Schools
143 open schools are in scope, including 83 primary and 23 secondary schools. The Oval School is the nearest published school at 554 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B26 2DF
Garretts Green · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Garretts Green
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North
- Postcode district
- B26
- Postcode sector
- B26 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B26 2DF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 March 2003
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B26
- Postcode sector
- B26 2
- Latitude
- 52.476045
- Longitude
- -1.791682
- British National Grid easting
- 414,246
- British National Grid northing
- 286,476
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- Garretts Green · E05011137
- Parish or community
- E43000250
- Westminster constituency
- Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North · E14001095
- Output area
- E00175795
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 062B · E01009514
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 062 · E02001888
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 143
- Primary
- 83
- Secondary
- 23
- 554 m
The Oval School
Academy converter
- 667 m
Oasis Academy Blakenhale Infants
Academy sponsor led
- 672 m
Oasis Academy Blakenhale Junior
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,162
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,384
- Criminal damage and arson 537
- Vehicle crime 478
- Public order 337
- Shoplifting 241
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B26 2 residents
- 12,471
Age bands in B26 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.1%
2,555 residents
1,573 residents
3,164 residents
2,903 residents
1,807 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
56
within 5 km straight-line
GARRETTS GREEN LANE SURGERY
172 GARRETTS GREEN LANE, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 2SB
ODS code M85694
868 m
MIRFIELD SURGERY
287 KITTS GREEN ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9SA
ODS code M85746
1.0 km
CHURCH LANE - KHAN
111-113 CHURCH LANE, KITTS GREEN, STECHFORD, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9EJ
ODS code M85013
1.2 km
DOWNSFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
315 SHELDON HEATH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 2TY
ODS code M85717
1.3 km
MANOR HOUSE LANE SURGERY
1 MANOR HOUSE LANE, YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B26 1PD
ODS code M89009
1.7 km
ROWLANDS ROAD SURGERY
15 ROWLANDS ROAD, SOUTH YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B26 1AT
ODS code M85171
1.7 km
IRIDIUM MEDICAL PRACTICE
299 BORDESLEY GREEN EAST, STECHFORD, BIRMINGHAM, B33 8TA
ODS code Y02893
1.8 km
THE SHELDON MEDICAL CENTRE
169 CHURCH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3TT
ODS code M85770
2.0 km
CHURCH ROAD SURGERY
90 CHURCH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3TP
ODS code M85048
2.0 km
THE SWAN MEDICAL CENTRE
4 WILLARD RD, SOUTH YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B25 8AA
ODS code M85011
2.3 km
CRANES PARK ROAD SURGERY
25 CRANES PARK ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3SE
ODS code M85097
2.3 km
THE HARLEQUIN SURGERY
160 SHARD END CRESCENT, BIRMINGHAM, B34 7BP
ODS code M85031
2.4 km
SCHOOLACRE ROAD SURGERY
2 SCHOOLACRE ROAD, SHARD END, BIRMINGHAM, B34 6RB
ODS code M85141
2.4 km
BUCKLANDS END LANE SURGERY
36 BUCKLANDS END LANE, BIRMINGHAM, B34 6BP
ODS code M85113
2.5 km
BOSWORTH MEDICAL GROUP
CHELMSLEY WOOD PCC, CRABTREE DRIVE, CHELMSLEY WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B37 5BU
ODS code M89008
2.6 km
NSC BOSWORTH HUB
BOSWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE, 16 CRABTREE DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, B37 5BU
ODS code Y06125
2.6 km
COTTERILS LANE SURGERY
75-77 COTTERILLS LANE, ALUM ROCK, BIRMINGHAM, B8 3RZ
ODS code M85680
2.7 km
YARDLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1222 COVENTRY ROAD, YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B25 8BY
ODS code M85094
2.9 km
COVENTRY ROAD PRACTICE
2314 COVENTRY ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3JS
ODS code M89021
2.9 km
WARD END MEDICAL CENTRE
794A WASHWOOD HEATH ROAD, WARD END, BIRMINGHAM, B8 2JN
ODS code M85066
3.0 km
Showing 20 of 56 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Fontley Close
BCT · Lea Hall
- 0.1 miles
The Lea
BCT · Lea Hall
- 0.1 miles
The Lea
BCT · Lea Hall
- 0.1 miles
Fontley Close
BCT · Lea Hall
- 0.2 miles
Kents Moat
BCT · Garretts Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 062B, 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
2,875 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
5,162 published events cover 12 months, averaging 430.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,384 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.