Schools
25 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 6 secondary schools. Meadows First School is the nearest published school at 634 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B61 8SR
Sidemoor · Bromsgrove · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bromsgrove
- Ward
- Sidemoor
- Local authority
- Bromsgrove
- Constituency
- Bromsgrove
- Postcode district
- B61
- Postcode sector
- B61 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B61 8SR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B61
- Postcode sector
- B61 8
- Latitude
- 52.345980
- Longitude
- -2.063439
- British National Grid easting
- 395,775
- British National Grid northing
- 271,990
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Bromsgrove · E07000234
- Electoral ward
- Sidemoor · E05009848
- Parish or community
- E43000151
- Westminster constituency
- Bromsgrove · E14001138
- Output area
- E00164041
- Lower layer super output area
- Bromsgrove 010D · E01032161
- Middle layer super output area
- Bromsgrove 010 · E02006705
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
Property
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2b, King Edward Road, Bromsgrove, B61 8SR | 30 June 2021 | £317,300 |
| 3, King Edward Road, Bromsgrove, B61 8SR | 22 January 2021 | £233,000 |
| 2b, King Edward Road, Bromsgrove, B61 8SR | 29 March 2018 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 25
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 6
- 634 m
Meadows First School
Academy converter
- 706 m
Parkside Middle School
Community school
- 935 m
The Orchards School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,350
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 583
- Anti social behaviour 168
- Shoplifting 127
- Public order 109
- Other theft 79
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 45
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- B61 8 residents
- 6,866
26 female, 19 male
Age bands in B61 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.2%
1,180 residents
694 residents
1,625 residents
1,811 residents
1,608 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B61 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
5
within 5 km
DAVENAL HOUSE SURGERY PARTNERSHIP
28 BIRMINGHAM ROAD, BROMSGROVE, B61 0DD
ODS code M81069
951 m
CHURCHFIELDS SURGERY
B H I PARKSIDE, STOURBRIDGE ROAD, BROMSGROVE, B61 0AZ
ODS code M81070
965 m
ST. JOHNS SURGERY
B H I PARKSIDE, STOURBRIDGE ROAD, BROMSGROVE, B61 0AZ
ODS code M81082
965 m
NEW ROAD SURGERY BROMSGROVE
46 NEW ROAD, BROMSGROVE, B60 2JS
ODS code M81021
1.8 km
CATSHILL VILLAGE SURGERY
36 WOODROW LANE, CATSHILL, BROMSGROVE, B61 0PU
ODS code M81084
2.4 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
Middleton Road
BCT · Sidemoor
- 0.0 miles
Middleton Road
BCT · Sidemoor
- 0.1 miles
Sainsbury's Local Store
BCT · Sidemoor
- 0.1 miles
Sainsbury's Local Store
BCT · Sidemoor
- 0.1 miles
Broad Street
BCT · Sidemoor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bromsgrove 010D, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
6,913 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
1,350 published events cover 12 months, averaging 112.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 583 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.