Property market
The five-year median is £195,000 from 1 recorded sale in B42 2SD. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Birmingham is £234,150 in June 2026, up 2.2% year on year.
B42 2SD
Oscott · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Birmingham
- Ward
- Oscott
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Erdington
- Postcode district
- B42
- Postcode sector
- B42 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B42 2SD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B42
- Postcode sector
- B42 2
- Latitude
- 52.537744
- Longitude
- -1.903986
- British National Grid easting
- 406,609
- British National Grid northing
- 293,323
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- Oscott · E05011159
- Parish or community
- E43000250
- Westminster constituency
- Birmingham Erdington · E14001093
- Output area
- E00046831
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 019C · E01009244
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 019 · E02001845
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 B42
Property
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 57, Hassop Road, Birmingham, B42 2SD | 30 June 2025 | £195,000 |
| 63, Hassop Road, Birmingham, B42 2SD | 9 February 2018 | £135,000 |
| 69, Hassop Road, Birmingham, B42 2SD | 12 April 2017 | £117,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 133
- Primary
- 82
- Secondary
- 21
- 329 m
Perry Beeches Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 413 m
Beeches Infant School
Community school
- 413 m
Beeches Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,587
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,109
- Shoplifting 287
- Vehicle crime 212
- Criminal damage and arson 191
- Other theft 166
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- B42 2 residents
- 14,100
9 female, 6 male
Age bands in B42 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.7%
2,775 residents
1,604 residents
4,009 residents
3,552 residents
2,065 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B42 2 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
35
within 5 km
COTMORE SURGERY
169 OLD OSCOTT LANE, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B44 8TU
ODS code M85792
833 m
TOWER HILL PARTNERSHIP
433 WALSALL ROAD, PERRY BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B42 1BT
ODS code M85019
962 m
PERRY PARK SURGERY
291-293 WALSALL ROAD, PERRY BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B42 1TY
ODS code M85624
1.3 km
GREAT BARR PRACTICE
379 QUESLETT ROAD, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 7HB
ODS code M88015
1.5 km
THE OAKS MEDICAL CENTRE
199 SHADY LANE, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B44 9ER
ODS code M85060
1.7 km
SCOTT ARMS MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITECREST, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 6EE
ODS code M88021
1.8 km
AYLESBURY SURGERY
AYLESBURY HOUSE, WARREN FARM ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0DX
ODS code M85779
2.0 km
APOLLO SURGERY
619 KINGS ROAD, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B44 9HW
ODS code M85158
2.0 km
COLLEGE ROAD SURGERY
452 COLLEGE ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0HL
ODS code M85087
2.0 km
COLLINGWOOD FAMILY PRACTICE
COLLINGWOOD CENTRE, COLLINGWOOD DRIVE, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 7NF
ODS code M91032
2.1 km
QUESLETT MEDICAL CENTRE
522 QUESLETT ROAD, GREAT BARR, BIRMINGHAM, B43 7DY
ODS code M91642
2.2 km
KINGSTANDING CIRCLE SURGERY
26 ROUGH ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0UY
ODS code M85155
2.4 km
THE SLIEVE SURGERY
2 THE SLIEVE, HANDSWORTH WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B20 2NR
ODS code M85145
2.5 km
THE DOVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
60 DOVEDALE ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B23 5DD
ODS code M85081
2.7 km
HILLCREST SURGERY
9 TWICKENHAM ROAD, KINGSTANDING, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0NN
ODS code M85016
2.8 km
HEATHFIELD FAMILY CENTRE
131-133 HEATHFIELD ROAD, HANDSWORTH, BIRMINGHAM, B19 1HL
ODS code M85634
3.5 km
DR KHUROO'S PRACTICE
STOCKLAND GREEN PCC, 192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85716
3.5 km
RESERVOIR ROAD SURGERY
192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85070
3.5 km
TUDOR PRACTICE STOCKLAND GREEN
STOCKLAND GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, 192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85669
3.5 km
AL-SHAFA MEDICAL CENTRE
5-7 LITTLE OAKS ROAD, ASTON, BIRMINGHAM, B6 6JY
ODS code M85123
3.6 km
Showing 20 of 35 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
Grindleford Road
BCT · Tower Hill
- 0.0 miles
Grindleford Road
BCT · Tower Hill
- 0.1 miles
Beeches Road
BCT · Old Oscott
- 0.1 miles
Beeches Road
BCT · Old Oscott
- 0.1 miles
Hassop Road
BCT · Old Oscott
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 019C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,183 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 3
- 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
Schools
133 open schools are in scope, including 82 primary and 21 secondary schools. Perry Beeches Nursery School is the nearest published school at 329 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,587 published events cover 12 months, averaging 215.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,109 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.