Schools
81 open schools are in scope, including 50 primary and 12 secondary schools. The Heights Academy is the nearest published school at 176 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B36 9JW
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B36 9JW
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B36
- Postcode sector
- B36 9
- Latitude
- 52.509212
- Longitude
- -1.755175
- British National Grid easting
- 416,713
- British National Grid northing
- 290,173
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
- E00051747
- Lower layer super output area
- Solihull 002D · E01010240
- Middle layer super output area
- Solihull 002 · E02002082
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
- 81
- Primary
- 50
- Secondary
- 12
- 176 m
The Heights Academy
Free schools special
- 263 m
Castlewood School
Academy special sponsor led
- 552 m
Castle Bromwich Infant and Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,164
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 909
- Vehicle crime 248
- Shoplifting 235
- Criminal damage and arson 194
- Public order 131
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B36 9 residents
- 9,406
Age bands in B36 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.7%
1,619 residents
1,008 residents
2,183 residents
2,724 residents
2,212 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
22
within 5 km straight-line
ARRAN MEDICAL CENTRE
BURTONS WAY, BIRMINGHAM, B36 0SZ
ODS code M89013
737 m
GREEN LANE SURGERY
SMITHS WOOD MEDICAL CTR, BURTONS WAY, SMITHS WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B36 0SZ
ODS code M89027
737 m
THE CASTLE PRACTICE
2 HAWTHORNE ROAD, CASTLE BROMWICH, BIRMINGHAM, B36 0HH
ODS code M89026
898 m
SATIS HOUSE
10 BIRMINGHAM ROAD, WATER ORTON, BIRMINGHAM, B46 1TH
ODS code Y04884
1.1 km
PARKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
10 PARKFIELD DRIVE, CASTLE BROMWICH, BIRMINGHAM, B36 9EJ
ODS code M89001
1.4 km
KINGSHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
40 GILSON WAY, KINGSHURST, BIRMINGHAM, B37 6BE
ODS code M89002
1.8 km
THE HARLEQUIN SURGERY
160 SHARD END CRESCENT, BIRMINGHAM, B34 7BP
ODS code M85031
2.2 km
SCHOOLACRE ROAD SURGERY
2 SCHOOLACRE ROAD, SHARD END, BIRMINGHAM, B34 6RB
ODS code M85141
2.4 km
SHAH ZAMAN SURGERY
70 TANGMERE DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, B35 7QX
ODS code M85001
2.8 km
EDEN COURT MEDICAL PRACTICE
200 TANGMERE DRIVE, CASTLE VALE, BIRMINGHAM, B35 6EE
ODS code M85079
2.8 km
FIRS SURGERY
87 KEMPSON ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B36 8LR
ODS code M85107
3.2 km
BOSWORTH MEDICAL GROUP
CHELMSLEY WOOD PCC, CRABTREE DRIVE, CHELMSLEY WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B37 5BU
ODS code M89008
3.2 km
NSC BOSWORTH HUB
BOSWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE, 16 CRABTREE DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, B37 5BU
ODS code Y06125
3.2 km
HODGE HILL FAMILY PRACTICE
1ST FLOOR HODGE HILL PCC, ROUGHLEA AVENUE, HODGE HILL, BIRMINGHAM, B36 8GH
ODS code Y02567
3.2 km
BUCKLANDS END LANE SURGERY
36 BUCKLANDS END LANE, BIRMINGHAM, B34 6BP
ODS code M85113
3.3 km
MIRFIELD SURGERY
287 KITTS GREEN ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9SA
ODS code M85746
3.4 km
HAZELWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
27 PARKFIELD ROAD, COLESHILL, BIRMINGHAM, B46 3LD
ODS code M84042
3.6 km
CHURCH LANE - KHAN
111-113 CHURCH LANE, KITTS GREEN, STECHFORD, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9EJ
ODS code M85013
3.6 km
CROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
1 POMEROY WAY, CHELMSLEY WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B37 7WB
ODS code M89012
4.0 km
MIDLANDS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
EATON WOOD MEDICAL CENTRE, 1128 TYBURN ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B24 0SY
ODS code M85063
4.1 km
Showing 20 of 22 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Hamble Close
BCT · Smiths Wood
- 0.2 miles
Hamble Close
BCT · Smiths Wood
- 0.2 miles
Morris Croft
BCT · Smiths Wood
- 0.2 miles
Singer Croft
BCT · Smiths Wood
- 0.2 miles
Singer Croft
BCT · Smiths Wood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Solihull 002D, 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
3,113 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,164 published events cover 12 months, averaging 180.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 909 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.