Property market
The five-year median is £270,000 from 13 recorded sales in B97 5EW. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Redditch is £243,843 in June 2026, down 0.5% year on year.
B97 5EW
Headless Cross & Oakenshaw · Redditch · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B97 5EW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B97
- Postcode sector
- B97 5
- Latitude
- 52.286874
- Longitude
- -1.944020
- British National Grid easting
- 403,915
- British National Grid northing
- 265,415
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Redditch · E07000236
- Electoral ward
- Headless Cross & Oakenshaw · E05015619
- Parish or community
- E43000152
- Westminster constituency
- Redditch · E14001441
- Output area
- E00164532
- Lower layer super output area
- Redditch 012E · E01032261
- Middle layer super output area
- Redditch 012 · E02006732
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 B97
Property
51 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 257, Evesham Road, Redditch, B97 5EW | 16 October 2025 | £310,000 |
| 239, Evesham Road, Redditch, B97 5EW | 28 March 2025 | £365,000 |
| 231, Evesham Road, Redditch, B97 5EW | 5 July 2024 | £280,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 41
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 12
- 671 m
Crabbs Cross Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 691 m
The Vaynor First School
Academy converter
- 741 m
Walkwood Church of England Middle School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,467
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 670
- Anti social behaviour 159
- Criminal damage and arson 138
- Shoplifting 109
- Public order 92
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 58
- Postcode households
- 26
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- B97 5 residents
- 16,989
31 female, 27 male
Age bands in B97 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.2%
2,665 residents
1,577 residents
3,952 residents
4,840 residents
3,711 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B97 5 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
10
within 5 km
CRABBS CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 39 KENILWORTH CLOSE, CRABBS CROSS, REDDITCH, B97 5JX
ODS code M81616
609 m
CRABBS CROSS SURGERY
1 KENILWORTH CLOSE, CRABBS CROSS, REDDITCH, B97 5JX
ODS code M81617
609 m
THE BRIDGE SURGERY
8 EVESHAM ROAD, REDDITCH, B97 4LA
ODS code M81092
762 m
HILLVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
60 BROMSGROVE ROAD, REDDITCH, B97 4RN
ODS code M81041
2.1 km
THE DOW SURGERY
WILLIAM STREET, REDDITCH, B97 4AJ
ODS code M81020
2.3 km
ST STEPHEN'S MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
ST. STEPHENS SURGERY, ADELAIDE STREET, REDDITCH, B97 4AL
ODS code M81001
2.3 km
ELGAR HOUSE
CHURCH ROAD, REDDITCH, B97 4AB
ODS code M81002
2.3 km
THE RIDGEWAY SURGERY
6-8 FECKENHAM ROAD, ASTWOOD BANK, REDDITCH, B96 6DS
ODS code M81077
3.0 km
POOL MEDICAL CENTRE
POOL ROAD, STUDLEY, B80 7QU
ODS code M84002
3.7 km
WINYATES HEALTH CENTRE
WINYATES CENTRE, WINYATES WAY, REDDITCH, B98 0NR
ODS code M81019
3.8 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
- 0.1 miles
Jubilee Avenue
BCT · Crabbs Cross
- 0.1 miles
Vaynor Drive
BCT · Headless Cross
- 0.1 miles
Jubilee Avenue
BCT · Crabbs Cross
- 0.2 miles
Vaynor Drive
BCT · Headless Cross
- 0.2 miles
Ellerdene Close
BCT · Headless Cross
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Redditch 012E, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,995 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
41 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 12 secondary schools. Crabbs Cross Academy is the nearest published school at 671 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,467 published events cover 12 months, averaging 122.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 670 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.