Schools
172 open schools are in scope, including 95 primary and 29 secondary schools. Oscott Manor School is the nearest published school at 311 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B23 6BL
Gravelly Hill · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Gravelly Hill
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Erdington
- Postcode district
- B23
- Postcode sector
- B23 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B23 6BL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1992
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B23
- Postcode sector
- B23 6
- Latitude
- 52.519497
- Longitude
- -1.846683
- British National Grid easting
- 410,500
- British National Grid northing
- 291,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- Gravelly Hill · E05011139
- Parish or community
- E43000250
- Westminster constituency
- Birmingham Erdington · E14001093
- Output area
- E00186177
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 031C · E01009000
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 031 · E02001857
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 B23
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 172
- Primary
- 95
- Secondary
- 29
- 311 m
Oscott Manor School
Academy special sponsor led
- 363 m
SS Mary & John Catholic Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 446 m
Featherstone Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,145
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,349
- Criminal damage and arson 552
- Public order 453
- Shoplifting 445
- Vehicle crime 443
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B23 6 residents
- 11,871
Age bands in B23 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.5%
2,174 residents
1,531 residents
4,181 residents
2,837 residents
1,263 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
52
within 5 km straight-line
KINGSBURY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
273 KINGSBURY ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B24 8RD
ODS code M85014
713 m
DR KHUROO'S PRACTICE
STOCKLAND GREEN PCC, 192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85716
873 m
RESERVOIR ROAD SURGERY
192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85070
873 m
TUDOR PRACTICE STOCKLAND GREEN
STOCKLAND GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, 192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85669
873 m
POPLARS SURGERY
17 HOLLY LANE, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B24 9JN
ODS code M85065
1.4 km
SUTTON ROAD SURGERY
122 SUTTON ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 5TJ
ODS code M85115
2.1 km
THE DOVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
60 DOVEDALE ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B23 5DD
ODS code M85081
2.1 km
MIDLANDS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
EATON WOOD MEDICAL CENTRE, 1128 TYBURN ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B24 0SY
ODS code M85063
2.3 km
THE HAWTHORNS SURGERY
331 BIRMINGHAM ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B72 1DL
ODS code M85175
2.6 km
CHURCH ROAD SURGERY
28 CHURCH ROAD, ASTON, BIRMINGHAM, B6 5UP
ODS code M85697
2.6 km
COLLEGE ROAD SURGERY
452 COLLEGE ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0HL
ODS code M85087
2.7 km
THE ST.CLEMENTS SURGERY
56 NECHELLS PARK ROAD, NECHELLS, BIRMINGHAM, B7 5PR
ODS code M85053
2.8 km
GATE MEDICAL CENTRE
120 WASHWOOD HEATH ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B8 1RE
ODS code M85170
2.9 km
PEARL MEDICAL CENTRE
619/621 WASHWOOD HEATH ROAD, WARD END, BIRMINGHAM, B8 2HB
ODS code M85803
3.0 km
HILLCREST SURGERY
9 TWICKENHAM ROAD, KINGSTANDING, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0NN
ODS code M85016
3.1 km
GREENFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
38 HAVELOCK ROAD, SALTLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B8 1RT
ODS code M85670
3.2 km
AMAANAH MEDICAL PRACTICE
CRADOCK ROAD, SALTLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B8 1RZ
ODS code Y01068
3.2 km
SALTLEY AND FERNBANK MEDICAL PRACTICE
SALTLEY HEALTH CENTRE, CRADOCK ROAD, SALTLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B8 1RZ
ODS code M85110
3.2 km
WARD END MEDICAL CENTRE
794A WASHWOOD HEATH ROAD, WARD END, BIRMINGHAM, B8 2JN
ODS code M85066
3.2 km
ALPHA MEDICAL PRACTICE
ALPHA MP, 38 ALUM ROCK RD, ALUM ROCK, BIRMINGHAM, B8 1JA
ODS code M85139
3.3 km
Showing 20 of 52 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Fentham Road
BCT · Erdington
- 0.0 miles
Fentham Road
BCT · Erdington
- 0.2 miles
Six Ways Erdington
BCT · Erdington
- 0.2 miles
St Mary & St John Church
BCT · Gravelly Hill
- 0.2 miles
Trafalgar Road
BCT · Erdington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 031C, 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
2,150 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
7,145 published events cover 12 months, averaging 595.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,349 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.