Property market
The five-year median is £392,500 from 1 recorded sale in B70 8HR. 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.
B70 8HR
Greets Green & Lyng · Sandwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- West Bromwich
- Ward
- Greets Green & Lyng
- Local authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- West Bromwich
- Postcode district
- B70
- Postcode sector
- B70 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B70 8HR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B70
- Postcode sector
- B70 8
- Latitude
- 52.517187
- Longitude
- -2.000894
- British National Grid easting
- 400,036
- British National Grid northing
- 291,032
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
- E00050511
- Lower layer super output area
- Sandwell 019A · E01009986
- 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
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 49, Oak Road, West Bromwich, B70 8HR | 26 September 2025 | £392,500 |
| 59, Oak Road, West Bromwich, B70 8HR | 30 October 2019 | £100,000 |
| 43, Oak Road, West Bromwich, B70 8HR | 29 October 2013 | £65,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 126
- Primary
- 88
- Secondary
- 22
- 192 m
Lodge Primary School
Community school
- 379 m
The British Muslim School
Other independent school
- 464 m
Shireland Biomedical Utc
University technical college
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,380
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,407
- Public order 445
- Criminal damage and arson 414
- Shoplifting 407
- Vehicle crime 378
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 89
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 4.0
- B70 8 residents
- 5,405
39 female, 50 male
Age bands in B70 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.1%
1,149 residents
854 residents
1,562 residents
1,217 residents
724 residents
This postcode contained 1.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B70 8 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+
- 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
45
within 5 km
DR ARORA RK
FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88619
237 m
DR DEWAN VK
FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88646
237 m
LINKWAY MEDICAL PRACTICE
LYNG CENTRE FOR HEALTH, FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88038
237 m
ST PAUL'S PARTNERSHIP - LYNG MEDICAL
FRANK FISHER WAY, WEST BROMWICH, B70 7AW
ODS code M88625
237 m
DR SINGH M
1 CAMBRIDGE STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 8HQ
ODS code M88628
259 m
DR UI HAQUE N
6 HIGH STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 6JX
ODS code M88626
1.2 km
ST PAULS PARTNERS
6 HIGH STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 6JX
ODS code M88639
1.2 km
OLDBURY HEALTH CENTRE
ALBERT STREET, OLDBURY, B69 4DE
ODS code M88018
1.7 km
ST PAUL'S MEDICAL PRACTICE
222 ST. PAULS ROAD, SMETHWICK, B66 1HB
ODS code M88040
2.0 km
GREAT BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE
18 THE GREAT BRIDGE CENTRE, CHARLES STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0BF
ODS code Y02701
2.2 km
DR GUDI PV & PARTNER
68 HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0PU
ODS code M88014
2.2 km
LODGE ROAD SURGERY
LODGE ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B67 7LU
ODS code M88633
2.2 km
NEW STREET SURGERY
NEW STREET, HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0HN
ODS code M88035
2.3 km
GREAT BRIDGE PSHIP FOR HEALTH
10 SLATER STREET, GREAT BRIDGE, TIPTON, DY4 7EY
ODS code M88616
2.5 km
ROOD END MEDICAL PRACTICE
182-184 VICARAGE ROAD, OLDBURY, B68 8JB
ODS code M88647
2.6 km
HAWTHORNS MEDICAL CENTRE
94 LEWISHAM ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B66 2DD
ODS code M88041
2.9 km
PORTWAY FAMILY PRACTICE
PORTWAY LIFESTYLE CENTRE, NEWBURY LANE, OLDBURY, B69 1HE
ODS code M88026
3.0 km
WARLEY ROAD SURGERY
118 WARLEY ROAD, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9SZ
ODS code M88640
3.0 km
DOG KENNEL LANE SURGERY
64 DOG KENNEL LANE, WARLEY, OLDBURY, B68 9LZ
ODS code M88635
3.1 km
CLIFTON LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
CLIFTON LANE, WEST BROMWICH, B71 3AS
ODS code M88630
3.2 km
Showing 20 of 45 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
Lodge Road
BCT · Lamberts End
- 0.1 miles
Lodge Road
BCT · Lamberts End
- 0.1 miles
Lodge Road (West Midlands Metro)
PLT · Lamberts End
- 0.1 miles
Lodge Road (West Midlands Metro)
PLT · Lamberts End
- 0.1 miles
Lodge Road (West Midlands Metro)
MET · Lamberts End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sandwell 019A, 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
5,197 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
126 open schools are in scope, including 88 primary and 22 secondary schools. Lodge Primary School is the nearest published school at 192 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5,380 published events cover 12 months, averaging 448.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,407 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.