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On The Portway, in Kingswinford South
What it's like at DY6 8HL: every home that has sold on The Portway since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on The Portway; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 65 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 38, The PortwaySemi-detached | Jul 2026 | £185,000 | 82 m² | £2,256/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 40, The PortwaySemi-detached | Dec 2006 | £137,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 42, The PortwaySemi-detached | Dec 2001 | £66,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 44, The PortwaySemi-detached | Jan 2016 | £142,000 | 71 m² | £2,000/m² | 5 |
| 46, The PortwayFlat | Jul 2017 | £55,000 | 47 m² | £1,170/m² | 1 |
| 46a, The PortwayFlat | Jul 2006 | £61,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 49, The PortwaySemi-detached | Apr 2025 | £225,000 | 80 m² | £2,813/m² | 3 |
| 52, The PortwaySemi-detached | Oct 2005 | £113,000 | 90 m² | £1,256/m² | 2 |
| 53, The PortwaySemi-detached | May 2017 | £149,950 | 85 m² | £1,764/m² | 2 |
| 54, The PortwaySemi-detached | Jun 2004 | £99,950 | 107 m² | £934/m² | 3 |
| 56, The PortwaySemi-detached | Aug 2025 | £255,000 | 108 m² | £2,361/m² | 2 |
| 59, The PortwayTerraced | Dec 2015 | £133,000 | 87 m² | £1,529/m² | 5 |
| 61, The PortwayTerraced | Sept 2022 | £205,500 | 82 m² | £2,506/m² | 4 |
| 67, The PortwaySemi-detached | Mar 2026 | £245,000 | 85 m² | £2,882/m² | 4 |
| 71, The PortwaySemi-detached | Feb 2008 | £93,000 | 68 m² | £1,368/m² | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Stourbridge Town, a drive away (4.3 km), with 379k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Kidderminster.
The nearest bus stop is Beech Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 30 minutes on weekdays (route 15); 37 departures an hour from the 12 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Bromley Hills Primary School, a few minutes' walk (500 m); 54% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is The Crestwood School, 700 m away; Attainment 8: 38.9 · 4.2% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Wolverhampton Girls' High School (11.2 km) and King Edward VI Five Ways School (13 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 300 m away; Granville Convenience Store (450 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Kingswinford Medical Practice (650 m), with Kingswinford Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (650 m).
For a haircut, RnL Gentlemen's Barbers is 2.3 km away.
The nearest full A&E is Russells Hall Hospital, 3.5 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 73% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 63% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 13 weeks).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 8 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
Little Taste of Heaven Courtyard is the closest café or restaurant (550 m), and The Portway the nearest pub (300 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 40 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 4% flats and 38% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Lapwood Avenue Open Space, 950 m away; for exercise, Fortnock Health Club (1.4 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 8.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 29 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 53% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 28% are 65 or over.
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
27 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Kingswinford and South Staffordshire constituency: Mike Wood MP (Conservative), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 6,303 (14.0%), turnout 63%. Vote shares: Conservative 40%, Labour 26%, Reform UK 22%, Liberal Democrat 5%.
9 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near DY6 8HL →
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Dudley since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 65 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
Nearest: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 81 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 49 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 0.8% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 97.4% | 93.2% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 2.3% | 6.3% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 0.1% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.