Schools
84 open schools are in scope, including 54 primary and 11 secondary schools. Grace Academy Solihull is the nearest published school at 501 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B37 5PE
Fordbridge · Solihull · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Birmingham
- 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 5PE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B37
- Postcode sector
- B37 5
- Latitude
- 52.474067
- Longitude
- -1.749894
- British National Grid easting
- 417,085
- British National Grid northing
- 286,265
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Solihull · E08000029
- Electoral ward
- Fordbridge · E05016422
- Parish or community
- E04000148
- Westminster constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East · E14001358
- Output area
- E00051126
- Lower layer super output area
- Solihull 009D · E01010113
- Middle layer super output area
- Solihull 009 · E02002089
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
Property
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Friendly Inn Residential Home, Gloucester Way, Birmingham, B37 5PE | 17 February 2021 | £720,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 84
- Primary
- 54
- Secondary
- 11
- 501 m
Grace Academy Solihull
Academy sponsor led
- 720 m
St Anne's Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 790 m
Coleshill Heath School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,382
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,747
- Criminal damage and arson 525
- Shoplifting 509
- Vehicle crime 471
- Public order 227
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 34
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B37 5 residents
- 10,353
21 female, 13 male
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
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B37 5 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
28
within 5 km
BOSWORTH MEDICAL GROUP
CHELMSLEY WOOD PCC, CRABTREE DRIVE, CHELMSLEY WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B37 5BU
ODS code M89008
768 m
NSC BOSWORTH HUB
BOSWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE, 16 CRABTREE DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, B37 5BU
ODS code Y06125
768 m
CROFT MEDICAL CENTRE
1 POMEROY WAY, CHELMSLEY WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B37 7WB
ODS code M89012
1.6 km
DOWNSFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
315 SHELDON HEATH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 2TY
ODS code M85717
2.2 km
KINGSHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
40 GILSON WAY, KINGSHURST, BIRMINGHAM, B37 6BE
ODS code M89002
2.2 km
MIRFIELD SURGERY
287 KITTS GREEN ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9SA
ODS code M85746
2.4 km
THE SHELDON MEDICAL CENTRE
169 CHURCH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3TT
ODS code M85770
2.4 km
CHURCH ROAD SURGERY
90 CHURCH ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3TP
ODS code M85048
2.7 km
GARRETTS GREEN LANE SURGERY
172 GARRETTS GREEN LANE, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 2SB
ODS code M85694
2.7 km
CRANES PARK ROAD SURGERY
25 CRANES PARK ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3SE
ODS code M85097
2.8 km
COVENTRY ROAD PRACTICE
2314 COVENTRY ROAD, SHELDON, BIRMINGHAM, B26 3JS
ODS code M89021
3.0 km
THE HARLEQUIN SURGERY
160 SHARD END CRESCENT, BIRMINGHAM, B34 7BP
ODS code M85031
3.0 km
THE CASTLE PRACTICE
2 HAWTHORNE ROAD, CASTLE BROMWICH, BIRMINGHAM, B36 0HH
ODS code M89026
3.1 km
ARRAN MEDICAL CENTRE
BURTONS WAY, BIRMINGHAM, B36 0SZ
ODS code M89013
3.3 km
GREEN LANE SURGERY
SMITHS WOOD MEDICAL CTR, BURTONS WAY, SMITHS WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B36 0SZ
ODS code M89027
3.3 km
CHURCH LANE - KHAN
111-113 CHURCH LANE, KITTS GREEN, STECHFORD, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9EJ
ODS code M85013
3.3 km
SCHOOLACRE ROAD SURGERY
2 SCHOOLACRE ROAD, SHARD END, BIRMINGHAM, B34 6RB
ODS code M85141
3.6 km
MANOR HOUSE LANE SURGERY
1 MANOR HOUSE LANE, YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B26 1PD
ODS code M89009
3.7 km
HAZELWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
27 PARKFIELD ROAD, COLESHILL, BIRMINGHAM, B46 3LD
ODS code M84042
3.9 km
ROWLANDS ROAD SURGERY
15 ROWLANDS ROAD, SOUTH YARDLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B26 1AT
ODS code M85171
4.0 km
Showing 20 of 28 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
Kington Gardens
BCT · Fordbridge
- 0.1 miles
Kington Gardens
BCT · Fordbridge
- 0.2 miles
Gloucester Way
BCT · Marston Green
- 0.2 miles
Gloucester Way
BCT · Marston Green
- 0.3 miles
Cambridge Drive
BCT · Marston Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Solihull 009D, 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
8,489 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 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.
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
4,382 published events cover 12 months, averaging 365.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,747 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.