Property market
The five-year median is £375,000 from 1 recorded sale in B98 8RT. 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.
B98 8RT
North · Redditch · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B98 8RT
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 1981
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B98
- Postcode sector
- B98 8
- Latitude
- 52.319889
- Longitude
- -1.918025
- British National Grid easting
- 405,684
- British National Grid northing
- 269,089
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Redditch · E07000236
- Electoral ward
- North · E05015621
- Parish or community
- E43000152
- Westminster constituency
- Redditch · E14001441
- Output area
- E00164378
- Lower layer super output area
- Redditch 001B · E01032227
- Middle layer super output area
- Redditch 001 · E02006721
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 B98
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Wordsley Close, Redditch, B98 8RT | 19 August 2022 | £375,000 |
| 7, Wordsley Close, Redditch, B98 8RT | 28 August 2018 | £283,000 |
| 2, Wordsley Close, Redditch, B98 8RT | 31 March 2017 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 10
- 989 m
Abbeywood First School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Church Hill Middle School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
The Forge Secondary Short Stay School
Pupil referral unit
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 973
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 474
- Anti social behaviour 109
- Criminal damage and arson 94
- Other theft 65
- Vehicle crime 54
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 11
- Residents per household
- 1.6
- B98 8 residents
- 8,704
10 female, 8 male
Age bands in B98 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.6%
1,621 residents
969 residents
2,430 residents
2,054 residents
1,511 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B98 8 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
- 90.9%
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
8
within 5 km
ELGAR HOUSE
CHURCH ROAD, REDDITCH, B97 4AB
ODS code M81002
2.1 km
THE DOW SURGERY
WILLIAM STREET, REDDITCH, B97 4AJ
ODS code M81020
2.2 km
ST STEPHEN'S MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
ST. STEPHENS SURGERY, ADELAIDE STREET, REDDITCH, B97 4AL
ODS code M81001
2.2 km
WINYATES HEALTH CENTRE
WINYATES CENTRE, WINYATES WAY, REDDITCH, B98 0NR
ODS code M81019
2.4 km
HILLVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
60 BROMSGROVE ROAD, REDDITCH, B97 4RN
ODS code M81041
2.8 km
THE BRIDGE SURGERY
8 EVESHAM ROAD, REDDITCH, B97 4LA
ODS code M81092
3.5 km
CRABBS CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 39 KENILWORTH CLOSE, CRABBS CROSS, REDDITCH, B97 5JX
ODS code M81616
4.6 km
CRABBS CROSS SURGERY
1 KENILWORTH CLOSE, CRABBS CROSS, REDDITCH, B97 5JX
ODS code M81617
4.6 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
- 0.2 miles
Stoke Lane
BCT · Church Hill
- 0.2 miles
Ridings Lane
BCT · Church Hill
- 0.2 miles
Stoke Lane
BCT · Church Hill
- 0.3 miles
Thornbury Lane
BCT · Church Hill
- 0.3 miles
Thornbury Lane
BCT · Church Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Redditch 001B, 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
32,814 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
36 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 10 secondary schools. Abbeywood First School is the nearest published school at 989 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
973 published events cover 12 months, averaging 81.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 474 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.