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On Essex Avenue, in Kingswinford South
What it's like at DY6 9RH: every home that has sold on Essex Avenue 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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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
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 Essex Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 23 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | May 2014 | £190,000 | 141 m² | £1,348/m² | 3 |
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| 2, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2025 | £350,000 | 103 m² | £3,398/m² | 2 |
| 3, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2016 | £262,500 | 105 m² | £2,500/m² | 2 |
| 7, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | May 2026 | £345,000 | 96 m² | £3,594/m² | 2 |
| 8, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2025 | £290,000 | 86 m² | £3,372/m² | 2 |
| 9, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 2013 | £213,000 | 108 m² | £1,972/m² | 1 |
| 10, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 1998 | £77,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2025 | £305,000 | 89 m² | £3,427/m² | 1 |
| 14, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2022 | £320,000 | 96 m² | £3,333/m² | 1 |
| 16, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Nov 2022 | £325,000 | 92 m² | £3,533/m² | 1 |
| 18, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2003 | £158,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 19, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2024 | £330,000 | 126 m² | £2,619/m² | 2 |
| 21, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Dec 1996 | £72,950 | – | – | 2 |
| 24, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2022 | £275,000 | 100 m² | £2,750/m² | 1 |
| 25, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2025 | £270,000 | 81 m² | £3,333/m² | 2 |
| 28, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | May 2021 | £261,500 | 89 m² | £2,938/m² | 1 |
| 30, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2019 | £322,000 | 121 m² | £2,661/m² | 2 |
| 31, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | May 2012 | £190,000 | 101 m² | £1,881/m² | 2 |
| 33, Essex AvenueTerraced | Jul 2009 | £174,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 34, Essex AvenueDetached | Jun 2016 | £352,250 | 129 m² | £2,731/m² | 3 |
| 35, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 1995 | £54,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 37, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Aug 2018 | £210,000 | 73 m² | £2,877/m² | 1 |
| 40, Essex AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 1996 | £65,000 | 75 m² | £867/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 (4.8 km), with 379k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Kidderminster.
The nearest bus stop is Oak Street, 400 m away, with a bus about every 21 minutes on weekdays (routes 226, 17, 226A).
The nearest primary school is Glynne Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (650 m); 75% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Summerhill School, 400 m away; Attainment 8: 51.6 · 9.6% 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, 800 m away, with S&F News and Food closer still (400 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Summerhill Surgery (650 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (850 m).
For a haircut, Amathus is 2.9 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.
Sommai Thai is the closest café or restaurant (350 m), and The Woodman the nearest pub (350 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 King George V Park, 1.4 km away; for exercise, Fortnock Health Club (1.5 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.
17 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 9RH →
On this street: 0 of 18 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.
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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 23 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
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