Blackheath

Blackheath is covered by postcode district B65. It is mostly in the Sandwell council area: 163 of its 165 postcodes. The others are in Dudley.

Typical price £210,000 Homes sold in Blackheath, last 12 months. ▲ 7.7% on the year before Gigabit broadband 154 of 162 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 3 of 165 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 19 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Blackheath, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Blackheath, by flood risk Of the 165 postcodes in Blackheath that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 162 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Blackheath. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. M5 B65 0AA: not on the flood risk listB65 0AD: not on the flood risk listB65 0AJ: not on the flood risk listB65 0AN: not on the flood risk listB65 0AR: not on the flood risk listB65 0AT: not on the flood risk listB65 0AU: not on the flood risk listB65 0AX: not on the flood risk listB65 0BA: not on the flood risk listB65 0BE: not on the flood risk listB65 0DE: not on the flood risk listB65 0DF: not on the flood risk listB65 0DG: not on the flood risk listB65 0DH: not on the flood risk listB65 0DJ: not on the flood risk listB65 0DL: not on the flood risk listB65 0DN: not on the flood risk listB65 0DQ: not on the flood risk listB65 0DR: not on the flood risk listB65 0DT: not on the flood risk listB65 0DU: not on the flood risk listB65 0DW: not on the flood risk listB65 0DX: not on the flood risk listB65 0DZ: not on the flood risk listB65 0EA: not on the flood risk listB65 0EB: not on the flood risk listB65 0EE: not on the flood risk listB65 0EG: not on the flood risk listB65 0EH: not on the flood risk listB65 0EJ: not on the flood risk listB65 0EL: not on the flood risk listB65 0EN: not on the flood risk listB65 0EP: not on the flood risk listB65 0ER: not on the flood risk listB65 0ES: not on the flood risk listB65 0EU: not on the flood risk listB65 0FD: not on the flood risk listB65 0FF: not on the flood risk listB65 0HG: not on the flood risk listB65 0HJ: not on the flood risk listB65 0HL: not on the flood risk listB65 0HP: not on the flood risk listB65 0HS: not on the flood risk listB65 0HT: not on the flood risk listB65 0HY: not on the flood risk listB65 0JE: not on the flood risk listB65 0JN: not on the flood risk listB65 0JQ: not on the flood risk listB65 0JS: not on the flood risk listB65 0JU: not on the flood risk listB65 0JY: not on the flood risk listB65 0LG: not on the flood risk listB65 0LJ: not on the flood risk listB65 0LP: not on the flood risk listB65 0LR: not on the flood risk listB65 0LS: not on the flood risk listB65 0LU: not on the flood risk listB65 0LW: not on the flood risk listB65 0LY: not on the flood risk listB65 0NE: not on the flood risk listB65 0NL: not on the flood risk listB65 0NN: not on the flood risk listB65 0NP: not on the flood risk listB65 0NR: not on the flood risk listB65 0NS: not on the flood risk listB65 0NT: not on the flood risk listB65 0NU: not on the flood risk listB65 0NW: not on the flood risk listB65 0NX: not on the flood risk listB65 0NY: not on the flood risk listB65 0PA: not on the flood risk listB65 0PB: not on the flood risk listB65 0PD: not on the flood risk listB65 0PE: not on the flood risk listB65 0PG: not on the flood risk listB65 0PH: not on the flood risk listB65 0PQ: not on the flood risk listB65 0QL: not on the flood risk listB65 0QN: not on the flood risk listB65 0QW: not on the flood risk listB65 0QX: not on the flood risk listB65 0RA: not on the flood risk listB65 0RE: not on the flood risk listB65 0RG: not on the flood risk listB65 0RN: not on the flood risk listB65 0RQ: not on the flood risk listB65 0RW: not on the flood risk listB65 8AA: not on the flood risk listB65 8AE: not on the flood risk listB65 8AP: not on the flood risk listB65 8AR: not on the flood risk listB65 8AS: not on the flood risk listB65 8AT: not on the flood risk listB65 8AU: not on the flood risk listB65 8AX: not on the flood risk listB65 8AY: not on the flood risk listB65 8AZ: not on the flood risk listB65 8BA: not on the flood risk listB65 8BB: not on the flood risk listB65 8BD: not on the flood risk listB65 8BE: not on the flood risk listB65 8BF: not on the flood risk listB65 8BG: not on the flood risk listB65 8BH: not on the flood risk listB65 8BJ: not on the flood risk listB65 8BN: not on the flood risk listB65 8BP: not on the flood risk listB65 8BQ: not on the flood risk listB65 8BS: not on the flood risk listB65 8BT: not on the flood risk listB65 8BW: not on the flood risk listB65 8BY: not on the flood risk listB65 8DP: not on the flood risk listB65 8DR: not on the flood risk listB65 8DS: not on the flood risk listB65 8DT: not on the flood risk listB65 8DU: not on the flood risk listB65 8DZ: not on the flood risk listB65 8EG: not on the flood risk listB65 9AD: not on the flood risk listB65 9AS: not on the flood risk listB65 9AT: not on the flood risk listB65 9AU: not on the flood risk listB65 9AX: not on the flood risk listB65 9AY: not on the flood risk listB65 9BA: not on the flood risk listB65 9BD: not on the flood risk listB65 9BE: not on the flood risk listB65 9BF: not on the flood risk listB65 9BG: not on the flood risk listB65 9BH: not on the flood risk listB65 9BJ: not on the flood risk listB65 9BL: not on the flood risk listB65 9BQ: not on the flood risk listB65 9HH: not on the flood risk listB65 9LP: not on the flood risk listB65 9LR: not on the flood risk listB65 9LS: not on the flood risk listB65 9LT: not on the flood risk listB65 9LX: not on the flood risk listB65 9NA: not on the flood risk listB65 9NB: not on the flood risk listB65 9ND: not on the flood risk listB65 9NE: not on the flood risk listB65 9NF: not on the flood risk listB65 9NG: not on the flood risk listB65 9NH: not on the flood risk listB65 9NJ: not on the flood risk listB65 9NL: not on the flood risk listB65 9NQ: not on the flood risk listB65 9QD: not on the flood risk listB65 9QE: not on the flood risk listB65 9QG: not on the flood risk listB65 9QH: not on the flood risk listB65 9QJ: not on the flood risk listB65 9QL: not on the flood risk listB65 9QN: not on the flood risk listB65 9QP: not on the flood risk listB65 9QQ: not on the flood risk listB65 9QR: not on the flood risk listB65 9QW: not on the flood risk listB65 0NZ: low flood risk at worstB65 0RL: high flood riskB65 0RP: high flood risk Blackheath Map of every postcode in Blackheath, by flood risk Of the 165 postcodes in Blackheath that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 162 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Blackheath. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. M5 Blackheath
  • A home or business at high risk: 2
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 162

