Property market
The five-year median is £650,000 from 3 recorded sales in B79 9BX. 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.
B79 9BX
Whittington & Streethay · Lichfield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B79 9BX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B79
- Postcode sector
- B79 9
- Latitude
- 52.690488
- Longitude
- -1.720373
- British National Grid easting
- 418,997
- British National Grid northing
- 310,346
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Lichfield · E07000194
- Electoral ward
- Whittington & Streethay · E05010672
- Parish or community
- E04008923
- Westminster constituency
- Tamworth · E14001538
- Output area
- E00150399
- Lower layer super output area
- Lichfield 008B · E01029517
- Middle layer super output area
- Lichfield 008 · E02006153
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
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Shrubberies, The Shrubbery, Elford, Tamworth, B79 9BX | 27 March 2026 | £595,000 |
| Beck House, The Shrubbery, Elford, Tamworth, B79 9BX | 7 November 2025 | £685,000 |
| The Woodlands, The Shrubbery, Elford, Tamworth, B79 9BX | 11 March 2022 | £650,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 1
- 276 m
The Howard Primary School
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- 2.8 km
Mary Howard Church of England Primary School
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- 3.8 km
Whittington Primary and Nursery School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Vehicle crime 4
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Burglary 2
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 19
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- B79 9 residents
- 2,240
8 female, 11 male
Age bands in B79 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.4%
303 residents
196 residents
406 residents
706 residents
577 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B79 9 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Osiers
BCT · Elford
- 0.1 miles
Church Road
BCT · Elford
- 0.1 miles
The Osiers
BCT · Elford
- 0.1 miles
Church Road
BCT · Elford
- 0.2 miles
Eddies Lane
BCT · Elford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lichfield 008B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,436 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 2
- 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
11 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 1 secondary schools. The Howard Primary School is the nearest published school at 276 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
13 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Vehicle crime with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.