B2 postcode district: Birmingham and around

B2 is a postcode district in England, with 289 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Birmingham. Its council is Birmingham.

Postcodes in use
289
Sectors
3
Council
Birmingham

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in B2, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in B2, by gigabit broadband Of the 289 postcodes in B2 that ONS places, 3 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 20 have some that can, 67 can all get it and 199 have no Ofcom figure. Places named: Ladywood, Newtown. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A38(M)A38A4540A5127 B2 2AB: no Ofcom figureB2 2SA: no Ofcom figureB2 4NB: no Ofcom figureB2 4ND: no Ofcom figureB2 4AA: gigabit for allB2 4AU: gigabit for allB2 4AY: gigabit for allB2 4BG: gigabit for allB2 4BJ: gigabit for allB2 4BQ: gigabit for allB2 4BW: gigabit for allB2 4DG: gigabit for allB2 4DH: gigabit for allB2 4EG: gigabit for allB2 4HD: gigabit for allB2 4JD: gigabit for allB2 4JH: gigabit for allB2 4LP: gigabit for allB2 4LS: gigabit for allB2 4NS: gigabit for allB2 4NU: gigabit for allB2 4PY: gigabit for allB2 4QJ: gigabit for allB2 4RF: gigabit for allB2 4RQ: gigabit for allB2 4RS: gigabit for allB2 4RX: gigabit for allB2 4SH: gigabit for allB2 4SJ: gigabit for allB2 4SP: gigabit for allB2 4SR: gigabit for allB2 4SW: gigabit for allB2 4TX: gigabit for allB2 4UB: gigabit for allB2 4UG: gigabit for allB2 4UH: gigabit for allB2 4UQ: gigabit for allB2 4UU: gigabit for allB2 4UW: gigabit for allB2 5AE: gigabit for allB2 5AF: gigabit for allB2 5AL: gigabit for allB2 5BN: gigabit for allB2 5DB: gigabit for allB2 5DP: gigabit for allB2 5EP: gigabit for allB2 5ER: gigabit for allB2 5HG: gigabit for allB2 5HU: gigabit for allB2 5LS: gigabit for allB2 5NY: gigabit for allB2 5PG: gigabit for allB2 5PP: gigabit for allB2 5QB: gigabit for allB2 5QJ: gigabit for allB2 5QP: gigabit for allB2 5RE: gigabit for allB2 5SN: gigabit for allB2 5ST: gigabit for allB2 5TB: gigabit for allB2 5TJ: gigabit for allB2 5TX: gigabit for allB2 4HS: gigabit for allB2 4BA: some gigabitB2 4BF: some gigabitB2 4BH: some gigabitB2 4BL: some gigabitB2 4BS: some gigabitB2 4BT: some gigabitB2 4DU: some gigabitB2 4EU: some gigabitB2 4JQ: some gigabitB2 4LE: some gigabitB2 4RN: some gigabitB2 5AR: some gigabitB2 5BG: some gigabitB2 5EE: some gigabitB2 5LG: some gigabitB2 5RS: some gigabitB2 5UG: some gigabitB2 4BB: no gigabitB2 4DN: no gigabitB2 4QA: no gigabit LadywoodNewtown Map of every postcode in B2, by gigabit broadband Of the 289 postcodes in B2 that ONS places, 3 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 20 have some that can, 67 can all get it and 199 have no Ofcom figure. Places named: Ladywood, Newtown. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A38A4540 LadywoodNewtown
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 3
  • Some can get gigabit: 20
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 67
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 199

Of the 289 postcodes in B2 that ONS places, 3 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 20 have some that can, 67 can all get it and 199 have no Ofcom figure.

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 52.4879, longitude -1.8972. 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; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 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

Postcodes without gigabit

What broadband can you get in B2?

Ofcom reports on 90 of the 289 postcodes in B2. At 67 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit67 of 90
Postcodes where every home can get superfast68 of 90

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 checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is B2 at risk of flooding?

None of the 289 postcodes in B2 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 B2?

HM Land Registry records 4 sales of homes in B2 in the 12 months to August 2026: too few to give a typical price.

  • Flat or maisonette 4 sales, too few to price

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 B2

Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.

UK postcode format explained

Places in B2

Towns and villages with postcodes in B2, and how many each has here.

Who covers B2

How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.

Councils

What council am I in?

Constituencies

  • Birmingham Ladywood289

Police force areas

  • West Midlands289

Next to B2

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after B2 in the B area.

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