Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. Dordon Primary School is the nearest published school at 553 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B78 1SB
Dordon · North Warwickshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Dordon
- Local authority
- North Warwickshire
- Constituency
- North Warwickshire and Bedworth
- Postcode district
- B78
- Postcode sector
- B78 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B78 1SB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 2007
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B78
- Postcode sector
- B78 1
- Latitude
- 52.608583
- Longitude
- -1.611822
- British National Grid easting
- 426,383
- British National Grid northing
- 301,269
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- North Warwickshire · E07000218
- Electoral ward
- Dordon · E05007465
- Parish or community
- E04009639
- Westminster constituency
- North Warwickshire and Bedworth · E14001400
- Output area
- E00158160
- Lower layer super output area
- North Warwickshire 002B · E01031025
- Middle layer super output area
- North Warwickshire 002 · E02006469
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 B78
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 553 m
Dordon Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 607 m
Birchwood Primary School
Academy converter
- 628 m
The Polesworth School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 574
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 232
- Anti social behaviour 119
- Other theft 43
- Vehicle crime 39
- Public order 36
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B78 1 residents
- 10,390
Age bands in B78 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.3%
1,755 residents
1,106 residents
2,658 residents
2,825 residents
2,126 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+
- 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
DORDON & POLESWORTH GROUP PRACTICE
162 LONG STREET, DORDON, TAMWORTH, B78 1QA
ODS code M84007
529 m
DR KHARE'S SURGERY
STONEYDELPH MEDICAL CTR, ELLERBECK, STONYDELPH, TAMWORTH, B77 4JA
ODS code M83113
2.9 km
HEATHVIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
CALEDONIAN, TAMWORTH, B77 2ED
ODS code M83110
3.8 km
TRI-LINKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRI-LINKS, 130 TAMWORTH ROAD, AMINGTON, TAMWORTH, B77 3BZ
ODS code M83693
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Morris Hill
BCT · Dordon
- 0.2 miles
St Leonards View
BCT · Dordon
- 0.2 miles
Morris Hill
BCT · Dordon
- 0.2 miles
St Leonards View
BCT · Dordon
- 0.2 miles
Cross Walk
BCT · Dordon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North Warwickshire 002B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,587 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
574 published events cover 12 months, averaging 47.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 232 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.