Schools
102 open schools are in scope, including 64 primary and 19 secondary schools. Delves Infant School is the nearest published school at 536 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS5 4BW
Great Barr, Tamebridge & Yew Tree · Sandwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- West Bromwich
- Postcode district
- WS5
- Postcode sector
- WS5 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS5 4BW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 May 2013
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS5
- Postcode sector
- WS5 4
- Latitude
- 52.559021
- Longitude
- -1.965228
- British National Grid easting
- 402,454
- British National Grid northing
- 295,686
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Sandwell · E08000028
- Electoral ward
- Great Barr, Tamebridge & Yew Tree · E05016615
- Parish or community
- E43000182
- Westminster constituency
- West Bromwich · E14001574
- Output area
- E00050453
- Lower layer super output area
- Sandwell 002B · E01009970
- Middle layer super output area
- Sandwell 002 · E02002044
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 102
- Primary
- 64
- Secondary
- 19
- 536 m
Delves Infant School
Academy converter
- 536 m
Delves Junior School
Academy converter
- 632 m
Yew Tree Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,679
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 787
- Vehicle crime 175
- Shoplifting 148
- Criminal damage and arson 137
- Other theft 85
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WS5 4 residents
- 12,444
Age bands in WS5 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.6%
2,588 residents
1,540 residents
3,424 residents
2,975 residents
1,654 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.
GP practices
32
within 5 km straight-line
BROADWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
213 BROADWAY, WALSALL, WS1 3HD
ODS code M91619
1.3 km
TAME VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
FRIAR PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0JS
ODS code M88023
1.6 km
STONE CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
291 WALSALL ROAD, WEST BROMWICH, B71 3LN
ODS code M88008
1.9 km
LITTLE LONDON SURGERY
LITTLE LONDON, CALDMORE, WALSALL, WS1 3EP
ODS code M91008
2.0 km
CLIFTON LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
CLIFTON LANE, WEST BROMWICH, B71 3AS
ODS code M88630
2.1 km
THE VILLAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
158A CRANKHALL LANE, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0EB
ODS code M88001
2.2 km
BRACE STREET HC- KUMAR
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91628
2.4 km
BRACE STREET HC- MAHBUB (M91659)
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91659
2.4 km
BRACE STREET HEALTH CENTRE
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91014
2.4 km
AMBAR MEDICAL CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code Y00228
2.5 km
PALFREY HEALTH CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code M91621
2.5 km
PLECK HEALTH CENTRE
16 OXFORD STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9HY
ODS code M91616
2.8 km
SCOTT ARMS MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITECREST, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 6EE
ODS code M88021
3.0 km
SADDLERS HEALTH CENTRE
HATHERTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91018
3.3 km
UMBRELLA MEDICAL
1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91015
3.3 km
OAKESWELL HEALTH CENTRE
BRUNSWICK PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 9HP
ODS code M88007
3.3 km
FORRESTER STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FORRESTER STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9PL
ODS code M91613
3.5 km
GREAT BARR PRACTICE
379 QUESLETT ROAD, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 7HB
ODS code M88015
3.6 km
JUBILEE HEALTH CENTRE
1 UPPER RUSSELL STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 7AR
ODS code M88022
3.8 km
DR GUDI PV & PARTNER
68 HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0PU
ODS code M88014
4.0 km
Showing 20 of 32 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Fir Tree Schools
BCT · Friar Park
- 0.1 miles
Fir Tree Schools
BCT · Friar Park
- 0.1 miles
Acacia Avenue
BCT · Friar Park
- 0.1 miles
Acacia Avenue
BCT · Friar Park
- 0.2 miles
Plane Tree Road
BCT · Yew Tree
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sandwell 002B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,305 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,679 published events cover 12 months, averaging 139.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 787 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.