Walsall

What is it like to live in Walsall?

Homes sold for a typical £215,000 in the 12 months to August 2026. 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 22 primary schools, 7 secondary schools and 3 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 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, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £205,000 from 568 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £435,000 85 sales
• Semi-detached £257,000 105 sales
• Terraced £162,000 119 sales
• Flat or maisonette £109,000 50 sales

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

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

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.

Source: 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. 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: 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- Kumar Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01922 858979 400 mWalk
• Brace Street Hc- Mahbub (M91659) Care Quality Commission rating: Inadequate CQC report November 2023 · Phone 01922 631630 400 mWalk
• Brace Street Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 01922 624605 400 mWalk
• Little London Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2026 · Phone 01922 628280 600 mWalk
• Saddlers Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01922 622326 750 mWalk

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

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.

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 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