Property market
The five-year median is £220,000 from 1 recorded sale in WV12 4DB. 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.
WV12 4DB
Short Heath · Walsall · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Willenhall
- Ward
- Short Heath
- Local authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Wolverhampton North East
- Postcode district
- WV12
- Postcode sector
- WV12 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WV12 4DB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WV
- Postcode district
- WV12
- Postcode sector
- WV12 4
- Latitude
- 52.593784
- Longitude
- -2.036783
- British National Grid easting
- 397,605
- British National Grid northing
- 299,553
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Walsall · E08000030
- Electoral ward
- Short Heath · E05016449
- Parish or community
- E43000184
- Westminster constituency
- Wolverhampton North East · E14001594
- Output area
- E00052435
- Lower layer super output area
- Walsall 020A · E01010376
- Middle layer super output area
- Walsall 020 · E02002129
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 WV12
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 406, Stroud Avenue, Short Heath, Willenhall, WV12 4DB | 9 August 2022 | £220,000 |
| 406, Stroud Avenue, Short Heath, Willenhall, WV12 4DB | 10 February 2017 | £150,000 |
| 406, Stroud Avenue, Short Heath, Willenhall, WV12 4DB | 30 October 2009 | £98,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 144
- Primary
- 91
- Secondary
- 18
- 456 m
New Leaf School
Academy alternative provision sponsor led
- 481 m
Short Heath Junior School
Community school
- 516 m
Rosedale Church of England C Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,142
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,333
- Criminal damage and arson 362
- Vehicle crime 348
- Shoplifting 247
- Anti social behaviour 159
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- WV12 4 residents
- 10,414
3 female, 4 male
Age bands in WV12 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 23%
1,815 residents
1,080 residents
2,639 residents
2,731 residents
2,464 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WV12 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
53
within 5 km
MODALITY KINGFISHER DARLASTON PRACTICE
BENTLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCHILL ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 0BA
ODS code M91028
976 m
STROUD PRACTICE
BENTLEY MEDICAL CENTRE, CHURCHILL ROAD, BENTLEY, WALSALL, WS2 0BA
ODS code M91614
976 m
LOCKFIELD SURGERY
WILLENHALL HEALTH CENTRE, CROFT STREET, WILLENHALL, WV13 2DR
ODS code M91013
1.7 km
LOCKSTOWN PRACTICE
WILLENHALL MEDICAL CENTRE, GOMER STREET, WILLENHALL, WV13 2DR
ODS code M91021
1.7 km
WILLENHALL MEDICAL CENTRE
CROFT STREET, WILLENHALL, WV13 2DR
ODS code M91033
1.7 km
NEW INVENTION HEALTH CENTRE
66 CANNOCK ROAD, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5RZ
ODS code M91016
1.8 km
THE KEYS FAMILY PRACTICE
WILLENHALL MEDICAL CENTRE, FIELD STREET, WILLENHALL, WV13 2NY
ODS code Y02626
1.8 km
BEECHDALE CENTRE
EDISON ROAD, WALSALL, WS2 7HS
ODS code M91611
2.0 km
ROUGH HAY SURGERY
44B ROUGH HAY ROAD, DARLASTON, WEDNESBURY, WS10 8NQ
ODS code M91640
2.4 km
ASHMORE PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2LH
ODS code M92022
2.6 km
GRIFFITHS DRIVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
75 GRIFFITHS DRIVE, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV11 2JN
ODS code M92026
2.8 km
BIRCHILLS HEALTH CENTRE
23-37 OLD BIRCHILLS, WALSALL, WS2 8QH
ODS code M91629
2.8 km
SINA HEALTH CENTRE
230 COPPICE FARM WAY, NEW INVENTION, WILLENHALL, WV12 5XZ
ODS code M91003
2.8 km
FORRESTER STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
1 FORRESTER STREET, WALSALL, WS2 9PL
ODS code M91613
3.0 km
DARLASTON MEDICAL CENTRE
BIRMINGHAM STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 9JQ
ODS code M91641
3.0 km
DARLASTON FAMILY PRACTICE
PINFOLD STREET, DARLASTON, WEDNESBURY, WS10 8SY
ODS code M91026
3.1 km
DARLASTON HEALTH CENTRE
PINFOLD STREET, WEDNESBURY, WS10 8SY
ODS code Y00278
3.1 km
BLOXWICH MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, BLOXWICH, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91034
3.3 km
KHAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PINFOLD HEALTH CENTRE, FIELD ROAD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91602
3.3 km
PILLAI
THE PINFOLD, WALSALL, WS3 3JP
ODS code M91647
3.3 km
Showing 20 of 53 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
Ensbury Close
BCT · Lodge Farm
- 0.1 miles
Ensbury Close
BCT · Lodge Farm
- 0.1 miles
Bewley Road
BCT · Lodge Farm
- 0.2 miles
Poplar Drive
BCT · Lodge Farm
- 0.2 miles
Ashmore Lake Way
BCT · Lodge Farm
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Walsall 020A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
20,103 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
144 open schools are in scope, including 91 primary and 18 secondary schools. New Leaf School is the nearest published school at 456 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,142 published events cover 12 months, averaging 261.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,333 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.