Property market
The five-year median is £259,000 from 4 recorded sales in B26 1JA. 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.
B26 1JA
South Yardley · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Birmingham
- Ward
- South Yardley
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Yardley
- Postcode district
- B26
- Postcode sector
- B26 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B26 1JA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B26
- Postcode sector
- B26 1
- Latitude
- 52.455834
- Longitude
- -1.806479
- British National Grid easting
- 413,247
- British National Grid northing
- 284,225
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- South Yardley · E05011169
- Parish or community
- E43000250
- Westminster constituency
- Birmingham Yardley · E14001100
- Output area
- E00045157
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 076C · E01008888
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 076 · E02001902
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 B26
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 178, Steyning Road, Birmingham, B26 1JA | 28 November 2025 | £255,000 |
| 165, Steyning Road, Birmingham, B26 1JA | 17 December 2024 | £275,000 |
| 170, Steyning Road, Birmingham, B26 1JA | 17 July 2023 | £257,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 151
- Primary
- 91
- Secondary
- 22
- 220 m
Gilbertstone Primary School
Community school
- 759 m
East Birmingham Network Academy
Free schools alternative provision
- 824 m
Cottesbrooke Infant and Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,114
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,024
- Shoplifting 709
- Vehicle crime 484
- Criminal damage and arson 338
- Public order 301
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 45
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- B26 1 residents
- 10,922
25 female, 20 male
Age bands in B26 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.5%
2,095 residents
1,210 residents
2,952 residents
2,908 residents
1,806 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B26 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
57
within 5 km
MANOR HOUSE LANE SURGERY
1 MANOR HOUSE LANE, YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B26 1PD
ODS code M89009
774 m
ROWLANDS ROAD SURGERY
15 ROWLANDS ROAD, SOUTH YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B26 1AT
ODS code M85171
830 m
RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTRE
179 RICHMOND ROAD, SOLIHULL, B92 7SA
ODS code M89007
1.0 km
THE SWAN MEDICAL CENTRE
4 WILLARD RD, SOUTH YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B25 8AA
ODS code M85011
1.1 km
VICTORIA ROAD SURGERY
21 VICTORIA ROAD, ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B27 7XZ
ODS code M85105
1.5 km
YARDLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1222 COVENTRY ROAD, YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B25 8BY
ODS code M85094
1.7 km
ACOCKS GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
999 WARWICK ROAD, ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B27 6QJ
ODS code M85736
1.7 km
HOBS MOAT MEDICAL CENTRE
ULLERIES ROAD, SOLIHULL, B92 8ED
ODS code M89019
1.8 km
CHURCH ROAD SURGERY
90 CHURCH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3TP
ODS code M85048
1.8 km
CRANES PARK ROAD SURGERY
25 CRANES PARK ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3SE
ODS code M85097
1.8 km
GARRETTS GREEN LANE SURGERY
172 GARRETTS GREEN LANE, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 2SB
ODS code M85694
1.9 km
ST. MARGARETS MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 ST. MARGARETS ROAD, SOLIHULL, B92 7JS
ODS code M89005
2.0 km
THE SHELDON MEDICAL CENTRE
169 CHURCH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3TT
ODS code M85770
2.0 km
COVENTRY ROAD PRACTICE
2314 COVENTRY ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3JS
ODS code M89021
2.1 km
DOWNSFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
315 SHELDON HEATH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 2TY
ODS code M85717
2.2 km
IRIDIUM MEDICAL PRACTICE
299 BORDESLEY GREEN EAST, STECHFORD, BIRMINGHAM, B33 8TA
ODS code Y02893
2.6 km
SWANSWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
370 GOSPEL LANE, ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B27 7AL
ODS code M85177
2.7 km
AUBREY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
726-728 COVENTRY ROAD, SMALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B10 0TU
ODS code M85749
3.0 km
THE PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
691 COVENTRY ROAD, SMALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B10 0JL
ODS code M85005
3.1 km
OMNIA PRACTICE
73 YARDLEY GREEN ROAD, BORDESLEY GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B9 5PU
ODS code M85034
3.1 km
Showing 20 of 57 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Measham Grove
BCT · Stockfield
- 0.0 miles
Measham Grove
BCT · Stockfield
- 0.1 miles
Wichnor Road
BCT · Lyndon End
- 0.1 miles
Wichnor Road
BCT · Lyndon End
- 0.1 miles
Aldershaw Road
BCT · Stockfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 076C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,924 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
151 open schools are in scope, including 91 primary and 22 secondary schools. Gilbertstone Primary School is the nearest published school at 220 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5,114 published events cover 12 months, averaging 426.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,024 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.