Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 7 secondary schools. Lickey End First School is the nearest published school at 383 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B61 0EX
Lowes Hill · Bromsgrove · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Lowes Hill
- Local authority
- Bromsgrove
- Constituency
- Bromsgrove
- Postcode district
- B61
- Postcode sector
- B61 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B61 0EX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B61
- Postcode sector
- B61 0
- Latitude
- 52.353817
- Longitude
- -2.048518
- British National Grid easting
- 396,792
- British National Grid northing
- 272,861
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Bromsgrove · E07000234
- Electoral ward
- Lowes Hill · E05009840
- Parish or community
- E43000151
- Westminster constituency
- Bromsgrove · E14001138
- Output area
- E00181402
- Lower layer super output area
- Bromsgrove 008D · E01032153
- Middle layer super output area
- Bromsgrove 008 · E02006703
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 B61
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 7
- 383 m
Lickey End First School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Catshill First School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Catshill Middle School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 868
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 379
- Anti social behaviour 104
- Criminal damage and arson 61
- Shoplifting 59
- Other theft 58
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B61 0 residents
- 11,700
Age bands in B61 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.1%
2,028 residents
999 residents
2,854 residents
3,001 residents
2,096 residents
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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 66.7%
- 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
9
within 5 km
CATSHILL VILLAGE SURGERY
36 WOODROW LANE, CATSHILL, BROMSGROVE, B61 0PU
ODS code M81084
1.5 km
DAVENAL HOUSE SURGERY PARTNERSHIP
28 BIRMINGHAM ROAD, BROMSGROVE, B61 0DD
ODS code M81069
1.7 km
CHURCHFIELDS SURGERY
B H I PARKSIDE, STOURBRIDGE ROAD, BROMSGROVE, B61 0AZ
ODS code M81070
2.0 km
ST. JOHNS SURGERY
B H I PARKSIDE, STOURBRIDGE ROAD, BROMSGROVE, B61 0AZ
ODS code M81082
2.0 km
NEW ROAD SURGERY BROMSGROVE
46 NEW ROAD, BROMSGROVE, B60 2JS
ODS code M81021
2.6 km
BARNT GREEN SURGERY
82 HEWELL ROAD, BARNT GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B45 8NF
ODS code M81078
4.0 km
CORNHILL SURGERY
65 NEW ROAD, RUBERY, REDNAL, BIRMINGHAM, B45 9JT
ODS code M81055
4.6 km
NEW ROAD SURGERY
104-106 NEW ROAD, RUBERY, RUBERY, REDNAL, BIRMINGHAM, B45 9HY
ODS code M81025
4.6 km
LEACH HEATH MEDICAL CENTRE
32 LEACH HEATH LANE, RUBERY, REDNAL, BIRMINGHAM, B45 9BU
ODS code M85027
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
- 0.1 miles
School
BCT · Lickey End
- 0.1 miles
Hillside Drive
BCT · Lickey End
- 0.1 miles
Forest Island
BCT · Lickey End
- 0.1 miles
School Lane
BCT · Lickey End
- 0.1 miles
Motorway Junction
BCT · Lickey End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bromsgrove 008D, 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
24,106 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 1
- 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
868 published events cover 12 months, averaging 72.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 379 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.