Sandwell

18°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 20° / 11° · 74% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 16° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:35Sunset 19:32

12h 57m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

5US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Birmingham Ladywood, United Kingdom

319 reported · July 2026▲ 20% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences138
• Public order32
• Vehicle crime32
• Criminal damage & arson29

14 stop & searches · mostly offensive weapons

Neighbourhood team: Oldbury Team · West Midlands

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

614 reported road collisions (2024)

138 killed or seriously injured · 811 casualties · 18 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 383 rated 4–5 ★ (274 top)
• 29 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: Sandwell and Dudley (0.8 km)
• 49 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£205,743 average▲ 0.6% YoY

Across Sandwell · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£947 average monthly rent▲ 7.8% YoY

• 1 bed £677
• 2 bed £846
• 3 bed £1,008

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

6.5× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 6.5 times median annual pay (6.6× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 135.8p · AppleGreen (1.8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (1.8 km)

75 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

84 charging locations within ~8 km

• 35 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: Western Custody Suite (0.8 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres4
• Gyms6
• Swimming pools1
• Sports pitches60
• Playgrounds61

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• Jack and the Beanstalk comes to West Bromwich Town Hall this December· 10 Sept 2026
• Sandwell Council fraud investigations protect more than £4 million of public money· 8 Sept 2026
• Sandwell businesses donate life-saving bleed control kits and defibrillator to boost safety· 8 Sept 2026
• Explore Sandwell Valley your way with new Tramper mobility scooter· 8 Sept 2026
• Sandwell Council launches crackdown on Forge Lane fly-tipping hotspot with offenders identified· 4 Sept 2026

Source: Sandwell Council

341,834 residents in Sandwell · 3,995/km²

• Under 16: 22%
• 16–64: 63%
• 65+: 15%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 8 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

20% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,244 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (43% of 136,760)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

133 schools · 62,586 pupils

93 primary · 22 secondary · 18 other

Ofsted: 49 of 55 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (89%)

123inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Sandwell

326 CQC-registered services

• Care homes94
• GP practices50
• Dentists55
• Homecare agencies91
• Hospitals & hospices10

CQC ratings: 82% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Sandwell

• Not in the Green Belt
• 42 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

201 applications decided

82.6% granted · 166 granted, 35 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Reform UK majority

• Lab 28
• Grn 2
• Ref 41
• Oth 1

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools17
• GPs & clinics7
• Pharmacies4
• Supermarkets3
• Parks & greens865
• Restaurants & cafés41

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

11,870 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

62 jobs advertised · £34,537 avg

e.g. Amazon Now E-Bike Delivery Partner - Earn £13 - £15 per hour*, Teaching Assistant, Psychology Graduate TA

Source: Adzuna

£671 median full-time weekly pay

6.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£17,273 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

41% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 152,657 certificates

18.5% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Life expectancy: 81.8 yrs women · 76.8 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 51.3 women · 52.7 men

75% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.4
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.5
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.8

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in West Bromwich:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s354 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office287 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership227 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test213 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Raise Human Rights Issues in Azad Kashmir with the Government of Pakistan 147 local signatures · 19,618 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

• Albion railway station (England) · 0.5 km

  Albion railway station was a railway station in England, built by the London and North Western Railway on their Stour Valley Line in 1852. It served the town of Oldbury, and was located near to Union Road.

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  Shri Venkateswara (Balaji) Temple · 0.6 km

  The Shri Venkateswara (Balaji) Temple is a Hindu temple located on a 30-acre (12 ha) site in Tividale, a suburb of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. It is dedicated in the Vaishnava tradition to Venkateswara, a form o…

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  Gower Branch Canal · 0.7 km

  The Gower Branch Canal is a half-mile canal at Tividale in England, linking Albion Junction on the Birmingham Level of the Birmingham Canal Navigations, and Brades Hall Junction on the BCN's older Wolverhampton (473 f…

• Greets Green · 0.8 km

  Greets Green is a residential area of West Bromwich in the West Midlands of England. The appropriate Sandwell ward is called Greets Green and Lyng. The population taken at the 2011 census was 11,769. It was mostly de…

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  Sandwell & Dudley railway station · 0.8 km

  Sandwell & Dudley is a railway station serving Sandwell and Dudley, in the West Midlands, England. It lies on the Birmingham Loop of the West Coast Main Line. The station is located in the Oldbury area of Sandwell.

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  Sandwell · 0.9 km

  Sandwell is a metropolitan borough of the West Midlands county in England. The borough is named after Sandwell Priory, and spans a densely populated part of the West Midlands conurbation. Sandwell Metropolitan Borough…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)