Brownhills

What is it like to live in Brownhills?

Homes sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 349 of the 404 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 407 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 8 primary schools and 2 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Shenstone, 5.8 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Brownhills?

Homes in Brownhills sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 195 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £220,000 from 252 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £322,500 50 sales
• Semi-detached £220,000 95 sales
• Terraced £200,000 31 sales
• Flat or maisonette £132,000 19 sales

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

Across the whole WS8 district, Brownhills's main postcode district: a typical £217,498.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Brownhills: 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 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Brownhills?

11 of the 407 postcodes now in use in Brownhills came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 252 homes sold in Brownhills were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WS8 district, 0%.

The newest postcodes

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

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Brownhills?

Ofcom reports on 404 of the 407 postcodes in Brownhills. At 349 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Brownhills at risk of flooding?

None of the 407 postcodes in Brownhills is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Brownhills?

The open schools at the postcodes in Brownhills (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Brownhills?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Brownhills is Shenstone Rail Station, 5.8 km away in a straight line.

• Shenstone Rail Station Railway station 5.8 kmDrive
• Bloxwich Rail Station Railway station 6.1 kmDrive
• Bloxwich North Rail Station Railway station 6.2 kmDrive

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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Brownhills?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Brownhills, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Holland Park Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report August 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01543 378594 950 mWalk
• Parkside Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 01543 728748 950 mWalk
• New Road Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01543 375475 1.0 kmWalk
• Streets Corner Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01543 377285 1.4 kmCycle
• Walsall Wood Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report January 2026 · Phone 01543 361452 1.4 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Brownhills safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,801 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Brownhills 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

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: other crime 43, robbery 35, drugs 25, possession of weapons 23, theft from the person 13, bicycle theft 13.

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.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Brownhills?

Councils

Walsall (404) and Lichfield (3)

Parliamentary constituencies

Aldridge-Brownhills (404) and Lichfield (3)

Police force areas

West Midlands (404) and Staffordshire (3)

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: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.