Property market
The five-year median is £225,000 from 1 recorded sale in B20 1LP. 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.
B20 1LP
Handsworth Wood · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Birmingham
- Ward
- Handsworth Wood
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Perry Barr
- Postcode district
- B20
- Postcode sector
- B20 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B20 1LP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B20
- Postcode sector
- B20 1
- Latitude
- 52.526486
- Longitude
- -1.940875
- British National Grid easting
- 404,108
- British National Grid northing
- 292,068
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- Handsworth Wood · E05011143
- Parish or community
- E43000250
- Westminster constituency
- Birmingham Perry Barr · E14001098
- Output area
- E00165817
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 133F · E01032591
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 133 · E02006809
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 B20
Property
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 45, Craythorne Avenue, Birmingham, B20 1LP | 17 October 2022 | £225,000 |
| 59, Craythorne Avenue, Birmingham, B20 1LP | 18 June 2021 | £257,000 |
| 53, Craythorne Avenue, Birmingham, B20 1LP | 18 April 2019 | £255,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 157
- Primary
- 98
- Secondary
- 29
- 435 m
Hamstead Hall Academy
Academy converter
- 508 m
Grestone Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 1.1 km
Hamstead Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,293
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,013
- Vehicle crime 207
- Shoplifting 205
- Criminal damage and arson 183
- Other theft 143
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 41
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 3.4
- B20 1 residents
- 8,640
22 female, 19 male
Age bands in B20 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 16.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.5%
1,308 residents
1,418 residents
2,539 residents
1,990 residents
1,327 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B20 1 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
54
within 5 km
THE SLIEVE SURGERY
2 THE SLIEVE, HANDSWORTH WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B20 2NR
ODS code M85145
1.2 km
TOWER HILL PARTNERSHIP
433 WALSALL ROAD, PERRY BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B42 1BT
ODS code M85019
2.1 km
HANDSWORTH MEDICAL PRACT.
4 TRAFALGAR ROAD, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, B21 9NH
ODS code M85082
2.3 km
HOLYHEAD PRIMARY HEALTH CARE CENTRE
1 ST JAMES'S ROAD, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, B21 0HL
ODS code M85721
2.4 km
PERRY PARK SURGERY
291-293 WALSALL ROAD, PERRY BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B42 1TY
ODS code M85624
2.5 km
SCOTT ARMS MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITECREST, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 6EE
ODS code M88021
2.5 km
KIRPAL MEDICAL PRACTICE
251 SOHO ROAD, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, B21 9RY
ODS code M85176
2.6 km
SOHO HEALTH CENTRE
247-251 SOHO ROAD, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, B21 9RY
ODS code Y00412
2.6 km
SOHO ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
251 SOHO ROAD, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, B21 9RY
ODS code M85757
2.6 km
SOHO ROAD PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
247-251 SOHO ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B21 9RY
ODS code M85715
2.6 km
HAMSTEAD ROAD SURGERY
168 HAMSTEAD ROAD, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, B20 2QR
ODS code M85009
2.9 km
GREAT BARR PRACTICE
379 QUESLETT ROAD, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 7HB
ODS code M88015
3.0 km
HEATHFIELD FAMILY CENTRE
131-133 HEATHFIELD ROAD, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, B19 1HL
ODS code M85634
3.1 km
MODALITY BIRMINGHAM
ORSBORN HOUSE, 55 TERRACE ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B19 1BP
ODS code M85178
3.1 km
FINCH ROAD PRIMARY CARE CENTRE
FINCH RD PRIMARY CARE CTR, FINCH ROAD, LOZELLS, BIRMINGHAM, B19 1HS
ODS code M85154
3.3 km
HAWTHORNS MEDICAL CENTRE
94 LEWISHAM ROAD, WARLEY, SMETHWICK, B66 2DD
ODS code M88041
3.3 km
DR UI HAQUE N
6 HIGH STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 6JX
ODS code M88626
3.3 km
ST PAULS PARTNERS
6 HIGH STREET, WEST BROMWICH, B70 6JX
ODS code M88639
3.3 km
CLIFTON LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
CLIFTON LANE, WEST BROMWICH, B71 3AS
ODS code M88630
3.4 km
BURBURY MEDICAL CENTRE
311 BURBURY STREET, LOZELLS, BIRMINGHAM, B19 1TT
ODS code M85701
3.4 km
Showing 20 of 54 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Parkside Road
BCT · Hamstead
- 0.2 miles
Vernon Avenue
BCT · Hamstead
- 0.3 miles
Grestone School
BCT · Leveretts
- 0.3 miles
Vernon Avenue
BCT · Hamstead
- 0.3 miles
Grestone School
BCT · Leveretts
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 133F, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,332 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
157 open schools are in scope, including 98 primary and 29 secondary schools. Hamstead Hall Academy is the nearest published school at 435 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,293 published events cover 12 months, averaging 191.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,013 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.