HIGH RIDGE, WS9 0DS House Prices & Local Information

WS9 0DS is an accessible, working-class neighbourhood on High Ridge, 0.7km from Pool Green in Aldridge. Administratively it sits within Aldridge Central and South ward and the Aldridge-Brownhills constituency.

An affordable area with active regeneration, WS9 0DS is a striving suburban area — non-UK born households working to get ahead. The daytime character shifts — manufacturing, transport, and it with higher status mix. An average age of 35 points to a young professional and early-career population — ambitious, mobile, and predominantly renting. 30% of homes are socially rented, reflecting the area's public housing provision and council presence.

Safety: Crime rates are low here at 23 incidents per 1,000 residents — well below average and reassuring for families. Property: Average house prices are around £185k. The Index of Multiple Deprivation places this area in the most deprived 20% nationally — this often means more affordable prices and active local authority investment, but also fewer amenities and higher benefit dependency.

Census 2021 statistics for WS9 0DS are sourced from Output Area E00051764 (shared with 6 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.