Property market
The five-year median is £545,000 from 1 recorded sale in B78 3EA. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Lichfield is £337,052 in June 2026, up 3.9% year on year.
B78 3EA
Bourne Vale · Lichfield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B78 3EA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B78
- Postcode sector
- B78 3
- Latitude
- 52.605955
- Longitude
- -1.765077
- British National Grid easting
- 416,006
- British National Grid northing
- 300,932
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Lichfield · E07000194
- Electoral ward
- Bourne Vale · E05010655
- Parish or community
- E04008921
- Westminster constituency
- Tamworth · E14001538
- Output area
- E00150244
- Lower layer super output area
- Lichfield 012A · E01029488
- Middle layer super output area
- Lichfield 012 · E02006157
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 B78
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 84, Primrose Cottage, Bangley Lane, Hints, Tamworth, B78 3EA | 19 April 2024 | £545,000 |
| 84, Primrose Cottage, Bangley Lane, Hints, Tamworth, B78 3EA | 26 February 2021 | £520,000 |
| Great Bangley Cottage, Bangley Lane, Hints, Tamworth, B78 3EA | 15 October 2020 | £510,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 0
- 2.9 km
Longwood Primary School
Foundation school
- 3.4 km
Manor Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 3.5 km
Little Sutton Primary School
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 30
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 10
- Violence and sexual offences 7
- Vehicle crime 6
- Public order 4
- Other theft 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 48
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 3.4
- B78 3 residents
- 9,847
24 female, 24 male
Age bands in B78 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.8%
1,588 residents
1,063 residents
2,383 residents
2,969 residents
2,096 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B78 3 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
1
within 5 km
SUTTON COLDFIELD GROUP PRACTICE
233 TAMWORTH ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B75 6DX
ODS code M85046
4.3 km
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
- 1.1 miles
Gainsborough Drive
BCT · Mile Oak
- 1.2 miles
Bassetts Pole PH
BCT · Carroway Head
- 1.2 miles
Gainsborough Drive
BCT · Mile Oak
- 1.2 miles
Bassetts Pole PH
BCT · Carroway Head
- 1.5 miles
George Avenue
BCT · Mile Oak
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lichfield 012A, 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
20,125 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
12 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 0 secondary schools. Longwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
30 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.