Royal Sutton Coldfield
Royal Sutton Coldfield is covered by postcode districts B23, B72, B73, B74, B75, B76 and 4 more. It is mostly in the Birmingham council area: 2,150 of its 2,152 postcodes. The others are in Lichfield. 2 of its 2,152 postcodes are in Staffordshire. ONS lists no county for the other 2,150.
Every postcode in Royal Sutton Coldfield, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 12
- At medium risk at worst: 3
- At low risk at worst: 6
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 2,131
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 2,152 postcodes in Royal Sutton Coldfield that ONS places, 12 have a home or business at high risk, 3 are at medium risk at worst, 6 are at low risk at worst and 2,131 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 160 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 52.5642, longitude -1.8235. 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
The postcodes at high 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
- 13 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. B73 6DR, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
Homes sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 0.2% on the 12 months before. At 1,690 of the 2,069 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 151 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 21 of its 2,152 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Sutton Coldfield, 150 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
Homes in Royal Sutton Coldfield sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,063 sales, up 0.2% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £536,000 368 sales
- Semi-detached £370,000 351 sales
- Terraced £306,000 147 sales
- Flat or maisonette £172,000 197 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole B75 district, Royal Sutton Coldfield's main postcode district: a typical £393,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Royal Sutton Coldfield: 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
Are new homes being built in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
51 of the 2,152 postcodes now in use in Royal Sutton Coldfield came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 54 of the 1,479 homes sold in Royal Sutton Coldfield were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the B75 district, 12%.
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 Royal Sutton Coldfield | Across the B75 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 8 of 1,063 (Under 1%) | 12 of 298 (4%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 54 of 1,479 (4%) | 53 of 458 (12%) |
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.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
Ofcom reports on 2,069 of the 2,152 postcodes in Royal Sutton Coldfield. At 1,690 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 Royal Sutton Coldfield at risk of flooding?
21 of the 2,152 postcodes in Royal Sutton Coldfield 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 151 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, 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
Which schools are in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
The open schools at the postcodes in Royal Sutton Coldfield (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.
Primary
- Town House Primary School750 m
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School1.1 km 357 pupils, 210 places
- Whitehouse Common Primary School1.2 km 445 pupils, 480 places
- Hollyfield Primary School1.4 km 399 pupils, 420 places
- Maney Hill Primary School1.5 km 421 pupils, 420 places
- St Nicholas Catholic Primary School1.9 km 210 pupils, 210 places
- Coppice Primary School1.9 km 415 pupils, 420 places
- Langley School1.9 km 137 pupils, 120 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Royal Sutton Coldfield?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Royal Sutton Coldfield is Sutton Coldfield Rail Station, 150 m away in a straight line.
- Sutton Coldfield Rail Station Railway station 150 mWalk
- Four Oaks Rail Station Railway station 1.8 kmCycle
- Wylde Green Rail Station Railway station 2.1 kmCycle
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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Royal Sutton Coldfield. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- The Manor Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 0121 354 2032 650 mWalk
- Sutton Coldfield Group Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 0121 323 3235 1.9 kmCycle
- The Hawthorns Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0121 373 2211 2.8 kmCycle
- Ashfield Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report September 2024 · Phone 0121 351 3238 3.1 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Royal Sutton Coldfield safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 2,030 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Royal Sutton Coldfield 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
- 190 September 2025
- 150 October 2025
- 145 November 2025
- 153 December 2025
- 134 January 2026
- 127 February 2026
- 186 March 2026
- 161 April 2026
- 217 May 2026
- 194 June 2026
- 174 July 2026
- 199 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: robbery 63, possession of weapons 42, drugs 32, other crime 28, theft from the person 26, bicycle theft 15.
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.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Royal Sutton Coldfield?
- Councils
- Birmingham (2,150) and Lichfield (2)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Sutton Coldfield (2,130), Birmingham Erdington (20) and Tamworth (2)
- Police force areas
- West Midlands (2,150) and Staffordshire (2)
- 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: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Royal Sutton Coldfield
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Royal Sutton Coldfield 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 Royal Sutton Coldfield
- 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
Royal Sutton Coldfield postcodes
2,152 postcodes in use in Royal Sutton Coldfield, by district:
Those districts are all in the B postcode area.
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Places near Royal Sutton Coldfield
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Royal Sutton Coldfield's £375,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Royal Sutton Coldfield
- What is it like to live in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
- Homes sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 0.2% on the 12 months before. At 1,690 of the 2,069 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 151 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 21 of its 2,152 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Sutton Coldfield, 150 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Royal Sutton Coldfield?
- Royal Sutton Coldfield is covered by postcode districts B23, B72, B73, B74, B75, B76 and 4 more, across 2,152 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
- Homes in Royal Sutton Coldfield sold for a typical £375,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 1,063 sales, up 0.2% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
- In Royal Sutton Coldfield, primary schools at its postcodes include Town House Primary School, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School and Whitehouse Common Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Bishop Vesey's Grammar School, Plantsbrook School and Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Royal Sutton Coldfield have a railway station?
- Yes: Sutton Coldfield is 150 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Royal Sutton Coldfield, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
- Ofcom reports on 2,069 of the 2,152 postcodes in Royal Sutton Coldfield. At 1,690 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Royal Sutton Coldfield at risk of flooding?
- 21 of the 2,152 postcodes in Royal Sutton Coldfield 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 151 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Royal Sutton Coldfield?
- 51 of the 2,152 postcodes now in use in Royal Sutton Coldfield came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 54 of the 1,479 homes sold in Royal Sutton Coldfield were newly built (4%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the B75 district, 12%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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