CENTRE
ALBERT STREET, OLDBURY, B69 4DE
ODS code M88018
2.5 km
ST PAUL'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
222 ST. PAULS ROAD, SMETHWICK, B66 1HB
ODS code M88040
2.5 km
STONE CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
291 WALSALL ROAD, WEST BROMWICH, B71 3LN
ODS code M88008
2.6 km
GREAT BRIDGE PSHIP FOR HEALTH
10 SLATER STREET, GREAT BRIDGE, TIPTON, DY4 7EY
ODS code M88616
2.6 km
LODGE ROAD SURGERY
LODGE ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B67 7LU
ODS code M88633
2.7 km
HAWTHORNS MEDICAL CENTRE
94 LEWISHAM ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B66 2DD
ODS code M88041
3.1 km
ROOD END MEDICAL PRACTICE
182-184 VICARAGE ROAD, OLDBURY, B68 8JB
ODS code M88647
3.3 km
THE VILLAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
158A CRANKHALL LANE, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0EB
ODS code M88001
3.3 km
TAME VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
FRIAR PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0JS
ODS code M88023
3.5 km
Showing 20 of 44 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 197 m
Summerfield Avenue
BCT · West Bromwich
- 211 m
Summerfield Avenue
BCT · West Bromwich
- 333 m
Bratt Street
BCT · West Bromwich
- 339 m
Dartmouth Street
BCT · Carters Green
- 343 m
West Bromwich Town Hall
BCT · Carters Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sandwell 019D, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
3,154 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
Recorded crime
5,236 published events cover 12 months, averaging 436 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,357 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.