Alvechurch

Alvechurch is covered by postcode district B48. It is in the Bromsgrove council area, Worcestershire.

Typical price £313,750 Homes sold in Alvechurch, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 60 of 85 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 2 of 85 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 9 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 2 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Alvechurch, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Alvechurch, by flood risk Of the 85 postcodes in Alvechurch that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk and 83 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Alvechurch. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A441M42 B48 7DH: not on the flood risk listB48 7JX: not on the flood risk listB48 7JY: not on the flood risk listB48 7LA: not on the flood risk listB48 7LD: not on the flood risk listB48 7LF: not on the flood risk listB48 7LG: not on the flood risk listB48 7LH: not on the flood risk listB48 7LL: not on the flood risk listB48 7LN: not on the flood risk listB48 7LP: not on the flood risk listB48 7LQ: not on the flood risk listB48 7LR: not on the flood risk listB48 7LS: not on the flood risk listB48 7LT: not on the flood risk listB48 7LU: not on the flood risk listB48 7LW: not on the flood risk listB48 7LX: not on the flood risk listB48 7LY: not on the flood risk listB48 7LZ: not on the flood risk listB48 7NA: not on the flood risk listB48 7NB: not on the flood risk listB48 7ND: not on the flood risk listB48 7NE: not on the flood risk listB48 7NF: not on the flood risk listB48 7NG: not on the flood risk listB48 7NH: not on the flood risk listB48 7NJ: not on the flood risk listB48 7NL: not on the flood risk listB48 7NN: not on the flood risk listB48 7NP: not on the flood risk listB48 7NQ: not on the flood risk listB48 7NR: not on the flood risk listB48 7NS: not on the flood risk listB48 7NT: not on the flood risk listB48 7NU: not on the flood risk listB48 7NW: not on the flood risk listB48 7NX: not on the flood risk listB48 7NY: not on the flood risk listB48 7NZ: not on the flood risk listB48 7PA: not on the flood risk listB48 7PB: not on the flood risk listB48 7PD: not on the flood risk listB48 7PE: not on the flood risk listB48 7PF: not on the flood risk listB48 7PG: not on the flood risk listB48 7PH: not on the flood risk listB48 7PJ: not on the flood risk listB48 7PL: not on the flood risk listB48 7PS: not on the flood risk listB48 7PT: not on the flood risk listB48 7PU: not on the flood risk listB48 7PW: not on the flood risk listB48 7PX: not on the flood risk listB48 7PY: not on the flood risk listB48 7PZ: not on the flood risk listB48 7QA: not on the flood risk listB48 7RD: not on the flood risk listB48 7RE: not on the flood risk listB48 7RG: not on the flood risk listB48 7RP: not on the flood risk listB48 7RR: not on the flood risk listB48 7RS: not on the flood risk listB48 7RU: not on the flood risk listB48 7RX: not on the flood risk listB48 7RY: not on the flood risk listB48 7RZ: not on the flood risk listB48 7SA: not on the flood risk listB48 7SB: not on the flood risk listB48 7SD: not on the flood risk listB48 7SE: not on the flood risk listB48 7SF: not on the flood risk listB48 7SQ: not on the flood risk listB48 7ST: not on the flood risk listB48 7SX: not on the flood risk listB48 7SZ: not on the flood risk listB48 7TA: not on the flood risk listB48 7TB: not on the flood risk listB48 7TD: not on the flood risk listB48 7TE: not on the flood risk listB48 7TF: not on the flood risk listB48 7TH: not on the flood risk listB48 7UA: not on the flood risk listB48 7DJ: high flood riskB48 7RT: high flood risk Alvechurch Map of every postcode in Alvechurch, by flood risk Of the 85 postcodes in Alvechurch that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk and 83 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Alvechurch. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A441M42 Alvechurch
  • A home or business at high risk: 2
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 83

Of the 85 postcodes in Alvechurch that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk and 83 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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.3512, longitude -1.9643. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

B48 7RT7 at high riskB48 7DJ2 at high risk

What is it like to live in Alvechurch?

