Schools
70 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 11 secondary schools. Smith's Wood Academy is the nearest published school at 388 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B36 0NG
Kingshurst & Smith's Wood · Solihull · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North
- Postcode district
- B36
- Postcode sector
- B36 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B36 0NG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B36
- Postcode sector
- B36 0
- Latitude
- 52.496925
- Longitude
- -1.739365
- British National Grid easting
- 417,791
- British National Grid northing
- 288,810
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Solihull · E08000029
- Electoral ward
- Kingshurst & Smith's Wood · E05016423
- Parish or community
- E04000156
- Westminster constituency
- Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North · E14001095
- Output area
- E00051736
- Lower layer super output area
- Solihull 004D · E01010238
- Middle layer super output area
- Solihull 004 · E02002084
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 B36
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 70
- Primary
- 44
- Secondary
- 11
- 388 m
Smith's Wood Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 407 m
St John the Baptist Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 533 m
Forest Oak School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,212
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,050
- Criminal damage and arson 257
- Vehicle crime 240
- Public order 127
- Shoplifting 87
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 121
- Postcode households
- 53
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- B36 0 residents
- 13,606
68 female, 53 male
Age bands in B36 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 18%
2,640 residents
1,504 residents
3,300 residents
3,195 residents
2,328 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B36 0 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
22
within 5 km
KINGSHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
40 GILSON WAY, KINGSHURST, BIRMINGHAM, B37 6BE
ODS code M89002
656 m
ARRAN MEDICAL CENTRE
BURTONS WAY, BIRMINGHAM, B36 0SZ
ODS code M89013
1.0 km
GREEN LANE SURGERY
SMITHS WOOD MEDICAL CTR, BURTONS WAY, SMITHS WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B36 0SZ
ODS code M89027
1.0 km
THE CASTLE PRACTICE
2 HAWTHORNE ROAD, CASTLE BROMWICH, BIRMINGHAM, B36 0HH
ODS code M89026
1.3 km
BOSWORTH MEDICAL GROUP
CHELMSLEY WOOD PCC, CRABTREE DRIVE, CHELMSLEY WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B37 5BU
ODS code M89008
2.1 km
NSC BOSWORTH HUB
BOSWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE, 16 CRABTREE DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, B37 5BU
ODS code Y06125
2.1 km
HAZELWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
27 PARKFIELD ROAD, COLESHILL, BIRMINGHAM, B46 3LD
ODS code M84042
2.2 km
CROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
1 POMEROY WAY, CHELMSLEY WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B37 7WB
ODS code M89012
2.3 km
SATIS HOUSE
10 BIRMINGHAM ROAD, WATER ORTON, BIRMINGHAM, B46 1TH
ODS code Y04884
2.4 km
THE HARLEQUIN SURGERY
160 SHARD END CRESCENT, BIRMINGHAM, B34 7BP
ODS code M85031
2.6 km
PARKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
10 PARKFIELD DRIVE, CASTLE BROMWICH, BIRMINGHAM, B36 9EJ
ODS code M89001
2.8 km
SCHOOLACRE ROAD SURGERY
2 SCHOOLACRE ROAD, SHARD END, BIRMINGHAM, B34 6RB
ODS code M85141
3.2 km
MIRFIELD SURGERY
287 KITTS GREEN ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9SA
ODS code M85746
3.3 km
CHURCH LANE - KHAN
111-113 CHURCH LANE, KITTS GREEN, STECHFORD, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9EJ
ODS code M85013
3.9 km
BUCKLANDS END LANE SURGERY
36 BUCKLANDS END LANE, BIRMINGHAM, B34 6BP
ODS code M85113
4.1 km
HODGE HILL FAMILY PRACTICE
1ST FLOOR HODGE HILL PCC, ROUGHLEA AVENUE, HODGE HILL, BIRMINGHAM, B36 8GH
ODS code Y02567
4.2 km
DOWNSFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
315 SHELDON HEATH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 2TY
ODS code M85717
4.3 km
FIRS SURGERY
87 KEMPSON ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B36 8LR
ODS code M85107
4.3 km
SHAH ZAMAN SURGERY
70 TANGMERE DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, B35 7QX
ODS code M85001
4.3 km
EDEN COURT MEDICAL PRACTICE
200 TANGMERE DRIVE, CASTLE VALE, BIRMINGHAM, B35 6EE
ODS code M85079
4.4 km
Showing 20 of 22 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
Sanda Croft
BCT · Bacons End
- 0.1 miles
Sanda Croft
BCT · Bacons End
- 0.2 miles
Orkney Croft
BCT · Smiths Wood
- 0.2 miles
Orkney Croft
BCT · Smiths Wood
- 0.2 miles
Smiths Wood Academy
BCT · Kingshurst
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Solihull 004D, 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
2,319 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
Recorded crime
2,212 published events cover 12 months, averaging 184.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,050 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.