Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 8 secondary schools. Langley School is the nearest published school at 447 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B74 2XL
Sutton Four Oaks · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sutton Four Oaks
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Sutton Coldfield
- Postcode district
- B74
- Postcode sector
- B74 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B74 2XL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B74
- Postcode sector
- B74 2
- Latitude
- 52.583303
- Longitude
- -1.830225
- British National Grid easting
- 411,600
- British National Grid northing
- 298,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- Sutton Four Oaks · E05011174
- Parish or community
- E04012653
- Westminster constituency
- Sutton Coldfield · E14001535
- Output area
- E00047725
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 002D · E01009425
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 002 · E02001828
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 B74
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 8
- 447 m
Langley School
Foundation special school
- 493 m
Coppice Primary School
Foundation school
- 587 m
Mere Green Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 821
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 293
- Shoplifting 129
- Vehicle crime 117
- Burglary 61
- Criminal damage and arson 44
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B74 2 residents
- 9,596
Age bands in B74 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.9%
1,618 residents
1,010 residents
2,307 residents
2,931 residents
2,474 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
SUTTON COLDFIELD GROUP PRACTICE
233 TAMWORTH ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B75 6DX
ODS code M85046
1.7 km
THE MANOR PRACTICE
61 HOLLAND ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B72 1RL
ODS code M85033
2.8 km
BLACKWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
BLACKWOOD ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B74 3PL
ODS code M91637
4.2 km
KINGSTANDING CIRCLE SURGERY
26 ROUGH ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0UY
ODS code M85155
4.8 km
HILLCREST SURGERY
9 TWICKENHAM ROAD, KINGSTANDING, BIRMINGHAM, B44 0NN
ODS code M85016
4.9 km
THE HAWTHORNS SURGERY
331 BIRMINGHAM ROAD, SUTTON COLDFIELD, B72 1DL
ODS code M85175
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Cremorne Road
BCT · Mere Green
- 0.1 miles
Cremorne Road
BCT · Mere Green
- 0.1 miles
Jordan Road
BCT · Mere Green
- 0.2 miles
Jordan Road
BCT · Mere Green
- 0.2 miles
Four Oaks Rail Station
RSE · Four Oaks
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 002D, 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
24,064 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
821 published events cover 12 months, averaging 68.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 293 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.