Homes sold for a typical £313,750 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 60 of the 85 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 9 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 85 postcodes. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Barnt Green Surgery, 2.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Alvechurch, 600 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Alvechurch?

Homes in Alvechurch sold for a typical £313,750 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 36 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £385,000 from 66 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£313,750 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£385,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £410,000 5 sales
  • Semi-detached £370,000 18 sales
  • Terraced £241,750 12 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole B48 district, Alvechurch's main postcode district: a typical £387,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Alvechurch: 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 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Alvechurch?

None of the 85 postcodes now in use in Alvechurch came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 66 homes sold in Alvechurch were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the B48 district, 0%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn AlvechurchAcross the B48 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 36 (0%) 0 of 46 (0%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 66 (0%) 0 of 86 (0%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Alvechurch?

Ofcom reports on 85 of the 85 postcodes in Alvechurch. At 60 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit60 of 85
Postcodes where every home can get superfast78 of 85

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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Alvechurch at risk of flooding?

2 of the 85 postcodes in Alvechurch have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 9 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 2 of 85 postcodes High: 9Low: 4

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Alvechurch?

The open schools at the postcodes in Alvechurch. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Primary

Secondary

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Alvechurch?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Alvechurch is Alvechurch Rail Station, 600 m away in a straight line.

  • Alvechurch Rail Station Railway station 600 mWalk
  • Barnt Green Rail Station Railway station 2.2 kmCycle
  • Longbridge Rail Station Railway station 5.2 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Alvechurch?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Alvechurch. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Alvechurch safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 137 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Alvechurch over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 9 September 2025
  2. 12 October 2025
  3. 15 November 2025
  4. 7 December 2025
  5. 9 January 2026
  6. 6 February 2026
  7. 14 March 2026
  8. 13 April 2026
  9. 7 May 2026
  10. 11 June 2026
  11. 15 July 2026
  12. 19 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences50 reports
Anti-social behaviour17 reports
Criminal damage and arson13 reports
Burglary13 reports
Vehicle crime13 reports
Public order8 reports
Shoplifting8 reports
Other theft4 reports

Also: other crime 4, drugs 3, robbery 3, theft from the person 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Alvechurch?

District, borough or city council
Bromsgrove
County council
Worcestershire
Parliamentary constituency
Bromsgrove
Police force area
West Mercia
Region
West Midlands
Country
England
MP
Bradley Thomas (Conservative)

All 85 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

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Alvechurch postcodes

85 postcodes in use in Alvechurch, by district:

B48 postcode district,85 postcodes

That district is in the B postcode area.

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Places near Alvechurch

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Alvechurch's £313,750. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Barnt Green3.0 km, £650,000Catshill5.9 km, £340,000Redditch6.1 km, £260,000Wythall6.7 km, £380,000Bromsgrove6.8 km, £300,000Hollywood7.2 km, £372,500Dickens Heath9.4 km, £220,000Stoke Prior9.9 km, £302,500 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Alvechurch

What is the postcode for Alvechurch?
Postcode district B48, with 85 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Alvechurch in?
Bromsgrove, with Worcestershire as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Alvechurch?
Bradley Thomas (Conservative), for Bromsgrove. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Alvechurch?
A typical £313,750 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 36 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Alvechurch?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Crown Meadow First School & Nursery; secondary schools at its postcodes include Alvechurch CofE Middle School. Source: Department for Education.
Does Alvechurch have a railway station?
Yes: Alvechurch station, 600 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Alvechurch?
Ofcom reports on 85 of the 85 postcodes in Alvechurch. At 60 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Alvechurch at risk of flooding?
2 of the 85 postcodes in Alvechurch have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 9 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Alvechurch?
None of the 85 postcodes now in use in Alvechurch came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 66 homes sold in Alvechurch were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the B48 district, 0%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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