Schools
13 open schools are in scope, including 10 primary and 2 secondary schools. Beoley First School is the nearest published school at 1.6 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B48 7HR
Alvechurch South · Bromsgrove · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Birmingham
- Ward
- Alvechurch South
- Local authority
- Bromsgrove
- Constituency
- Bromsgrove
- Postcode district
- B48
- Postcode sector
- B48 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B48 7HR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B48
- Postcode sector
- B48 7
- Latitude
- 52.345419
- Longitude
- -1.882909
- British National Grid easting
- 408,073
- British National Grid northing
- 271,932
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Bromsgrove · E07000234
- Electoral ward
- Alvechurch South · E05009823
- Parish or community
- E04010266
- Westminster constituency
- Bromsgrove · E14001138
- Output area
- E00172214
- Lower layer super output area
- Bromsgrove 009B · E01032123
- Middle layer super output area
- Bromsgrove 009 · E02006704
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 B48
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Meadow House, Whitepits Lane, Alvechurch, Birmingham, B48 7HR | 15 May 2014 | £525,000 |
| Meadow House, Whitepits Lane, Alvechurch, Birmingham, B48 7HR | 26 January 2007 | £475,000 |
| Willoughby House, Whitepits Lane, Alvechurch, Birmingham, B48 7HR | 17 April 2004 | £785,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 13
- Primary
- 10
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.5 km
Beoley First School
Academy converter
- 3.3 km
Meadow Green Primary School
Community school
- 3.4 km
Church Hill Middle School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 69
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 24
- Other theft 20
- Vehicle crime 6
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Public order 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- B48 7 residents
- 6,055
5 female, 4 male
Age bands in B48 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.8%
1,030 residents
528 residents
1,286 residents
1,703 residents
1,579 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B48 7 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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 66.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 16.7%
- 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
4
within 5 km
TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN MED CTR
THE BIRCHES, BROAD LANE, TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN, SOLIHULL, B94 5DP
ODS code M84047
2.9 km
HOLLYOAKS MEDICAL CENTRE
229 STATION ROAD, WYTHALL, BIRMINGHAM, B47 6ET
ODS code M81083
3.7 km
WINYATES HEALTH CENTRE
WINYATES CENTRE, WINYATES WAY, REDDITCH, B98 0NR
ODS code M81019
4.7 km
HOLLYWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
BEAUDESERT ROAD, HOLLYWOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B47 5DP
ODS code M81064
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
- 0.2 miles
Old Alcester Road
BCT · Portway
- 0.3 miles
Slip Road
BCT · Portway
- 0.3 miles
Lion Wood
BCT · Portway
- 0.4 miles
Lion Wood
BCT · Portway
- 0.4 miles
Portway Hotel
BCT · Portway
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bromsgrove 009B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,620 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 1
- 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
69 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 24 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.