Property market
The five-year median is £272,500 from 2 recorded sales in WS5 4RB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Sandwell is £205,743 in June 2026, up 0.6% year on year.
WS5 4RB
Great Barr, Tamebridge & Yew Tree · Sandwell · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Walsall
- Local authority
- Sandwell
- Constituency
- West Bromwich
- Postcode district
- WS5
- Postcode sector
- WS5 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS5 4RB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS5
- Postcode sector
- WS5 4
- Latitude
- 52.556496
- Longitude
- -1.972473
- British National Grid easting
- 401,963
- British National Grid northing
- 295,405
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
- E00050459
- Lower layer super output area
- Sandwell 002D · E01009973
- 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
Property
51 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Poppy Drive, Walsall, WS5 4RB | 22 November 2022 | £350,000 |
| 34, Poppy Drive, Walsall, WS5 4RB | 24 September 2021 | £194,999 |
| 23, Poppy Drive, Walsall, WS5 4RB | 6 November 2020 | £145,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 110
- Primary
- 70
- Secondary
- 19
- 743 m
Delves Infant School
Academy converter
- 743 m
Delves Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Joseph Leckie Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,352
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,087
- Criminal damage and arson 224
- Vehicle crime 219
- Shoplifting 182
- Other theft 132
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 108
- Postcode households
- 30
- Residents per household
- 3.6
- WS5 4 residents
- 12,444
60 female, 48 male
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
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WS5 4 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
35
within 5 km
TAME VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
FRIAR PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0JS
ODS code M88023
1.1 km
BROADWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
213 BROADWAY, WALSALL, WS1 3HD
ODS code M91619
1.3 km
STONE CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
291 WALSALL ROAD, WEST BROMWICH, B71 3LN
ODS code M88008
1.4 km
CLIFTON LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
CLIFTON LANE, WEST BROMWICH, B71 3AS
ODS code M88630
1.6 km
THE VILLAGE MEDICAL CENTRE
158A CRANKHALL LANE, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0EB
ODS code M88001
1.7 km
LITTLE LONDON SURGERY
LITTLE LONDON, CALDMORE, WALSALL, WS1 3EP
ODS code M91008
2.1 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
BRACE STREET HC- KUMAR
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91628
2.5 km
BRACE STREET HC- MAHBUB (M91659)
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91659
2.5 km
BRACE STREET HEALTH CENTRE
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91014
2.5 km
PLECK HEALTH CENTRE
16 OXFORD STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9HY
ODS code M91616
2.6 km
OAKESWELL HEALTH CENTRE
BRUNSWICK PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 9HP
ODS code M88007
2.8 km
JUBILEE HEALTH CENTRE
1 UPPER RUSSELL STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 7AR
ODS code M88022
3.2 km
SCOTT ARMS MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITECREST, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 6EE
ODS code M88021
3.4 km
SADDLERS HEALTH CENTRE
HATHERTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91018
3.4 km
UMBRELLA MEDICAL
1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91015
3.4 km
DR GUDI PV & PARTNER
68 HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0PU
ODS code M88014
3.5 km
NEW STREET SURGERY
NEW STREET, HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0HN
ODS code M88035
3.5 km
FORRESTER STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FORRESTER STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9PL
ODS code M91613
3.5 km
Showing 20 of 35 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
Poppy Drive
BCT · Grove Vale
- 0.1 miles
Tame Bridge
BCT · Tame Bridge
- 0.1 miles
Poppy Drive
BCT · Grove Vale
- 0.1 miles
Tame Bridge
BCT · Tame Bridge
- 0.2 miles
West Bromwich Road
BCT · Friar Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sandwell 002D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,128 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
Schools
110 open schools are in scope, including 70 primary and 19 secondary schools. Delves Infant School is the nearest published school at 743 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,352 published events cover 12 months, averaging 196 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,087 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.