Schools
115 open schools are in scope, including 68 primary and 18 secondary schools. Yenton Primary School is the nearest published school at 431 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B72 1AD
Erdington · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Erdington
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Erdington
- Postcode district
- B72
- Postcode sector
- B72 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B72 1AD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B72
- Postcode sector
- B72 1
- Latitude
- 52.533854
- Longitude
- -1.827467
- British National Grid easting
- 411,800
- British National Grid northing
- 292,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- Erdington · E05011135
- Parish or community
- E43000250
- Westminster constituency
- Birmingham Erdington · E14001093
- Output area
- E00045724
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 018B · E01009003
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 018 · E02001844
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 B72
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 115
- Primary
- 68
- Secondary
- 18
- 431 m
Yenton Primary School
Academy converter
- 445 m
St Edmund Campion Catholic School
Academy converter
- 483 m
Wylde Green Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,963
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,590
- Shoplifting 599
- Vehicle crime 298
- Criminal damage and arson 287
- Other theft 217
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B72 1 residents
- 9,798
Age bands in B72 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.3%
1,586 residents
969 residents
2,324 residents
2,695 residents
2,435 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.
GP practices
28
within 5 km straight-line
SUTTON ROAD SURGERY
122 SUTTON ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 5TJ
ODS code M85115
90 m
THE HAWTHORNS SURGERY
331 BIRMINGHAM ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B72 1DL
ODS code M85175
555 m
POPLARS SURGERY
17 HOLLY LANE, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B24 9JN
ODS code M85065
655 m
MIDLANDS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
EATON WOOD MEDICAL CENTRE, 1128 TYBURN ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B24 0SY
ODS code M85063
1.8 km
ASHFIELD SURGERY
8 WALMLEY ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B76 1QN
ODS code M85026
2.0 km
KINGSBURY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
273 KINGSBURY ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B24 8RD
ODS code M85014
2.2 km
DR KHUROO'S PRACTICE
STOCKLAND GREEN PCC, 192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85716
2.3 km
RESERVOIR ROAD SURGERY
192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85070
2.3 km
TUDOR PRACTICE STOCKLAND GREEN
STOCKLAND GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, 192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85669
2.3 km
THE DOVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
60 DOVEDALE ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B23 5DD
ODS code M85081
2.5 km
THE MANOR PRACTICE
61 HOLLAND ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B72 1RL
ODS code M85033
2.7 km
HILLCREST SURGERY
9 TWICKENHAM ROAD, KINGSTANDING, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0NN
ODS code M85016
2.8 km
EDEN COURT MEDICAL PRACTICE
200 TANGMERE DRIVE, CASTLE VALE, BIRMINGHAM, B35 6EE
ODS code M85079
2.9 km
SHAH ZAMAN SURGERY
70 TANGMERE DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, B35 7QX
ODS code M85001
2.9 km
COLLEGE ROAD SURGERY
452 COLLEGE ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0HL
ODS code M85087
3.2 km
AYLESBURY SURGERY
AYLESBURY HOUSE, WARREN FARM ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0DX
ODS code M85779
3.4 km
FIRS SURGERY
87 KEMPSON ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B36 8LR
ODS code M85107
3.5 km
HODGE HILL FAMILY PRACTICE
1ST FLOOR HODGE HILL PCC, ROUGHLEA AVENUE, HODGE HILL, BIRMINGHAM, B36 8GH
ODS code Y02567
3.9 km
KINGSTANDING CIRCLE SURGERY
26 ROUGH ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0UY
ODS code M85155
4.3 km
BUCKLANDS END LANE SURGERY
36 BUCKLANDS END LANE, BIRMINGHAM, B34 6BP
ODS code M85113
4.4 km
Showing 20 of 28 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Harman Road
BCT · Yenton
- 0.1 miles
The Yenton
BCT · Yenton
- 0.1 miles
Birmingham Road
BCT · Yenton
- 0.1 miles
Birmingham Road
BCT · Yenton
- 0.1 miles
Harman Road
BCT · Yenton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 018B, 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
7,518 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,963 published events cover 12 months, averaging 330.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,590 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.