Schools
137 open schools are in scope, including 81 primary and 22 secondary schools. Brays School is the nearest published school at 438 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B26 3DQ
Sheldon · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sheldon
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Yardley
- Postcode district
- B26
- Postcode sector
- B26 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B26 3DQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B26
- Postcode sector
- B26 3
- Latitude
- 52.455354
- Longitude
- -1.793810
- British National Grid easting
- 414,108
- British National Grid northing
- 284,174
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- Sheldon · E05011166
- Parish or community
- E43000250
- Westminster constituency
- Birmingham Yardley · E14001100
- Output area
- E00186271
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 081B · E01009316
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 081 · E02001907
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
- 137
- Primary
- 81
- Secondary
- 22
- 438 m
Brays School
Academy special converter
- 592 m
Lyndon Green Junior School
Community school
- 609 m
Lyndon Green Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,468
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,601
- Shoplifting 826
- Vehicle crime 468
- Criminal damage and arson 317
- Other theft 227
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B26 3 residents
- 11,208
Age bands in B26 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.6%
2,028 residents
1,310 residents
3,133 residents
2,873 residents
1,994 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
45
within 5 km
MANOR HOUSE LANE SURGERY
1 MANOR HOUSE LANE, YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B26 1PD
ODS code M89009
901 m
RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTRE
179 RICHMOND ROAD, SOLIHULL, B92 7SA
ODS code M89007
935 m
CHURCH ROAD SURGERY
90 CHURCH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3TP
ODS code M85048
970 m
CRANES PARK ROAD SURGERY
25 CRANES PARK ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3SE
ODS code M85097
982 m
ROWLANDS ROAD SURGERY
15 ROWLANDS ROAD, SOUTH YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B26 1AT
ODS code M85171
1.2 km
THE SHELDON MEDICAL CENTRE
169 CHURCH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3TT
ODS code M85770
1.2 km
COVENTRY ROAD PRACTICE
2314 COVENTRY ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3JS
ODS code M89021
1.3 km
HOBS MOAT MEDICAL CENTRE
ULLERIES ROAD, SOLIHULL, B92 8ED
ODS code M89019
1.3 km
GARRETTS GREEN LANE SURGERY
172 GARRETTS GREEN LANE, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 2SB
ODS code M85694
1.5 km
DOWNSFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
315 SHELDON HEATH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 2TY
ODS code M85717
1.6 km
THE SWAN MEDICAL CENTRE
4 WILLARD RD, SOUTH YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B25 8AA
ODS code M85011
1.8 km
ST. MARGARETS MEDICAL PRACTICE
8 ST. MARGARETS ROAD, SOLIHULL, B92 7JS
ODS code M89005
2.1 km
VICTORIA ROAD SURGERY
21 VICTORIA ROAD, ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B27 7XZ
ODS code M85105
2.1 km
ACOCKS GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
999 WARWICK ROAD, ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B27 6QJ
ODS code M85736
2.5 km
YARDLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
1222 COVENTRY ROAD, YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B25 8BY
ODS code M85094
2.5 km
SWANSWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
370 GOSPEL LANE, ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B27 7AL
ODS code M85177
3.0 km
IRIDIUM MEDICAL PRACTICE
299 BORDESLEY GREEN EAST, STECHFORD, BIRMINGHAM, B33 8TA
ODS code Y02893
3.0 km
MIRFIELD SURGERY
287 KITTS GREEN ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9SA
ODS code M85746
3.2 km
CHURCH LANE - KHAN
111-113 CHURCH LANE, KITTS GREEN, STECHFORD, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9EJ
ODS code M85013
3.5 km
AUBREY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
726-728 COVENTRY ROAD, SMALL HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B10 0TU
ODS code M85749
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 45 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Marcot Road
BCT · Lyndon
- 0.1 miles
Keswick Road
BCT · Lyndon End
- 0.1 miles
Keswick Road
BCT · Lyndon End
- 0.1 miles
Marcot Road
BCT · Lyndon
- 0.2 miles
Marcot Road Hail+Ride
BCT · Lyndon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 081B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,986 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
4,468 published events cover 12 months, averaging 372.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,601 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.