Schools
221 open schools are in scope, including 106 primary and 36 secondary schools. Heritage Academy is the nearest published school at 164 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B12 0BY
Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley
- Postcode district
- B12
- Postcode sector
- B12 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B12 0BY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 October 2007
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B12
- Postcode sector
- B12 0
- Latitude
- 52.464888
- Longitude
- -1.883612
- British National Grid easting
- 408,004
- British National Grid northing
- 285,221
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East · E05011170
- Parish or community
- E43000250
- Westminster constituency
- Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley · E14001094
- Output area
- E00047474
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 071D · E01009365
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 071 · E02001897
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore B12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 221
- Primary
- 106
- Secondary
- 36
- 164 m
Heritage Academy
Other independent school
- 274 m
Calthorpe Academy
Academy special converter
- 343 m
Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
Further education
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11,685
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4,727
- Vehicle crime 962
- Criminal damage and arson 925
- Other theft 867
- Shoplifting 812
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B12 0 residents
- 4,842
Age bands in B12 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 17.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 36.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 16.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 5.7%
1,164 residents
852 residents
1,796 residents
814 residents
282 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
85
within 5 km straight-line
HIGHGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHGATE STREET, BIRMINGHAM, B12 0YA
ODS code M85713
267 m
THE WAND MEDICAL CENTRE
15 FRANK STREET, HIGHGATE, BIRMINGHAM, B12 0UF
ODS code M85084
353 m
THE BALAJI SURGERY, THE SPARKBROOK CHC
34 GRANTHAM ROAD, SPARKBROOK, BIRMINGHAM, B11 1LU
ODS code M85794
871 m
THE BROOK SURGERY
34 GRANTHAM ROAD, SPARKBROOK, BIRMINGHAM, B11 1LU
ODS code M85174
871 m
BALSALL HEATH HEALTH CENTRE (S)
BALSALL HEATH HEALTH CENTRE, 43 EDWARD ROAD, BALSALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B12 9LP
ODS code M85766
886 m
DR WALJI AND COLLEAGUES
BALSALL HEATH HEALTH CTR, 43 EDWARD ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B12 9LP
ODS code M85128
886 m
FIRSTCARE PRACTICE
BALSALL HEATH HEALTH CENTRE, 43 EDWARD ROAD, BALSALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B12 9LP
ODS code M85051
886 m
BELLEVUE MEDICAL CENTRE
6 BELLEVUE, EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM, B5 7LX
ODS code M85124
1.2 km
STRENSHAM ROAD SURGERY
4 STRENSHAM ROAD, BALSALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B12 9RR
ODS code M85783
1.4 km
WEATHER OAK MEDICAL CENTRE
35 WARWICK ROAD, SPARKHILL, BIRMINGHAM, B11 4RA
ODS code M85153
1.4 km
BABYLON GP AT HAND BIRMINGHAM
121 GLOVER STREET, BIRMINGHAM, B9 4EY
ODS code Y06487
1.4 km
NEWPORT MEDICAL GROUP
NEWPORT MEDICAL PRACTICE, 1 NEWPORT ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B12 8QE
ODS code M85164
1.4 km
THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
COOKSEY ROAD, SMALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B10 0BS
ODS code M85024
1.5 km
THE KHATTAK MEMORIAL SURGERY
309 BOLTON ROAD, SMALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B10 0AU
ODS code M85146
1.5 km
SMALL HEATH MEDICAL PRACTICE
2 GREAT WOOD ROAD, SMALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B10 9QE
ODS code M85108
1.7 km
COVENTRY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
448 COVENTRY ROAD, SMALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B10 0UG
ODS code M85699
1.8 km
BATH ROW MEDICAL PRACTICE
FIRST FLOOR, COLSTON SUITE, ATTWOOD GREENN HC, 30 BATH ROW, EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM, B15 1LZ
ODS code M85025
1.9 km
HOMELESS HEALTH EXCHANGE
30 BATH ROW, BIRMINGHAM, B15 1LZ
ODS code Y01057
1.9 km
HALCYON MEDICAL
UNIT 8, 24 MARTINEAU PLACE, BIRMINGHAM, B2 4UH
ODS code M85778
1.9 km
FERNLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
560 STRATFORD ROAD, SPARKHILL, BIRMINGHAM, B11 4AN
ODS code M85116
2.0 km
Showing 20 of 85 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Highgate Square
BCT · Sparkbrook
- 0.0 miles
Upper Conybere Street
BCT · Highgate
- 0.1 miles
Highgate Middleway
BCT · Highgate
- 0.1 miles
Leopold Street
BCT · Highgate
- 0.2 miles
Haden Circus
BCT · Sparkbrook
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 071D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
1 of 10
Overall England rank
157 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
11,685 published events cover 12 months, averaging 973.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4,727 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.