Of the 165 postcodes in Blackheath that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at low risk at worst and 162 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.4781, longitude -2.0389. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

B65 0RL7 at high riskB65 0RP1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Blackheath?

Homes sold for a typical £210,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 7.7% on the 12 months before. At 154 of the 162 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 19 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3 of its 165 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Rowley Regis, 550 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Blackheath?

Homes in Blackheath sold for a typical £210,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 51 sales, up 7.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£210,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£195,000 12 months to August 2025
▲ up 7.7% on the 12 months before
  • Detached £402,500 10 sales
  • Semi-detached £220,000 15 sales
  • Terraced £177,500 20 sales
  • Flat or maisonette £133,500 6 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole B65 district, Blackheath's main postcode district: a typical £215,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Blackheath: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Blackheath?

4 of the 165 postcodes now in use in Blackheath came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 73 homes sold in Blackheath were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the B65 district, 0%.

The newest postcodes

B65 0FDsince September 2025B65 0FFsince September 2025B65 9BFsince August 2024B65 0DZsince September 2021

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn BlackheathAcross the B65 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 51 (0%) 0 of 171 (0%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 73 (0%) 0 of 240 (0%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Blackheath?

Ofcom reports on 162 of the 165 postcodes in Blackheath. At 154 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit154 of 162
Postcodes where every home can get superfast159 of 162

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Blackheath at risk of flooding?

3 of the 165 postcodes in Blackheath have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 19 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 3 of 165 postcodes High: 8Medium: 11Low: 14

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Blackheath?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Blackheath. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Blackheath?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Blackheath is Rowley Regis Rail Station, 550 m away in a straight line.

  • Rowley Regis Rail Station Railway station 550 mWalk
  • Old Hill Rail Station Railway station 1.4 kmCycle
  • Langley Green Rail Station Railway station 2.9 kmCycle

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Blackheath?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Blackheath. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Blackheath safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 3,338 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Blackheath over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 262 September 2025
  2. 283 October 2025
  3. 235 November 2025
  4. 296 December 2025
  5. 248 January 2026
  6. 229 February 2026
  7. 313 March 2026
  8. 254 April 2026
  9. 301 May 2026
  10. 279 June 2026
  11. 351 July 2026
  12. 287 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences1,440 reports
Shoplifting604 reports
Vehicle crime244 reports
Criminal damage and arson199 reports
Public order182 reports
Other theft158 reports
Burglary133 reports
Anti-social behaviour92 reports

Also: drugs 80, other crime 74, possession of weapons 70, robbery 48, theft from the person 10, bicycle theft 4.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Blackheath?

Councils
Sandwell (163) and Dudley (2)
Parliamentary constituencies
Smethwick (162), Halesowen (2) and West Bromwich (1)
Police force area
West Midlands
Region
West Midlands
Country
England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Moving to Blackheath

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Blackheath is in Sandwell; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.

Who to tell when moving house: the full list Moving house checklist

Blackheath postcodes

165 postcodes in use in Blackheath, by district:

B65 postcode district,165 postcodes

That district is in the B postcode area.

Check a Blackheath postcode

Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.

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Places near Blackheath

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Blackheath's £210,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Cradley Heath2.1 km, £225,000Rowley Regis2.2 km, £222,500Oldbury2.3 km, £233,500Halesowen2.7 km, £259,250Dudley4.5 km, £210,000Smethwick4.7 km, £210,000Brierley Hill5.6 km, £207,500Tipton6.3 km, £208,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Blackheath

What is it like to live in Blackheath?
Homes sold for a typical £210,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 7.7% on the 12 months before. At 154 of the 162 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 19 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3 of its 165 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Rowley Regis, 550 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Blackheath?
Blackheath is covered by postcode district B65, across 165 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Blackheath?
Homes in Blackheath sold for a typical £210,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 51 sales, up 7.7% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Blackheath?
In Blackheath, primary schools at its postcodes include Blackheath Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is St Michael's Church of England High School, 800 metres away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Blackheath have a railway station?
Yes: Rowley Regis is 550 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Blackheath, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Blackheath?
Ofcom reports on 162 of the 165 postcodes in Blackheath. At 154 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Blackheath at risk of flooding?
3 of the 165 postcodes in Blackheath have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 19 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Blackheath?
4 of the 165 postcodes now in use in Blackheath came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 73 homes sold in Blackheath were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the B65 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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