Property market
The five-year median is £160,000 from 1 recorded sale in WS8 6JL. 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.
WS8 6JL
Brownhills · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Walsall
- Ward
- Brownhills
- Local authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Aldridge-Brownhills
- Postcode district
- WS8
- Postcode sector
- WS8 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WS8 6JL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WS
- Postcode district
- WS8
- Postcode sector
- WS8 6
- Latitude
- 52.653216
- Longitude
- -1.925301
- British National Grid easting
- 405,150
- British National Grid northing
- 306,166
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Walsall · E08000030
- Electoral ward
- Brownhills · E05016439
- Parish or community
- E43000184
- Westminster constituency
- Aldridge-Brownhills · E14001064
- Output area
- E00052082
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 002C · E01010305
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 002 · E02002111
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 WS8
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 27, Third Avenue, Walsall, WS8 6JL | 8 December 2021 | £160,000 |
| 2, Third Avenue, Walsall, WS8 6JL | 29 June 2017 | £102,000 |
| 7, Third Avenue, Walsall, WS8 6JL | 24 March 2016 | £95,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 36
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 6
- 389 m
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 435 m
Brownhills Ormiston Academy
Academy converter
- 653 m
St James Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,112
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 449
- Criminal damage and arson 134
- Shoplifting 96
- Vehicle crime 94
- Public order 79
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 76
- Postcode households
- 25
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- WS8 6 residents
- 6,726
41 female, 35 male
Age bands in WS8 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.5%
1,348 residents
767 residents
1,721 residents
1,838 residents
1,203 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WS8 6 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
13
within 5 km
HOLLAND PARK SURGERY
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91626
755 m
PARKSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JB
ODS code M91006
755 m
NEW ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
PARK VIEW CENTRE, CHESTER ROAD NORTH, BROWNHILLS, WALSALL, WS8 7JG
ODS code M91609
1.1 km
STREETS CORNER SURGERY
79-81 LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91009
2.6 km
WALSALL WOOD HEALTH CENTRE
LICHFIELD ROAD, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9NP
ODS code M91639
2.6 km
DARWIN MEDICAL PRACTICE
GREENWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, LICHFIELD ROAD, BURNTWOOD, WS7 0AQ
ODS code M83617
3.0 km
ST JOHN'S MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGH STREET, WALSALL WOOD, WALSALL, WS9 9LP
ODS code M91007
3.0 km
SALTERS MEADOW HEALTH CTR
RUGELEY ROAD, CHASE TERRACE, BURNTWOOD, WS7 1AQ
ODS code M83072
3.3 km
NORTON CANES HEALTH CENTRE
BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83063
3.8 km
NORTON CANES PRACTICE
NORTON CANES CLINIC, BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83727
3.8 km
NORTON CANES SURGERY
NORTON CANES CLINIC, BROWNHILLS ROAD, NORTON CANES, CANNOCK, WS11 9SE
ODS code M83717
3.8 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
HIGH STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LX
ODS code M91654
3.9 km
CHAPEL STREET SURGERY
1 CHAPEL STREET, PELSALL, WALSALL, WS3 4LN
ODS code M91024
4.1 km
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
Freeth Road
BCT · Ogley Hay
- 0.1 miles
Freeth Road
BCT · Ogley Hay
- 0.1 miles
Newtown Bridge
BCT · Ogley Hay
- 0.2 miles
Fourth Avenue
BCT · Ogley Hay
- 0.2 miles
Newtown Bridge
BCT · Ogley Hay
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 002C, 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
5,268 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 0
- 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
36 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 6 secondary schools. St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 389 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,112 published events cover 12 months, averaging 92.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 449 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.