B1 postcode district: Birmingham and around
B1 is a postcode district in England, with 319 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Birmingham. Its council is Birmingham.
- Postcodes in use
- 319
- Sectors
- 3
- Council
- Birmingham
- Places
- Birmingham
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Every postcode in B1, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 0
- At medium risk at worst: 0
- At low risk at worst: 0
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 319
Of the 319 postcodes in B1 that ONS places, 319 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.4797, longitude -1.9095. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them
What broadband can you get in B1?
Ofcom reports on 299 of the 319 postcodes in B1. At 212 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is B1 at risk of flooding?
None of the 319 postcodes in B1 is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What do homes sell for in B1?
Homes in B1 sold for a typical £165,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 64 sales, down 29.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached 1 sale, too few to price
- Terraced £210,000 5 sales
- Flat or maisonette £161,250 58 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Postcodes in B1
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in B1
Towns and villages with postcodes in B1, and how many each has here.
Who covers B1
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
- Birmingham319
Constituencies
- Birmingham Ladywood319
Police force areas
- West Midlands319
Next to B1
"Next to" is by number: the district after B1 in the B area.
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