Property market
The five-year median is £463,250 from 6 recorded sales in WS5 3PL. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Walsall is £214,577 in June 2026, up 2.2% year on year.
WS5 3PL
Paddock · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS5 3PL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS5
- Postcode sector
- WS5 3
- Latitude
- 52.577932
- Longitude
- -1.955636
- British National Grid easting
- 403,103
- British National Grid northing
- 297,790
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Walsall · E08000030
- Electoral ward
- Paddock · E05016443
- Parish or community
- E43000184
- Westminster constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich · E14001562
- Output area
- E00052193
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 029C · E01010328
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 029 · E02002138
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 WS5
Property
30 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 53, Gloucester Road, Walsall, WS5 3PL | 16 January 2026 | £475,000 |
| 11a, Gloucester Road, Walsall, WS5 3PL | 3 December 2025 | £575,000 |
| 43, Gloucester Road, Walsall, WS5 3PL | 14 November 2025 | £540,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 97
- Primary
- 64
- Secondary
- 13
- 759 m
Queen Mary's Grammar School
Academy converter
- 830 m
Park Hall Infant Academy
Academy converter
- 858 m
Park Hall Junior Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,533
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 705
- Vehicle crime 174
- Criminal damage and arson 117
- Burglary 95
- Other theft 90
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 87
- Postcode households
- 30
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- WS5 3 residents
- 9,787
42 female, 45 male
Age bands in WS5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.2%
1,607 residents
1,080 residents
2,258 residents
2,569 residents
2,526 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WS5 3 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+
- 59.4%
- 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.
GP practices
38
within 5 km
LITTLE LONDON SURGERY
LITTLE LONDON, CALDMORE, WALSALL, WS1 3EP
ODS code M91008
1.6 km
BROADWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
213 BROADWAY, WALSALL, WS1 3HD
ODS code M91619
1.9 km
BRACE STREET HC- KUMAR
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91628
1.9 km
BRACE STREET HC- MAHBUB (M91659)
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91659
1.9 km
BRACE STREET HEALTH CENTRE
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91014
1.9 km
SADDLERS HEALTH CENTRE
HATHERTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91018
1.9 km
UMBRELLA MEDICAL
1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91015
1.9 km
AMBAR MEDICAL CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code Y00228
2.4 km
PALFREY HEALTH CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code M91621
2.4 km
ST PETER'S SURGERY
51 LECKIE ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 8DA
ODS code M91004
2.7 km
FORRESTER STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FORRESTER STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9PL
ODS code M91613
2.8 km
PLECK HEALTH CENTRE
16 OXFORD STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9HY
ODS code M91616
2.9 km
BIRCHILLS HEALTH CENTRE
23-37 OLD BIRCHILLS, WALSALL, WS2 8QH
ODS code M91629
3.1 km
RUSHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
107 LICHFIELD ROAD, RUSHALL, WALSALL, WS4 1HB
ODS code M91019
3.4 km
TAME VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
FRIAR PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0JS
ODS code M88023
3.4 km
NORTHGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
ANCHOR MEADOW, ALDRIDGE, WALSALL, WS9 8AJ
ODS code M91017
3.6 km
PORTLAND MEDICAL PRACTICE
ANCHOR MEADOW, ALDRIDGE, WALSALL, WS9 8AJ
ODS code M91010
3.6 km
THE VILLAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
158A CRANKHALL LANE, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0EB
ODS code M88001
3.9 km
HARDEN HEALTH CENTRE
HARDEN ROAD, LEAMORE, WALSALL, WS3 1ET
ODS code M91036
4.0 km
SCOTT ARMS MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITECREST, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 6EE
ODS code M88021
4.0 km
Showing 20 of 38 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Crescent
BCT · Chuckery
- 0.1 miles
The Crescent
BCT · Chuckery
- 0.2 miles
Greaves Avenue
BCT · Gillity Village
- 0.2 miles
Broadway North
BCT · Chuckery
- 0.2 miles
Athlone Road
BCT · Gillity Village
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 029C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,130 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
- 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
97 open schools are in scope, including 64 primary and 13 secondary schools. Queen Mary's Grammar School is the nearest published school at 759 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,533 published events cover 12 months, averaging 127.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 705 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.