Schools
140 open schools are in scope, including 82 primary and 22 secondary schools. New Horizon Academy is the nearest published school at 444 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B23 6LU
Erdington · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Erdington
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Erdington
- Postcode district
- B23
- Postcode sector
- B23 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B23 6LU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B23
- Postcode sector
- B23 6
- Latitude
- 52.530279
- Longitude
- -1.842222
- British National Grid easting
- 410,800
- British National Grid northing
- 292,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- Erdington · E05011135
- Parish or community
- E43000250
- Westminster constituency
- Birmingham Erdington · E14001093
- Output area
- E00045739
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 023C · E01009006
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 023 · E02001849
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
- 140
- Primary
- 82
- Secondary
- 22
- 444 m
New Horizon Academy
Other independent special school
- 446 m
Osborne Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 465 m
Highclare School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,502
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,855
- Shoplifting 814
- Criminal damage and arson 444
- Vehicle crime 399
- Public order 375
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
44
within 5 km straight-line
POPLARS SURGERY
17 HOLLY LANE, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B24 9JN
ODS code M85065
717 m
SUTTON ROAD SURGERY
122 SUTTON ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 5TJ
ODS code M85115
1.0 km
DR KHUROO'S PRACTICE
STOCKLAND GREEN PCC, 192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85716
1.2 km
RESERVOIR ROAD SURGERY
192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85070
1.2 km
TUDOR PRACTICE STOCKLAND GREEN
STOCKLAND GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, 192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85669
1.2 km
THE HAWTHORNS SURGERY
331 BIRMINGHAM ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B72 1DL
ODS code M85175
1.5 km
THE DOVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
60 DOVEDALE ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B23 5DD
ODS code M85081
1.6 km
KINGSBURY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
273 KINGSBURY ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B24 8RD
ODS code M85014
1.7 km
HILLCREST SURGERY
9 TWICKENHAM ROAD, KINGSTANDING, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0NN
ODS code M85016
2.2 km
COLLEGE ROAD SURGERY
452 COLLEGE ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0HL
ODS code M85087
2.3 km
MIDLANDS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
EATON WOOD MEDICAL CENTRE, 1128 TYBURN ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B24 0SY
ODS code M85063
2.3 km
AYLESBURY SURGERY
AYLESBURY HOUSE, WARREN FARM ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0DX
ODS code M85779
2.7 km
ASHFIELD SURGERY
8 WALMLEY ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B76 1QN
ODS code M85026
3.1 km
THE MANOR PRACTICE
61 HOLLAND ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B72 1RL
ODS code M85033
3.4 km
EDEN COURT MEDICAL PRACTICE
200 TANGMERE DRIVE, CASTLE VALE, BIRMINGHAM, B35 6EE
ODS code M85079
3.5 km
SHAH ZAMAN SURGERY
70 TANGMERE DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, B35 7QX
ODS code M85001
3.6 km
CHURCH ROAD SURGERY
28 CHURCH ROAD, ASTON, BIRMINGHAM, B6 5UP
ODS code M85697
3.7 km
KINGSTANDING CIRCLE SURGERY
26 ROUGH ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0UY
ODS code M85155
3.7 km
COTMORE SURGERY
169 OLD OSCOTT LANE, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B44 8TU
ODS code M85792
3.8 km
FIRS SURGERY
87 KEMPSON ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B36 8LR
ODS code M85107
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 44 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Somerset Road
BCT · Short Heath
- 0.1 miles
Somerset Road
BCT · Short Heath
- 0.1 miles
Station Road
BCT · Erdington
- 0.1 miles
Marsh Lane
BCT · Erdington
- 0.1 miles
Gravelly Lane
BCT · Erdington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 023C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
6,396 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
6,502 published events cover 12 months, averaging 541.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,855 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.