Schools
80 open schools are in scope, including 49 primary and 11 secondary schools. New Ways School is the nearest published school at 325 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B38 8LR
Longbridge & West Heath · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Northfield
- Postcode district
- B38
- Postcode sector
- B38 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B38 8LR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B38
- Postcode sector
- B38 8
- Latitude
- 52.394005
- Longitude
- -1.953951
- British National Grid easting
- 403,230
- British National Grid northing
- 277,331
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- Longbridge & West Heath · E05011152
- Parish or community
- E43000250
- Westminster constituency
- Birmingham Northfield · E14001097
- Output area
- E00046678
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 131E · E01009217
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 131 · E02001957
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 B38
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 80
- Primary
- 49
- Secondary
- 11
- 325 m
New Ways School
Other independent school
- 397 m
St John Fisher Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 648 m
West Heath Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,684
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,267
- Criminal damage and arson 276
- Vehicle crime 230
- Public order 148
- Burglary 134
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 3
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- B38 8 residents
- 9,126
1 female, 2 male
Age bands in B38 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.9%
1,737 residents
1,041 residents
2,359 residents
2,474 residents
2,132 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B38 8 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
20
within 5 km
COFTON MEDICAL CENTRE
2 ROBINSFIELD DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, B31 4TU
ODS code M85086
885 m
WEST HEATH SURGERY
196 WEST HEATH ROAD, NORTHFIELD, BIRMINGHAM, B31 3HB
ODS code M85007
1.0 km
HAWKESLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
375 SHANNON ROAD, KINGS NORTON, BIRMINGHAM, B38 9TJ
ODS code M85043
1.1 km
WOODLAND ROAD SURGERY
57 WOODLAND ROAD, NORTHFIELD, BIRMINGHAM, B31 2HZ
ODS code M85047
1.9 km
REA VALLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
66 REDDITCH ROAD, KINGS NORTON, BIRMINGHAM, B38 8QS
ODS code M85600
2.0 km
WYCHALL LANE SURGERY
11 WYCHALL LANE, KINGS NORTON, BIRMINGHAM, B38 8TE
ODS code M85071
2.2 km
ST HELIERS MEDICAL PRACTICE
15 ST. HELIERS ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B31 1QT
ODS code M85030
2.6 km
NORTHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
10-12 MIDDLETON HALL ROAD, KINGS NORTON, BIRMINGHAM, B30 1BY
ODS code M85077
2.8 km
GREAT PARK MEDICAL GROUP
MANOR PARK GROVE, NORTHFIELD, BIRMINGHAM, B31 5ER
ODS code M85076
3.3 km
DOSKI MEDICAL PRACTICE
101 HOLLOWAY, NORTHFIELD, BIRMINGHAM, B31 1TR
ODS code M85730
3.6 km
SHENLEY GREEN SURGERY
22 SHENLEY GREEN, SELLY OAK, BIRMINGHAM, B29 4HH
ODS code M85062
3.9 km
DRUIDS HEATH SURGERY
27 POUND ROAD, DRUIDS HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B14 5SB
ODS code M85136
4.0 km
COLLEGE GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HEALTH & WELLBEING CENTRE, 1 BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH, BIRMINGHAM, B31 2GH
ODS code M85029
4.0 km
LEACH HEATH MEDICAL CENTRE
32 LEACH HEATH LANE, RUBERY, REDNAL, BIRMINGHAM, B45 9BU
ODS code M85027
4.0 km
BARNT GREEN SURGERY
82 HEWELL ROAD, BARNT GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B45 8NF
ODS code M81078
4.5 km
NEW ROAD SURGERY
104-106 NEW ROAD, RUBERY, RUBERY, REDNAL, BIRMINGHAM, B45 9HY
ODS code M81025
4.6 km
CORNHILL SURGERY
65 NEW ROAD, RUBERY, REDNAL, BIRMINGHAM, B45 9JT
ODS code M81055
4.7 km
WEOLEY PARK SURGERY
112 WEOLEY PARK ROAD, SELLY OAK, BIRMINGHAM, B29 5HA
ODS code M85056
4.9 km
HOLLYWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
BEAUDESERT ROAD, HOLLYWOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B47 5DP
ODS code M81064
4.9 km
MILLENNIUM MEDICAL CENTRE
121 WEOLEY CASTLE ROAD, WEOLEY CASTLE, BIRMINGHAM, B29 5QD
ODS code M85023
4.9 km
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
Man on the Moon
BCT · West Heath
- 0.0 miles
Man on the Moon
BCT · West Heath
- 0.1 miles
Redhill Road
BCT · West Heath
- 0.1 miles
Redhill Road
BCT · West Heath
- 0.1 miles
Redditch Road
BCT · West Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 131E, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,361 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
2,684 published events cover 12 months, averaging 223.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,267 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.