Property market
The five-year median is £62,250 from 10 recorded sales in B12 9HF. 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 9HF
Balsall Heath West · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Birmingham
- Ward
- Balsall Heath West
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood
- Postcode district
- B12
- Postcode sector
- B12 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B12 9HF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B12
- Postcode sector
- B12 9
- Latitude
- 52.461005
- Longitude
- -1.893380
- British National Grid easting
- 407,341
- British National Grid northing
- 284,788
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- Balsall Heath West · E05011122
- Parish or community
- E43000250
- Westminster constituency
- Birmingham Ladywood · E14001096
- Output area
- E00047485
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 084A · E01009366
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 084 · E02001910
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
83 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 52, Alpha Close, Birmingham, B12 9HF | 5 January 2026 | £110,000 |
| 40, Alpha Close, Birmingham, B12 9HF | 30 October 2025 | £70,000 |
| 28, Alpha Close, Birmingham, B12 9HF | 10 January 2025 | £55,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 223
- Primary
- 106
- Secondary
- 38
- 252 m
Heath Mount Primary School
Academy converter
- 314 m
New Perspectives School
Other independent special school
- 343 m
Lift Percy Shurmer
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8,473
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,639
- Vehicle crime 796
- Criminal damage and arson 701
- Other theft 653
- Public order 476
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 125
- Postcode households
- 48
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- B12 9 residents
- 8,322
54 female, 71 male
Age bands in B12 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 17.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 19.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 10%
1,937 residents
1,554 residents
2,624 residents
1,726 residents
873 residents
This postcode contained 1.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B12 9 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
80
within 5 km straight-line
THE WAND MEDICAL CENTRE
15 FRANK STREET, HIGHGATE, BIRMINGHAM, B12 0UF
ODS code M85084
478 m
BALSALL HEATH HEALTH CENTRE (S)
BALSALL HEATH HEALTH CENTRE, 43 EDWARD ROAD, BALSALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B12 9LP
ODS code M85766
540 m
DR WALJI AND COLLEAGUES
BALSALL HEATH HEALTH CTR, 43 EDWARD ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B12 9LP
ODS code M85128
540 m
FIRSTCARE PRACTICE
BALSALL HEATH HEALTH CENTRE, 43 EDWARD ROAD, BALSALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B12 9LP
ODS code M85051
540 m
HIGHGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
HIGHGATE STREET, BIRMINGHAM, B12 0YA
ODS code M85713
551 m
BELLEVUE MEDICAL CENTRE
6 BELLEVUE, EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM, B5 7LX
ODS code M85124
705 m
STRENSHAM ROAD SURGERY
4 STRENSHAM ROAD, BALSALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B12 9RR
ODS code M85783
797 m
NEWPORT MEDICAL GROUP
NEWPORT MEDICAL PRACTICE, 1 NEWPORT ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B12 8QE
ODS code M85164
1.4 km
THE BALAJI SURGERY, THE SPARKBROOK CHC
34 GRANTHAM ROAD, SPARKBROOK, BIRMINGHAM, B11 1LU
ODS code M85794
1.5 km
THE BROOK SURGERY
34 GRANTHAM ROAD, SPARKBROOK, BIRMINGHAM, B11 1LU
ODS code M85174
1.5 km
BATH ROW MEDICAL PRACTICE
FIRST FLOOR, COLSTON SUITE, ATTWOOD GREENN HC, 30 BATH ROW, EDGBASTON, BIRMINGHAM, B15 1LZ
ODS code M85025
1.7 km
HOMELESS HEALTH EXCHANGE
30 BATH ROW, BIRMINGHAM, B15 1LZ
ODS code Y01057
1.7 km
WAKE GREEN SURGERY
7 WAKE GREEN ROAD, MOSELEY, BIRMINGHAM, B13 9HD
ODS code M85074
1.8 km
WEATHER OAK MEDICAL CENTRE
35 WARWICK ROAD, SPARKHILL, BIRMINGHAM, B11 4RA
ODS code M85153
1.8 km
MOSELEY MEDICAL CENTRE
2-2B WAKE GREEN ROAD, MOSELEY, BIRMINGHAM, B13 9EZ
ODS code M85021
1.9 km
BABYLON GP AT HAND BIRMINGHAM
121 GLOVER STREET, BIRMINGHAM, B9 4EY
ODS code Y06487
2.1 km
HALCYON MEDICAL
UNIT 8, 24 MARTINEAU PLACE, BIRMINGHAM, B2 4UH
ODS code M85778
2.2 km
FERNLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
560 STRATFORD ROAD, SPARKHILL, BIRMINGHAM, B11 4AN
ODS code M85116
2.2 km
THE LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
COOKSEY ROAD, SMALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B10 0BS
ODS code M85024
2.2 km
THE KHATTAK MEMORIAL SURGERY
309 BOLTON ROAD, SMALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B10 0AU
ODS code M85146
2.2 km
Showing 20 of 80 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Calthorpe Park
BCT · Highgate
- 0.1 miles
Calthorpe Park
BCT · Highgate
- 0.1 miles
Balfour Street
BCT · Balsall Heath
- 0.1 miles
Balsall Heath Road
BCT · Highgate
- 0.2 miles
Cobden Gardens
BCT · Balsall Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 084A, 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
2,268 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 8
- 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
223 open schools are in scope, including 106 primary and 38 secondary schools. Heath Mount Primary School is the nearest published school at 252 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
8,473 published events cover 12 months, averaging 706.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,639 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.