RIVERSIDE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE, B98 7SY House Prices & Local Information

B98 7SY is an accessible, working-class neighbourhood on Riverside Industrial Estate, 0.4km from Park Farm in Redditch. Administratively it sits within Greenlands ward and the Redditch constituency.

An affordable area with active regeneration, B98 7SY is a mixed area of service workers, students and families in semi-detached housing. The daytime character shifts — manufacturing, energy and utilities. The 36 average age reflects a mixed, mid-career community — settling down but not yet slowing down. 54% 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. 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 B98 7SY are sourced from Output Area E00164519 (shared with 15 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.