Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 5 secondary schools. Woodrush High School is the nearest published school at 608 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B47 5JX
Drakes Cross · Bromsgrove · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Birmingham
- Ward
- Drakes Cross
- Local authority
- Bromsgrove
- Constituency
- Bromsgrove
- Postcode district
- B47
- Postcode sector
- B47 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B47 5JX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2005
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B47
- Postcode sector
- B47 5
- Latitude
- 52.384699
- Longitude
- -1.885363
- British National Grid easting
- 407,899
- British National Grid northing
- 276,301
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Bromsgrove · E07000234
- Electoral ward
- Drakes Cross · E05009834
- Parish or community
- E04010276
- Westminster constituency
- Bromsgrove · E14001138
- Output area
- E00163911
- Lower layer super output area
- Bromsgrove 005A · E01032134
- Middle layer super output area
- Bromsgrove 005 · E02006700
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 B47
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Rose Cottage, 4, Drakes Close, Hollywood, Birmingham, B47 5JX | 1 June 2021 | £325,000 |
| 3, Drakes Close, Hollywood, Birmingham, B47 5JX | 3 August 2005 | £246,500 |
| 1, Drakes Close, Hollywood, Birmingham, B47 5JX | 28 July 2005 | £245,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 52
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 5
- 608 m
Woodrush High School
Academy converter
- 756 m
Coppice Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Meadow Green Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 539
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 147
- Shoplifting 127
- Anti social behaviour 53
- Other theft 44
- Vehicle crime 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- B47 5 residents
- 6,586
7 female, 7 male
Age bands in B47 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.9%
1,130 residents
556 residents
1,315 residents
1,800 residents
1,764 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B47 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+
- 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
15
within 5 km
HOLLYWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
BEAUDESERT ROAD, HOLLYWOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B47 5DP
ODS code M81064
586 m
HOLLYOAKS MEDICAL CENTRE
229 STATION ROAD, WYTHALL, BIRMINGHAM, B47 6ET
ODS code M81083
1.3 km
DRUIDS HEATH SURGERY
27 POUND ROAD, DRUIDS HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B14 5SB
ODS code M85136
2.5 km
MAYPOLE HEALTH SURGERY Y
10 SLADEPOOL FARM ROAD, KINGS HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B14 5DJ
ODS code M85179
2.8 km
GRAFTON ROAD SURGERY
11 GRAFTON ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOLIHULL, B90 1NG
ODS code M89024
2.8 km
HAWKESLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
375 SHANNON ROAD, KINGS NORTON, BIRMINGHAM, B38 9TJ
ODS code M85043
3.7 km
REA VALLEY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP
66 REDDITCH ROAD, KINGS NORTON, BIRMINGHAM, B38 8QS
ODS code M85600
3.8 km
YARDLEY WOOD HEALTH CENTRE
401 HIGHFIELD ROAD, YARDLEY WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B14 4DU
ODS code M85018
4.2 km
GPS HEALTHCARE
198 TANWORTH LANE, SHIRLEY, SOLIHULL, B90 4DD
ODS code M89003
4.3 km
BALDWINS LANE SURGERY
265 BALDWINS LANE, HALL GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B28 0RF
ODS code M85118
4.3 km
WYCHALL LANE SURGERY
11 WYCHALL LANE, KINGS NORTON, BIRMINGHAM, B38 8TE
ODS code M85071
4.4 km
NORTHWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
10-12 MIDDLETON HALL ROAD, KINGS NORTON, BIRMINGHAM, B30 1BY
ODS code M85077
4.7 km
FEATHERSTONE MEDICAL CENTRE
158 ALCESTER ROAD SOUTH, KINGS HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B14 6AA
ODS code M85693
4.8 km
KINGSFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
146 ALCESTER ROAD SOUTH, KINGS HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B14 6AA
ODS code M85037
4.8 km
GREEN RIDGE SURGERY
671 YARDLEY WOOD ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B13 0HN
ODS code M85006
5.0 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
- 0.1 miles
Silver Street
BCT · Drakes Cross
- 0.1 miles
Shawhurst Lane
BCT · Drakes Cross
- 0.1 miles
Shawhurst Lane
BCT · Drakes Cross
- 0.1 miles
Silver Street
BCT · Drakes Cross
- 0.3 miles
Simms Lane
BCT · Hollywood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bromsgrove 005A, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,103 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 3
- 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
539 published events cover 12 months, averaging 44.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 147 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.