Property market
The five-year median is £175,000 from 1 recorded sale in B12 8HH. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Birmingham is £234,150 in June 2026, up 2.2% year on year.
B12 8HH
Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Birmingham
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Hall Green and Moseley
- Postcode district
- B12
- Postcode sector
- B12 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B12 8HH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B12
- Postcode sector
- B12 8
- Latitude
- 52.455072
- Longitude
- -1.875897
- British National Grid easting
- 408,530
- British National Grid northing
- 284,130
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
- E00047523
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 077E · E01009397
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 077 · E02001903
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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Chesterton Avenue, Birmingham, B12 8HH | 6 July 2026 | £175,000 |
| 9, Chesterton Avenue, Birmingham, B12 8HH | 12 July 2018 | £122,000 |
| 6, Chesterton Avenue, Birmingham, B12 8HH | 13 March 2015 | £91,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 206
- Primary
- 100
- Secondary
- 33
- 177 m
Nelson Mandela School
Community school
- 180 m
Clifton Primary School
Community school
- 396 m
St Paul's School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,651
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,590
- Criminal damage and arson 637
- Vehicle crime 615
- Other theft 493
- Public order 442
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 63
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 3.5
- B12 8 residents
- 8,668
39 female, 24 male
Age bands in B12 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 26.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 18.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.6%
2,222 residents
1,566 residents
2,473 residents
1,524 residents
637 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B12 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
72
within 5 km straight-line
NEWPORT MEDICAL GROUP
NEWPORT MEDICAL PRACTICE, 1 NEWPORT ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B12 8QE
ODS code M85164
404 m
WEATHER OAK MEDICAL CENTRE
35 WARWICK ROAD, SPARKHILL, BIRMINGHAM, B11 4RA
ODS code M85153
605 m
FERNLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
560 STRATFORD ROAD, SPARKHILL, BIRMINGHAM, B11 4AN
ODS code M85116
861 m
BALSALL HEATH HEALTH CENTRE (S)
BALSALL HEATH HEALTH CENTRE, 43 EDWARD ROAD, BALSALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B12 9LP
ODS code M85766
867 m
DR WALJI AND COLLEAGUES
BALSALL HEATH HEALTH CTR, 43 EDWARD ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B12 9LP
ODS code M85128
867 m
FIRSTCARE PRACTICE
BALSALL HEATH HEALTH CENTRE, 43 EDWARD ROAD, BALSALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B12 9LP
ODS code M85051
867 m
THE BALAJI SURGERY, THE SPARKBROOK CHC
34 GRANTHAM ROAD, SPARKBROOK, BIRMINGHAM, B11 1LU
ODS code M85794
901 m
THE BROOK SURGERY
34 GRANTHAM ROAD, SPARKBROOK, BIRMINGHAM, B11 1LU
ODS code M85174
901 m
WAKE GREEN SURGERY
7 WAKE GREEN ROAD, MOSELEY, BIRMINGHAM, B13 9HD
ODS code M85074
1.1 km
STRENSHAM ROAD SURGERY
4 STRENSHAM ROAD, BALSALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B12 9RR
ODS code M85783
1.1 km
MOSELEY MEDICAL CENTRE
2-2B WAKE GREEN ROAD, MOSELEY, BIRMINGHAM, B13 9EZ
ODS code M85021
1.2 km
GREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
50 PERCY ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B11 3ND
ODS code M85735
1.2 km
HIGHGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHGATE STREET, BIRMINGHAM, B12 0YA
ODS code M85713
1.3 km
THE WAND MEDICAL CENTRE
15 FRANK STREET, HIGHGATE, BIRMINGHAM, B12 0UF
ODS code M85084
1.3 km
THE KHATTAK MEMORIAL SURGERY
309 BOLTON ROAD, SMALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B10 0AU
ODS code M85146
1.5 km
SPRINGFIELD MEDICAL PRACT
739-741 STRATFORD ROAD, SPARKHILL, BIRMINGHAM, B11 4DG
ODS code M85756
1.6 km
THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
COOKSEY ROAD, SMALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B10 0BS
ODS code M85024
1.6 km
OAKWOOD SURGERY
SPARKHILL PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 856 STRATFORD ROAD, SPARKHILL, BIRMINGHAM, B11 4BW
ODS code M85078
1.7 km
SPRINGFIELD SURGERY
SPARKHILL PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 856 STRATFORD ROAD, SPARKHILL, BIRMINGHAM, B11 4BW
ODS code M85774
1.7 km
THE HILL GENERAL PRACTICE & UCC
856 STRATFORD ROAD, SPARKHILL, BIRMINGHAM, B11 4BW
ODS code Y02620
1.7 km
Showing 20 of 72 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Brunswick Road
BCT · Sparkbrook
- 0.1 miles
Brunswick Road
BCT · Sparkbrook
- 0.1 miles
Chesterton Road
BCT · Balsall Heath
- 0.2 miles
Balsall Heath Park
BCT · Balsall Heath
- 0.2 miles
Balsall Heath Park
BCT · Balsall Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 077E, 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
1,453 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
206 open schools are in scope, including 100 primary and 33 secondary schools. Nelson Mandela School is the nearest published school at 177 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
7,651 published events cover 12 months, averaging 637.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,590 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.