Property market
The five-year median is £265,000 from 9 recorded sales in B26 1SG. 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 1SG
Yardley East · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Birmingham
- Ward
- Yardley East
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Yardley
- Postcode district
- B26
- Postcode sector
- B26 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B26 1SG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B26
- Postcode sector
- B26 1
- Latitude
- 52.468020
- Longitude
- -1.803982
- British National Grid easting
- 413,413
- British National Grid northing
- 285,581
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- Yardley East · E05011185
- Parish or community
- E43000250
- Westminster constituency
- Birmingham Yardley · E14001100
- Output area
- E00048173
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 067E · E01009521
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 067 · E02001893
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
53 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 42, Croft Road, Birmingham, B26 1SG | 27 September 2024 | £230,000 |
| 24, Croft Road, Birmingham, B26 1SG | 5 July 2024 | £320,000 |
| 14, Croft Road, Birmingham, B26 1SG | 4 October 2023 | £265,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 162
- Primary
- 97
- Secondary
- 25
- 580 m
Yardley Primary School
Community school
- 834 m
East Birmingham Network Academy
Free schools alternative provision
- 854 m
Garretts Green Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,185
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,349
- Vehicle crime 486
- Criminal damage and arson 429
- Shoplifting 386
- Public order 290
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 99
- Postcode households
- 37
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- B26 1 residents
- 10,922
52 female, 47 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 0.9% 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
63
within 5 km
ROWLANDS ROAD SURGERY
15 ROWLANDS ROAD, SOUTH YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B26 1AT
ODS code M85171
547 m
MANOR HOUSE LANE SURGERY
1 MANOR HOUSE LANE, YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B26 1PD
ODS code M89009
691 m
GARRETTS GREEN LANE SURGERY
172 GARRETTS GREEN LANE, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 2SB
ODS code M85694
1.0 km
THE SWAN MEDICAL CENTRE
4 WILLARD RD, SOUTH YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B25 8AA
ODS code M85011
1.1 km
IRIDIUM MEDICAL PRACTICE
299 BORDESLEY GREEN EAST, STECHFORD, BIRMINGHAM, B33 8TA
ODS code Y02893
1.4 km
DOWNSFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
315 SHELDON HEATH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 2TY
ODS code M85717
1.7 km
YARDLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1222 COVENTRY ROAD, YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B25 8BY
ODS code M85094
1.7 km
CHURCH ROAD SURGERY
90 CHURCH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3TP
ODS code M85048
1.9 km
THE SHELDON MEDICAL CENTRE
169 CHURCH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3TT
ODS code M85770
2.0 km
CRANES PARK ROAD SURGERY
25 CRANES PARK ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3SE
ODS code M85097
2.1 km
CHURCH LANE - KHAN
111-113 CHURCH LANE, KITTS GREEN, STECHFORD, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9EJ
ODS code M85013
2.2 km
MIRFIELD SURGERY
287 KITTS GREEN ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9SA
ODS code M85746
2.3 km
RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTRE
179 RICHMOND ROAD, SOLIHULL, B92 7SA
ODS code M89007
2.3 km
OMNIA PRACTICE
73 YARDLEY GREEN ROAD, BORDESLEY GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B9 5PU
ODS code M85034
2.5 km
YARDLEY GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
77 YARDLEY GREEN ROAD, BORDESLEY GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B9 5PU
ODS code M85061
2.5 km
COTTERILS LANE SURGERY
75-77 COTTERILLS LANE, ALUM ROCK, BIRMINGHAM, B8 3RZ
ODS code M85680
2.6 km
COVENTRY ROAD PRACTICE
2314 COVENTRY ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3JS
ODS code M89021
2.6 km
ACOCKS GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
999 WARWICK ROAD, ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B27 6QJ
ODS code M85736
2.7 km
VICTORIA ROAD SURGERY
21 VICTORIA ROAD, ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B27 7XZ
ODS code M85105
2.8 km
HOBS MOAT MEDICAL CENTRE
ULLERIES ROAD, SOLIHULL, B92 8ED
ODS code M89019
2.8 km
Showing 20 of 63 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
- 0.1 miles
Wroxton Road
BCT · Yardley
- 0.2 miles
Wroxton Road
BCT · Yardley
- 0.2 miles
Elmcroft Road
BCT · Yardley
- 0.2 miles
Elmcroft Road
BCT · Yardley
- 0.2 miles
Digbeth in the Field
BCT · Yardley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 067E, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,589 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
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
162 open schools are in scope, including 97 primary and 25 secondary schools. Yardley Primary School is the nearest published school at 580 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5,185 published events cover 12 months, averaging 432.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,349 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.