West Bromwich

What is it like to live in West Bromwich?

Homes sold for a typical £240,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 1,809 of the 2,115 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 138 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 82 of its 2,151 postcodes. It has at least 26 primary schools and 9 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 Tame Bridge Parkway, 2.3 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 West Bromwich?

Homes in West Bromwich sold for a typical £240,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 541 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £230,000 from 781 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £347,500 76 sales
• Semi-detached £250,000 280 sales
• Terraced £215,000 129 sales
• Flat or maisonette £120,000 56 sales

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

Across the whole B70 district, West Bromwich's main postcode district: a typical £220,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in West Bromwich: 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 West Bromwich?

49 of the 2,151 postcodes now in use in West Bromwich came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 27 of the 781 homes sold in West Bromwich were newly built (3%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the B70 district, Under 1%.

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 West Bromwich?

Ofcom reports on 2,115 of the 2,151 postcodes in West Bromwich. At 1,809 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 West Bromwich at risk of flooding?

82 of the 2,151 postcodes in West Bromwich 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 138 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in West Bromwich?

The open schools at the postcodes in West Bromwich (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 West Bromwich?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in West Bromwich is Tame Bridge Parkway Rail Station, 2.3 km away in a straight line.

• Tame Bridge Parkway Rail Station Railway station 2.3 kmCycle
• Sandwell & Dudley Rail Station Railway station 3.2 kmCycle
• Bescot Stadium Rail Station Railway station 3.3 kmCycle
• Black Lake (West Midlands Metro) Underground, metro or tram 1.7 kmCycle
• Dudley Street Guns Village (West Midlands Metro) Underground, metro or tram 1.7 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in West Bromwich?

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

• Clifton Lane Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2025 · Phone 0121 588 7989 1.1 kmWalk
• Stone Cross Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 0121 588 2286 1.4 kmCycle
• Dr Gudi Pv & Partner Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2025 · Phone 0121 556 0455 1.7 kmCycle
• New Street Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 0121 556 0190 1.8 kmCycle
• Dr Arora Rk Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 0121 612 2222 2.1 kmCycle

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

Is West Bromwich safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 3,492 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in West Bromwich 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: drugs 102, other crime 88, possession of weapons 79, robbery 63, theft from the person 21, bicycle theft 16.

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 West Bromwich?

Councils

Sandwell (2,147) and Walsall (4)

Parliamentary constituencies

West Bromwich (1,454), Tipton and Wednesbury (680), Smethwick (13) and 1 other

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