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On Sytch Lane, in Wombourne Outer, Swindon & Seisdon
What it's like at WV5 0JR: every home that has sold on Sytch Lane 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Sytch Lane; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 52 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 28, Sytch LaneDetached | Sept 2022 | £375,000 | 92 m² | £4,076/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30, Sytch LaneDetached | Oct 2025 | £300,000 | 90 m² | £3,333/m² | 1 |
| 38, Sytch LaneDetached | Jun 1998 | £89,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 42, Sytch LaneSemi-detached | Nov 2022 | £175,000 | 70 m² | £2,500/m² | 1 |
| 44, Sytch LaneSemi-detached | Nov 2024 | £270,000 | 77 m² | £3,506/m² | 2 |
| 46, Sytch LaneSemi-detached | Feb 2026 | £247,000 | 89 m² | £2,775/m² | 3 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Coseley, a drive away (7.4 km), with 520k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Sytch Lane, 250 m away, with a bus about every 30 minutes on weekdays (route 15); 16 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
Work usually means a journey: the nearest place with 5,000 or more jobs is about 50 minutes away by public transport (16 by car).
This is car country: only 8% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Blakeley Heath Primary School, a few minutes' walk (under 50 m); 81% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Wombourne High School, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 42.1 · 3.7% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Wolverhampton Girls' High School (7.8 km).
Few families with young children: only 13% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Sainsburys, 1.1 km away, with The Local Store closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Dale Medical Practice (750 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Barbershop is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Russells Hall Hospital, 7.0 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).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 20 restaurants and cafés, 19 pubs and bars.
Francessca's is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Waggon And Horses the nearest pub (750 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 55 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
There are 104 listed buildings.
Detached houses make up 49% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1965-1972.
It's growing: about 157 new homes were completed in 2021–2025.
The nearest park is Himley Park, 1.6 km away; for exercise, Wombourne Leisure Centre (1.1 km).
The air is clean: background nitrogen dioxide is 6.5 µg/m³, among the lowest in the country.
For holidays, Birmingham is 32 km away.
10 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%.
8 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 WV5 0JR →
Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 49% 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.
On this street: 0 of 43 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 | 1.1% | 1.1% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.7% | 1.1% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 87.6% | 90.5% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 7.3% | 4.7% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 3.9% | 3.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 0.2% | 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.
Nearest: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 89 min
Nearest: Little Lakes Golf Club · about 31 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in South Staffordshire 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 52 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.