Walsall
Walsall is covered by postcode districts B43, WS1, WS2, WS3, WS4 and WS5. It is in the Walsall council area, England.
Every postcode in Walsall, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 15
- At medium risk at worst: 64
- At low risk at worst: 14
- At very low risk only: 4
- Not on the at-risk list: 1,305
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 1,402 postcodes in Walsall that ONS places, 15 have a home or business at high risk, 64 are at medium risk at worst, 14 are at low risk at worst, 4 are at very low risk only and 1,305 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and 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 52.5804, longitude -1.9796. 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
15 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Walsall?
Homes sold for a typical £215,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 4.9% on the 12 months before. At 933 of the 1,317 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 683 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 97 of its 1,402 postcodes. It has 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes, or more. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Walsall, 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 Walsall?
Homes in Walsall sold for a typical £215,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 359 sales, up 4.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- 12 months to August 2025
- £205,000
- 12 months to August 2026
- £215,000
▲ up 4.9% on the 12 months before
Across the whole WS1 district, Walsall's main postcode district: a typical £171,500.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Walsall: 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 Walsall?
44 of the 1,402 postcodes now in use in Walsall came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 9 of the 568 homes sold in Walsall were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WS1 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
| Period | In Walsall | Across the WS1 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 359 (0%) | 0 of 132 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 9 of 568 (2%) | 0 of 174 (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 Walsall?
Ofcom reports on 1,317 of the 1,402 postcodes in Walsall. At 933 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 Walsall at risk of flooding?
97 of the 1,402 postcodes in Walsall 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 683 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 Walsall?
The open schools at the postcodes in Walsall (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
- Blue Coat Church of England Aided Infant School300 m 314 pupils, 296 places
- Blue Coat Church of England Aided Junior School400 m 366 pupils, 360 places
- Caldmore Primary Academy400 m 436 pupils, 412 places
- Mayfield Preparatory School600 m 178 pupils, 212 places
- St Mary's The Mount Catholic Primary School800 m 235 pupils, 210 places
- Palfrey Infant School800 m 310 pupils, 360 places
- Whitehall Nursery and Infant Academy850 m 313 pupils, 260 places
- Chuckery Primary School850 m 465 pupils, 479 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 Walsall?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Walsall is Walsall Rail Station, 550 m away in a straight line.
- Walsall Rail Station Railway station 550 mWalk
- Bescot Stadium Rail Station Railway station 2.1 kmCycle
- Darlaston Rail Station Railway station 2.8 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 Walsall?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Walsall, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Brace Street Hc- Kumar400 m
- Brace Street Hc- Mahbub (M91659)400 m
- Brace Street Health Centre400 m
- Little London Surgery600 m
- Saddlers Health Centre750 m
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Walsall safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 7,971 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Walsall 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
- 654 September 2025
- 685 October 2025
- 660 November 2025
- 573 December 2025
- 653 January 2026
- 603 February 2026
- 682 March 2026
- 653 April 2026
- 702 May 2026
- 634 June 2026
- 778 July 2026
- 694 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: anti-social behaviour 243, possession of weapons 177, robbery 174, other crime 113, theft from the person 106, bicycle theft 32.
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 Walsall?
- Council
- Walsall
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Walsall and Bloxwich (1,286) and Aldridge-Brownhills (116)
- 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 Walsall
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Walsall about council tax Council tax, on go.walsall.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Walsall
- 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 Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Walsall postcodes
1,402 postcodes in use in Walsall, by district:
Those districts are in the WS postcode area and B postcode area.
Check a Walsall 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 Walsall
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Walsall's £215,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Walsall
- What is it like to live in Walsall?
- Homes sold for a typical £215,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 4.9% on the 12 months before. At 933 of the 1,317 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 683 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 97 of its 1,402 postcodes. It has 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes, or more. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Walsall, 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 Walsall?
- Walsall is covered by postcode districts B43, WS1, WS2, WS3, WS4 and WS5, across 1,402 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- Which council is Walsall in?
- Walsall is in the Walsall council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Walsall?
- Homes in Walsall sold for a typical £215,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 359 sales, up 4.9% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Walsall?
- In Walsall, primary schools at its postcodes include Blue Coat Church of England Aided Infant School, Blue Coat Church of England Aided Junior School and Caldmore Primary Academy; secondary schools at its postcodes include The Ladder School, Blue Coat Church of England Academy and Walsall Studio School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Walsall have a railway station?
- Yes: Walsall is 550 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Walsall, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Walsall?
- Ofcom reports on 1,317 of the 1,402 postcodes in Walsall. At 933 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Walsall at risk of flooding?
- 97 of the 1,402 postcodes in Walsall 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 683 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 Walsall?
- 44 of the 1,402 postcodes now in use in Walsall came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 9 of the 568 homes sold in Walsall were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WS1 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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