Schools
130 open schools are in scope, including 85 primary and 18 secondary schools. Ocker Hill Academy is the nearest published school at 259 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DY4 0QA
Hill Top · Sandwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hill Top
- Local authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- Tipton and Wednesbury
- Postcode district
- DY4
- Postcode sector
- DY4 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DY4 0QA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DY
- Postcode district
- DY4
- Postcode sector
- DY4 0
- Latitude
- 52.544106
- Longitude
- -2.036609
- British National Grid easting
- 397,614
- British National Grid northing
- 294,027
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Sandwell · E08000028
- Electoral ward
- Hill Top · E05016619
- Parish or community
- E43000182
- Westminster constituency
- Tipton and Wednesbury · E14001547
- Output area
- E00051059
- Lower layer super output area
- Sandwell 005D · E01010097
- Middle layer super output area
- Sandwell 005 · E02002047
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 DY4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 130
- Primary
- 85
- Secondary
- 18
- 259 m
Ocker Hill Academy
Academy converter
- 259 m
Ocker Hill Infant School
Community school
- 954 m
Jubilee Park Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,867
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,119
- Shoplifting 432
- Vehicle crime 262
- Criminal damage and arson 252
- Other theft 190
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DY4 0 residents
- 14,588
Age bands in DY4 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.7%
2,877 residents
1,652 residents
3,595 residents
3,603 residents
2,355 residents
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+
- 25%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 25%
- Gigabit-capable
- 25%
- 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
45
within 5 km
GLEBEFIELDS SURGERY
ST. MARKS ROAD, TIPTON, DY4 0SN
ODS code M88612
1.2 km
THE SPIRES HEALTH CENTRE
RICHARD NUGENT CENTRE, KINGSBURY CLOSE, WEDNESBURY, WS10 7DB
ODS code M88643
1.3 km
JUBILEE HEALTH CENTRE
1 UPPER RUSSELL STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 7AR
ODS code M88022
1.4 km
SWANPOOL MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARKS ROAD, TIPTON, DY4 0SZ
ODS code M88010
1.4 km
GREAT BRIDGE PSHIP FOR HEALTH
10 SLATER STREET, GREAT BRIDGE, TIPTON, DY4 7EY
ODS code M88616
1.7 km
NEW STREET SURGERY
NEW STREET, HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0HN
ODS code M88035
1.8 km
GREAT BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE
18 THE GREAT BRIDGE CENTRE, CHARLES STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0BF
ODS code Y02701
1.9 km
OAKESWELL HEALTH CENTRE
BRUNSWICK PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 9HP
ODS code M88007
1.9 km
DR GUDI PV & PARTNER
68 HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0PU
ODS code M88014
1.9 km
MOXLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
10 QUEEN STREET, MOXLEY, WEDNESBURY, WS10 8TF
ODS code M91624
2.0 km
DARLASTON FAMILY PRACTICE
PINFOLD STREET, DARLASTON, WEDNESBURY, WS10 8SY
ODS code M91026
2.5 km
DARLASTON HEALTH CENTRE
PINFOLD STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 8SY
ODS code Y00278
2.5 km
DARLASTON MEDICAL CENTRE
BIRMINGHAM STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 9JQ
ODS code M91641
2.5 km
THE VICTORIA SURGERY
VICTORIA ROAD, TIPTON, DY4 8SS
ODS code M88600
2.7 km
THE VILLAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
158A CRANKHALL LANE, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0EB
ODS code M88001
2.9 km
BLACK COUNTRY FAMILY PRACTICE
NEPTUNE HEALTH PARK, SEDGLEY ROAD WEST, TIPTON, DY4 8PX
ODS code M88013
2.9 km
ROUGH HAY SURGERY
44B ROUGH HAY ROAD, DARLASTON, WEDNESBURY, WS10 8NQ
ODS code M91640
3.2 km
COSELEY MEDICAL CENTRE
32-34 AVENUE ROAD, COSELEY, BILSTON, WV14 9DJ
ODS code M87021
3.4 km
BILSTON URBAN VILLAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
BANKFIELD ROAD, BILSTON, WV14 0EE
ODS code Y02757
3.5 km
TAME VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
FRIAR PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0JS
ODS code M88023
3.5 km
Showing 20 of 45 matching practices.
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
- 0.1 miles
Bagnell Street
BCT · Ocker Hill
- 0.1 miles
Bagnell Street
BCT · Ocker Hill
- 0.1 miles
Gospel Oak Road
BCT · Gospel Oak
- 0.1 miles
Lea Avenue
BCT · Gospel Oak
- 0.2 miles
Lea Avenue
BCT · Gospel Oak
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sandwell 005D, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,876 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 1
- 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
Recorded crime
2,867 published events cover 12 months, averaging 238.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,119 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.