Property market
The five-year median is £90,000 from 5 recorded sales in B79 7BG. 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.
B79 7BG
Castle · Tamworth · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B79 7BG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B79
- Postcode sector
- B79 7
- Latitude
- 52.633260
- Longitude
- -1.698722
- British National Grid easting
- 420,487
- British National Grid northing
- 303,986
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
- E00152044
- Lower layer super output area
- Tamworth 002A · E01029835
- Middle layer super output area
- Tamworth 002 · E02006218
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 B79
Property
16 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Strode House, Flat 32, Balfour, Tamworth, B79 7BG | 10 July 2026 | £83,000 |
| Strode House, Flat 31, Balfour, Tamworth, B79 7BG | 22 August 2025 | £90,000 |
| Strode House, Flat 33, Balfour, Tamworth, B79 7BG | 28 April 2023 | £70,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 5
- 380 m
Moorgate Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 656 m
Mortimer House School
Other independent special school
- 959 m
Landau Forte Academy Tamworth Sixth Form
Academy 16 to 19 sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,790
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,051
- Shoplifting 406
- Public order 271
- Anti social behaviour 264
- Vehicle crime 183
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 79
- Postcode households
- 58
- Residents per household
- 1.4
- B79 7 residents
- 6,347
38 female, 41 male
Age bands in B79 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.5%
752 residents
591 residents
1,578 residents
1,771 residents
1,602 residents
This postcode contained 1.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B79 7 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
114 m
THE PEEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
DOCTORS SURGERY, THE PEEL PRACTICE, 2 ALDERGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7DJ
ODS code M83148
196 m
CROWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
TAMWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, UPPER GUNGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7EA
ODS code M83117
467 m
HOLLIES PRACTICE
TAMWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, UPPER GUNGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7EA
ODS code M83088
467 m
LAUREL HOUSE SURGERY
12 ALBERT ROAD, TAMWORTH, B79 7JN
ODS code M83062
536 m
THE ALDERGATE MED.PRACT.
THE MOUNT, 10 SALTERS LANE, TAMWORTH, B79 8BH
ODS code M83032
682 m
TRI-LINKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRI-LINKS, 130 TAMWORTH ROAD, AMINGTON, TAMWORTH, B77 3BZ
ODS code M83693
2.4 km
HEATHVIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
CALEDONIAN, TAMWORTH, B77 2ED
ODS code M83110
2.7 km
DR KHARE'S SURGERY
STONEYDELPH MEDICAL CTR, ELLERBECK, STONYDELPH, TAMWORTH, B77 4JA
ODS code M83113
3.7 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
New Street
BCT · Tamworth
- 0.0 miles
New Street
BCT · Tamworth
- 0.1 miles
Corporation St
BCT · Tamworth Town Centre
- 0.1 miles
Corporation St
BCT · Tamworth Town Centre
- 0.2 miles
Corporation St
BCT · Tamworth Town Centre
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tamworth 002A, 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
3,035 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
- 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
42 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 5 secondary schools. Moorgate Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 380 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,790 published events cover 12 months, averaging 232.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,051 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.