Property market
The five-year median is £210,000 from 4 recorded sales in B78 3JZ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Tamworth is £230,478 in June 2026, up 1.9% year on year.
B78 3JZ
Castle · Tamworth · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B78 3JZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B78
- Postcode sector
- B78 3
- Latitude
- 52.622488
- Longitude
- -1.701130
- British National Grid easting
- 420,329
- British National Grid northing
- 302,787
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Tamworth · E07000199
- Electoral ward
- Castle · E05007069
- Parish or community
- E43000133
- Westminster constituency
- Tamworth · E14001538
- Output area
- E00152051
- Lower layer super output area
- Tamworth 005B · E01029837
- Middle layer super output area
- Tamworth 005 · E02006221
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
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 25, Sutton Avenue, Tamworth, B78 3JZ | 24 October 2024 | £313,000 |
| 31, Sutton Avenue, Tamworth, B78 3JZ | 31 July 2024 | £245,000 |
| 53, Sutton Avenue, Tamworth, B78 3JZ | 12 October 2023 | £175,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.0 km
Kettlebrook Short Stay School
Pupil referral unit
- 1.1 km
Millfield Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Two Gates Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,460
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 907
- Shoplifting 378
- Public order 249
- Anti social behaviour 230
- Vehicle crime 165
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 83
- Postcode households
- 26
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- B78 3 residents
- 9,847
40 female, 43 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 0.8% 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
9
within 5 km
RIVERSIDE SURGERY
41-42 BALFOUR, TAMWORTH, B79 7BH
ODS code M83111
1.1 km
THE PEEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
DOCTORS SURGERY, THE PEEL PRACTICE, 2 ALDERGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7DJ
ODS code M83148
1.4 km
CROWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
TAMWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, UPPER GUNGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7EA
ODS code M83117
1.6 km
HOLLIES PRACTICE
TAMWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, UPPER GUNGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7EA
ODS code M83088
1.6 km
LAUREL HOUSE SURGERY
12 ALBERT ROAD, TAMWORTH, B79 7JN
ODS code M83062
1.7 km
THE ALDERGATE MED.PRACT.
THE MOUNT, 10 SALTERS LANE, TAMWORTH, B79 8BH
ODS code M83032
1.9 km
HEATHVIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
CALEDONIAN, TAMWORTH, B77 2ED
ODS code M83110
2.5 km
TRI-LINKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRI-LINKS, 130 TAMWORTH ROAD, AMINGTON, TAMWORTH, B77 3BZ
ODS code M83693
2.9 km
DR KHARE'S SURGERY
STONEYDELPH MEDICAL CTR, ELLERBECK, STONYDELPH, TAMWORTH, B77 4JA
ODS code M83113
3.4 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
- 0.2 miles
Lakeview Avenue
BCT · Ventura Park
- 0.2 miles
Sutton Avenue
BCT · Ventura Park
- 0.2 miles
Sutton Avenue
BCT · Ventura Park
- 0.3 miles
Ventura Park Road
BCT · Ventura Park
- 0.3 miles
Ventura Park Road
BCT · Ventura Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tamworth 005B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,286 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 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
42 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 5 secondary schools. Kettlebrook Short Stay School is the nearest published school at 0.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,460 published events cover 12 months, averaging 205 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 907 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.