Schools
91 open schools are in scope, including 58 primary and 11 secondary schools. Grace Academy Solihull is the nearest published school at 91 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B37 5JQ
Fordbridge · Solihull · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Fordbridge
- Local authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East
- Postcode district
- B37
- Postcode sector
- B37 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B37 5JQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B37
- Postcode sector
- B37 5
- Latitude
- 52.476195
- Longitude
- -1.757022
- British National Grid easting
- 416,600
- British National Grid northing
- 286,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Solihull · E08000029
- Electoral ward
- Fordbridge · E05016422
- Parish or community
- E04000151
- Westminster constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East · E14001358
- Output area
- E00051276
- Lower layer super output area
- Solihull 007D · E01010144
- Middle layer super output area
- Solihull 007 · E02002087
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 B37
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 91
- Primary
- 58
- Secondary
- 11
- 91 m
Grace Academy Solihull
Academy sponsor led
- 705 m
Fordbridge Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 826 m
St Anne's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,550
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,815
- Criminal damage and arson 556
- Shoplifting 533
- Vehicle crime 457
- Public order 256
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B37 5 residents
- 10,353
Age bands in B37 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.8%
2,284 residents
1,258 residents
2,744 residents
2,518 residents
1,535 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
30
within 5 km straight-line
BOSWORTH MEDICAL GROUP
CHELMSLEY WOOD PCC, CRABTREE DRIVE, CHELMSLEY WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B37 5BU
ODS code M89008
540 m
NSC BOSWORTH HUB
BOSWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE, 16 CRABTREE DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, B37 5BU
ODS code Y06125
540 m
MIRFIELD SURGERY
287 KITTS GREEN ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9SA
ODS code M85746
1.8 km
DOWNSFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
315 SHELDON HEATH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 2TY
ODS code M85717
1.9 km
CROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
1 POMEROY WAY, CHELMSLEY WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B37 7WB
ODS code M89012
2.0 km
KINGSHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
40 GILSON WAY, KINGSHURST, BIRMINGHAM, B37 6BE
ODS code M89002
2.1 km
THE SHELDON MEDICAL CENTRE
169 CHURCH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3TT
ODS code M85770
2.2 km
GARRETTS GREEN LANE SURGERY
172 GARRETTS GREEN LANE, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 2SB
ODS code M85694
2.3 km
CHURCH ROAD SURGERY
90 CHURCH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3TP
ODS code M85048
2.5 km
THE HARLEQUIN SURGERY
160 SHARD END CRESCENT, BIRMINGHAM, B34 7BP
ODS code M85031
2.6 km
CRANES PARK ROAD SURGERY
25 CRANES PARK ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3SE
ODS code M85097
2.7 km
CHURCH LANE - KHAN
111-113 CHURCH LANE, KITTS GREEN, STECHFORD, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9EJ
ODS code M85013
2.8 km
THE CASTLE PRACTICE
2 HAWTHORNE ROAD, CASTLE BROMWICH, BIRMINGHAM, B36 0HH
ODS code M89026
2.8 km
COVENTRY ROAD PRACTICE
2314 COVENTRY ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3JS
ODS code M89021
3.0 km
SCHOOLACRE ROAD SURGERY
2 SCHOOLACRE ROAD, SHARD END, BIRMINGHAM, B34 6RB
ODS code M85141
3.1 km
ARRAN MEDICAL CENTRE
BURTONS WAY, BIRMINGHAM, B36 0SZ
ODS code M89013
3.1 km
GREEN LANE SURGERY
SMITHS WOOD MEDICAL CTR, BURTONS WAY, SMITHS WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B36 0SZ
ODS code M89027
3.1 km
MANOR HOUSE LANE SURGERY
1 MANOR HOUSE LANE, YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B26 1PD
ODS code M89009
3.4 km
ROWLANDS ROAD SURGERY
15 ROWLANDS ROAD, SOUTH YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B26 1AT
ODS code M85171
3.6 km
BUCKLANDS END LANE SURGERY
36 BUCKLANDS END LANE, BIRMINGHAM, B34 6BP
ODS code M85113
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 30 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Ilkley Grove
BCT · Fordbridge
- 0.1 miles
Ilkley Grove
BCT · Fordbridge
- 0.1 miles
Crosskey Close
BCT · Tile Cross
- 0.1 miles
Crosskey Close
BCT · Tile Cross
- 0.2 miles
Leominster House
BCT · Tile Cross
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Solihull 007D, 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
9,567 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
4,550 published events cover 12 months, averaging 379.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,815 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.