Schools
102 open schools are in scope, including 61 primary and 14 secondary schools. Penns Primary School is the nearest published school at 252 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B72 1BN
Sutton Wylde Green · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Sutton Coldfield
- Ward
- Sutton Wylde Green
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Sutton Coldfield
- Postcode district
- B72
- Postcode sector
- B72 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B72 1BN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B72
- Postcode sector
- B72 1
- Latitude
- 52.535212
- Longitude
- -1.815976
- British National Grid easting
- 412,579
- British National Grid northing
- 293,053
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- Sutton Wylde Green · E05011181
- Parish or community
- E04012653
- Westminster constituency
- Sutton Coldfield · E14001535
- Output area
- E00047966
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 015C · E01009461
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 015 · E02001841
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
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 165, Penns Lane, Sutton Coldfield, B72 1BN | 20 May 2016 | £490,000 |
| 165, Penns Lane, Sutton Coldfield, B72 1BN | 20 May 2016 | £490,000 |
| 167, Penns Lane, Sutton Coldfield, B72 1BN | 29 April 2016 | £490,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 102
- Primary
- 61
- Secondary
- 14
- 252 m
Penns Primary School
Community school
- 751 m
Yenton Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Wylde Green Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,395
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 906
- Shoplifting 483
- Vehicle crime 186
- Other theft 157
- Criminal damage and arson 153
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 3.4
- B72 1 residents
- 9,798
12 female, 12 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B72 1 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
25
within 5 km
THE HAWTHORNS SURGERY
331 BIRMINGHAM ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B72 1DL
ODS code M85175
784 m
SUTTON ROAD SURGERY
122 SUTTON ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 5TJ
ODS code M85115
859 m
ASHFIELD SURGERY
8 WALMLEY ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B76 1QN
ODS code M85026
1.3 km
POPLARS SURGERY
17 HOLLY LANE, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B24 9JN
ODS code M85065
1.3 km
MIDLANDS MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
EATON WOOD MEDICAL CENTRE, 1128 TYBURN ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B24 0SY
ODS code M85063
1.7 km
EDEN COURT MEDICAL PRACTICE
200 TANGMERE DRIVE, CASTLE VALE, BIRMINGHAM, B35 6EE
ODS code M85079
2.4 km
SHAH ZAMAN SURGERY
70 TANGMERE DRIVE, BIRMINGHAM, B35 7QX
ODS code M85001
2.5 km
THE MANOR PRACTICE
61 HOLLAND ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B72 1RL
ODS code M85033
2.6 km
KINGSBURY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
273 KINGSBURY ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B24 8RD
ODS code M85014
2.7 km
DR KHUROO'S PRACTICE
STOCKLAND GREEN PCC, 192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85716
3.1 km
RESERVOIR ROAD SURGERY
192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85070
3.1 km
TUDOR PRACTICE STOCKLAND GREEN
STOCKLAND GREEN HEALTH CENTRE, 192 RESERVOIR ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B23 6DJ
ODS code M85669
3.1 km
THE DOVE MEDICAL PRACTICE
60 DOVEDALE ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B23 5DD
ODS code M85081
3.3 km
FIRS SURGERY
87 KEMPSON ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B36 8LR
ODS code M85107
3.4 km
HILLCREST SURGERY
9 TWICKENHAM ROAD, KINGSTANDING, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0NN
ODS code M85016
3.5 km
HODGE HILL FAMILY PRACTICE
1ST FLOOR HODGE HILL PCC, ROUGHLEA AVENUE, HODGE HILL, BIRMINGHAM, B36 8GH
ODS code Y02567
3.7 km
COLLEGE ROAD SURGERY
452 COLLEGE ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0HL
ODS code M85087
4.0 km
PARKFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
10 PARKFIELD DRIVE, CASTLE BROMWICH, BIRMINGHAM, B36 9EJ
ODS code M89001
4.0 km
AYLESBURY SURGERY
AYLESBURY HOUSE, WARREN FARM ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0DX
ODS code M85779
4.2 km
BUCKLANDS END LANE SURGERY
36 BUCKLANDS END LANE, BIRMINGHAM, B34 6BP
ODS code M85113
4.3 km
Showing 20 of 25 matching practices.
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
Berwood Road
BCT · Yenton
- 0.0 miles
Berwood Road
BCT · Yenton
- 0.1 miles
Fourlands Avenue
BCT · Yenton
- 0.1 miles
The Chase
BCT · Walmley
- 0.1 miles
The Chase
BCT · Walmley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 015C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,894 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
2,395 published events cover 12 months, averaging 199.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 906 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.