Kingswinford
Kingswinford is covered by postcode districts DY5, DY6 and DY8. It is mostly in the Dudley council area: 1,213 of its 1,215 postcodes. The others are in South Staffordshire. 2 of its 1,215 postcodes are in Staffordshire. ONS lists no county for the other 1,213.
Every postcode in Kingswinford, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 3
- At medium risk at worst: 4
- At low risk at worst: 11
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 1,197
Of the 1,215 postcodes in Kingswinford that ONS places, 3 have a home or business at high risk, 4 are at medium risk at worst, 11 are at low risk at worst and 1,197 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 52.4929, longitude -2.1594. 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.
What is it like to live in Kingswinford?
Homes sold for a typical £255,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 2.2% on the 12 months before. At 1,130 of the 1,196 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 20 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 18 of its 1,215 postcodes. It has at least 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Stourbridge Town, 4.3 km 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 Kingswinford?
Homes in Kingswinford sold for a typical £255,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 553 sales, up 2.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £355,500 136 sales
- Semi-detached £250,000 280 sales
- Terraced £227,250 94 sales
- Flat or maisonette £140,000 43 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole DY6 district, Kingswinford's main postcode district: a typical £280,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Kingswinford: 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 Kingswinford?
22 of the 1,215 postcodes now in use in Kingswinford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 750 homes sold in Kingswinford were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DY6 district, 6%.
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
| Period | In Kingswinford | Across the DY6 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 553 (0%) | 0 of 306 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 1 of 750 (Under 1%) | 25 of 451 (6%) |
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 Kingswinford?
Ofcom reports on 1,196 of the 1,215 postcodes in Kingswinford. At 1,130 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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Kingswinford at risk of flooding?
18 of the 1,215 postcodes in Kingswinford 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 20 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
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 Kingswinford?
The open schools at the postcodes in Kingswinford (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.
Primary
- Bromley Hills Primary School450 m 282 pupils, 315 places
- The Brier School550 m 219 pupils, 203 places
- Crestwood Park Primary School850 m 210 pupils, 210 places
- Glynne Primary School950 m 474 pupils, 420 places
- Dingle Community Primary School1.0 km 188 pupils, 210 places
- St Mary's CofE Primary School1.1 km 170 pupils, 242 places
- Fairhaven Primary School1.1 km 251 pupils, 315 places
- Blanford Mere Primary School1.2 km 311 pupils, 315 places
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 Kingswinford?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Kingswinford is Stourbridge Town Rail Station, 4.3 km away in a straight line.
- Stourbridge Town Rail Station Railway station 4.3 kmCycle
- Lye (West Midlands) Rail Station Railway station 4.7 kmCycle
- Stourbridge Junction Rail Station Railway station 5.3 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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Kingswinford?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Kingswinford, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Kingswinford Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01384 271241 600 mWalk
- Rangeways Road Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2025 · Phone 01384 366166 900 mWalk
- The Summerhill Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2025 · Phone 01384 273275 900 mWalk
- Moss Grove Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2026 · Phone 01384 277377 950 mWalk
- Wordsley Green Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01384 277591 1.4 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Kingswinford safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,507 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Kingswinford 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
- 141 September 2025
- 138 October 2025
- 119 November 2025
- 117 December 2025
- 106 January 2026
- 131 February 2026
- 116 March 2026
- 121 April 2026
- 130 May 2026
- 130 June 2026
- 129 July 2026
- 129 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 37, drugs 33, possession of weapons 28, robbery 9, theft from the person 7, bicycle theft 2.
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 postcodeSource: 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 Kingswinford?
- Councils
- Dudley (1,213) and South Staffordshire (2)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Kingswinford and South Staffordshire (846), Dudley (256) and Stourbridge (113)
- Police force areas
- West Midlands (1,213) and Staffordshire (2)
- 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 Kingswinford
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Kingswinford is in Dudley; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Dudley about council tax Council tax, on dudley.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Kingswinford
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Kingswinford postcodes
1,215 postcodes in use in Kingswinford, by district:
Those districts are all in the DY postcode area.
Check a Kingswinford 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 Kingswinford
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Kingswinford's £255,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Kingswinford
- What is it like to live in Kingswinford?
- Homes sold for a typical £255,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 2.2% on the 12 months before. At 1,130 of the 1,196 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 20 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 18 of its 1,215 postcodes. It has at least 7 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Stourbridge Town, 4.3 km 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 Kingswinford?
- Kingswinford is covered by postcode districts DY5, DY6 and DY8, across 1,215 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Kingswinford?
- Homes in Kingswinford sold for a typical £255,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 553 sales, up 2.2% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Kingswinford?
- In Kingswinford, primary schools at its postcodes include Bromley Hills Primary School, The Brier School and Crestwood Park Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include The Brier School, The Crestwood School and Kingswinford Academy. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Kingswinford have a railway station?
- The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Kingswinford is Stourbridge Town, 4.3 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Kingswinford?
- Ofcom reports on 1,196 of the 1,215 postcodes in Kingswinford. At 1,130 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Kingswinford at risk of flooding?
- 18 of the 1,215 postcodes in Kingswinford 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 20 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 Kingswinford?
- 22 of the 1,215 postcodes now in use in Kingswinford came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 1 of the 750 homes sold in Kingswinford were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DY6 district, 6%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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