Schools
112 open schools are in scope, including 71 primary and 19 secondary schools. Delves Infant School is the nearest published school at 873 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WS5 4RG
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 4RG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS5
- Postcode sector
- WS5 4
- Latitude
- 52.555166
- Longitude
- -1.971131
- British National Grid easting
- 402,054
- British National Grid northing
- 295,257
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
- E00050458
- Lower layer super output area
- Sandwell 002A · E01009969
- 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
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 18, Willowherb Close, Walsall, WS5 4RG | 13 July 2015 | £179,000 |
| 5, Willowherb Close, Walsall, WS5 4RG | 28 June 2013 | £173,000 |
| 7, Willowherb Close, Walsall, WS5 4RG | 15 October 2010 | £170,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 112
- Primary
- 71
- Secondary
- 19
- 873 m
Delves Infant School
Academy converter
- 873 m
Delves Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Yew Tree Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,198
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,036
- Criminal damage and arson 224
- Vehicle crime 215
- Shoplifting 151
- Public order 113
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 69
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 4.1
- WS5 4 residents
- 12,444
32 female, 37 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 0.6% 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
39
within 5 km
TAME VALLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
FRIAR PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 0JS
ODS code M88023
1.1 km
STONE CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
291 WALSALL ROAD, WEST BROMWICH, B71 3LN
ODS code M88008
1.3 km
BROADWAY MEDICAL CENTRE
213 BROADWAY, WALSALL, WS1 3HD
ODS code M91619
1.4 km
CLIFTON LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
CLIFTON LANE, WEST BROMWICH, B71 3AS
ODS code M88630
1.5 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
2.3 km
AMBAR MEDICAL CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code Y00228
2.6 km
PALFREY HEALTH CENTRE
151 WEDNESBURY ROAD, WALSALL, WS1 4JQ
ODS code M91621
2.6 km
BRACE STREET HC- KUMAR
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91628
2.6 km
BRACE STREET HC- MAHBUB (M91659)
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91659
2.6 km
BRACE STREET HEALTH CENTRE
BRACE STREET, WALSALL, WS1 3PS
ODS code M91014
2.6 km
PLECK HEALTH CENTRE
16 OXFORD STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9HY
ODS code M91616
2.8 km
OAKESWELL HEALTH CENTRE
BRUNSWICK PARK ROAD, WEDNESBURY, WS10 9HP
ODS code M88007
2.9 km
SCOTT ARMS MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITECREST, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 6EE
ODS code M88021
3.3 km
JUBILEE HEALTH CENTRE
1 UPPER RUSSELL STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 7AR
ODS code M88022
3.3 km
DR GUDI PV & PARTNER
68 HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0PU
ODS code M88014
3.4 km
NEW STREET SURGERY
NEW STREET, HILL TOP, WEST BROMWICH, B70 0HN
ODS code M88035
3.5 km
SADDLERS HEALTH CENTRE
HATHERTON MEDICAL CENTRE, 1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91018
3.6 km
UMBRELLA MEDICAL
1 HATHERTON STREET, WALSALL, WS1 1AF
ODS code M91015
3.6 km
THE SPIRES HEALTH CENTRE
RICHARD NUGENT CENTRE, KINGSBURY CLOSE, WEDNESBURY, WS10 7DB
ODS code M88643
3.6 km
Showing 20 of 39 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
Poppy Drive
BCT · Grove Vale
- 0.1 miles
Poppy Drive
BCT · Grove Vale
- 0.2 miles
Tame Bridge
BCT · Tame Bridge
- 0.2 miles
Tamebridge Estate
BCT · Grove Vale
- 0.2 miles
Tamebridge Estate
BCT · Grove Vale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Sandwell 002A, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,522 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 4
- Low risk addresses
- 12
- 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
2,198 published events cover 12 months, averaging 183.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,036 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.