Birmingham
Birmingham is covered by postcode districts B14, B23, B29, B31, B32, B37 and 48 more. It is mostly in the Birmingham council area: 19,310 of its 20,747 postcodes. The others are in Solihull, Bromsgrove, Sandwell and 2 others. 206 of its 20,747 postcodes are in Worcestershire and Warwickshire. ONS lists no county for the other 20,541.
Every postcode in Birmingham, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 267
- At medium risk at worst: 227
- At low risk at worst: 358
- At very low risk only: 119
- Not on the at-risk list: 19,776
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 20,747 postcodes in Birmingham that ONS places, 267 have a home or business at high risk, 227 are at medium risk at worst, 358 are at low risk at worst, 119 are at very low risk only and 19,776 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.4696, longitude -1.8850. 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
267 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 85 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. B5 7HP, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 71 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. B35 7HY, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 34 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. B36 8QG, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 32 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. B6 7DG, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 18 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. B36 8UD, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 12 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. B6 7SJ, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Birmingham?
Homes sold for a typical £231,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 17,205 of the 19,930 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 5,655 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 971 of its 20,747 postcodes. It has at least 283 primary schools, 106 secondary schools and 13 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Bordesley, 550 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 Birmingham?
Homes in Birmingham sold for a typical £231,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 6,747 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £230,000 from 9,711 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £385,000 566 sales
- Semi-detached £260,000 2,495 sales
- Terraced £215,000 2,635 sales
- Flat or maisonette £140,000 1,051 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole B31 district, Birmingham's main postcode district: a typical £234,250.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Birmingham: 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 Birmingham?
833 of the 20,747 postcodes now in use in Birmingham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 621 of the 9,711 homes sold in Birmingham were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the B31 district, 10%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Birmingham | Across the B31 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 106 of 6,747 (2%) | 7 of 530 (1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 621 of 9,711 (6%) | 74 of 774 (10%) |
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 Birmingham?
Ofcom reports on 19,930 of the 20,747 postcodes in Birmingham. At 17,205 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 3 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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Birmingham at risk of flooding?
971 of the 20,747 postcodes in Birmingham 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 5,655 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
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 Birmingham?
The open schools at the postcodes in Birmingham (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). 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
- Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist School350 m 138 pupils, 218 places
- St Anne's Catholic Primary School400 m 192 pupils, 210 places
- Chandos Primary School550 m 449 pupils, 468 places
- Lift Percy Shurmer800 m 459 pupils, 460 places
- Christ Church CofE Controlled Primary School and Nursery950 m 188 pupils, 236 places
- Regents Park Community Primary School1.1 km 398 pupils, 450 places
- Heath Mount Primary School1.1 km 290 pupils, 420 places
- St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School1.2 km 245 pupils, 210 places
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.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Birmingham?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Birmingham is Bordesley Rail Station, 550 m away in a straight line.
- Bordesley Rail Station Railway station 550 mWalk
- Birmingham Moor Street Rail Station Railway station 1.2 kmWalk
- Birmingham New Street Rail Station Railway station 1.4 kmCycle
- Digbeth High Street (West Midlands Metro) Underground, metro or tram 650 mWalk
- Meriden Street (West Midlands Metro) Underground, metro or tram 1.0 kmWalk
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 Birmingham?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Birmingham, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Highgate Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 0345 245 0751 600 mWalk
- The Wand Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 0121 440 1561 650 mWalk
- Babylon Gp at Hand Birmingham Phone 0330 808 2217 1.0 kmWalk
- Bellevue Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2026 · Phone 0121 728 8540 1.2 kmWalk
- The Balaji Surgery, the Sparkbrook Chc Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2021, over 3 years old · Phone 0121 334 0200 1.2 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Birmingham safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 16,530 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Birmingham 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
- 1,367 September 2025
- 1,330 October 2025
- 1,407 November 2025
- 1,335 December 2025
- 1,258 January 2026
- 1,283 February 2026
- 1,361 March 2026
- 1,330 April 2026
- 1,463 May 2026
- 1,420 June 2026
- 1,535 July 2026
- 1,441 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 540, robbery 452, possession of weapons 419, theft from the person 411, other crime 202, bicycle theft 97.
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 postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Birmingham?
- Councils
- Birmingham (19,310), Solihull (1,145), Bromsgrove (205) and 3 others
- County councils
- Worcestershire (205) and Warwickshire (1)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Birmingham Ladywood (3,924), Birmingham Erdington (2,245), Birmingham Northfield (2,202) and 14 others
- Police force areas
- West Midlands (20,541), West Mercia (205) and Warwickshire (1)
- Region
- West Midlands
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to Birmingham
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Birmingham is in Birmingham; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Birmingham about council tax Council tax, on birmingham.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Birmingham
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Birmingham postcodes
20,747 postcodes in use in Birmingham, by district:
Those districts are all in the B postcode area.
Check a Birmingham postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Birmingham
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Birmingham's £231,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Birmingham
- What is the postcode for Birmingham?
- Postcode districts B14, B23, B29, B31, B32, B37 and 48 more, with 20,747 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Birmingham?
- A typical £231,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 6,747 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Birmingham?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist School, St Anne's Catholic Primary School and Chandos Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Ark St Alban's Academy, Camp Hill Education and Heritage Academy. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Birmingham have a railway station?
- Yes: Bordesley station, 550 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Birmingham?
- Ofcom reports on 19,930 of the 20,747 postcodes in Birmingham. At 17,205 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 3 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
- Is Birmingham at risk of flooding?
- 971 of the 20,747 postcodes in Birmingham 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 5,655 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 Birmingham?
- 833 of the 20,747 postcodes now in use in Birmingham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 621 of the 9,711 homes sold in Birmingham were newly built (6%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the B31 district, 10%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
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.
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