Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 5 secondary schools. Longwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 861 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B78 3TQ
Fazeley · Lichfield · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B78 3TQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B78
- Postcode sector
- B78 3
- Latitude
- 52.618413
- Longitude
- -1.714643
- British National Grid easting
- 419,416
- British National Grid northing
- 302,330
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Lichfield · E07000194
- Electoral ward
- Fazeley · E05010661
- Parish or community
- E04008925
- Westminster constituency
- Tamworth · E14001538
- Output area
- E00150322
- Lower layer super output area
- Lichfield 012C · E01029503
- Middle layer super output area
- Lichfield 012 · E02006157
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
- 42
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 5
- 861 m
Longwood Primary School
Foundation school
- 1.1 km
Millfield Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Dunstall Park Primary School
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,221
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 410
- Shoplifting 296
- Anti social behaviour 107
- Public order 103
- Vehicle crime 84
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B78 3 residents
- 9,847
Age bands in B78 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.8%
1,588 residents
1,063 residents
2,383 residents
2,969 residents
2,096 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
9
within 5 km straight-line
RIVERSIDE SURGERY
41-42 BALFOUR, TAMWORTH, B79 7BH
ODS code M83111
1.9 km
THE PEEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
DOCTORS SURGERY, THE PEEL PRACTICE, 2 ALDERGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7DJ
ODS code M83148
2.2 km
CROWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
TAMWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, UPPER GUNGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7EA
ODS code M83117
2.4 km
HOLLIES PRACTICE
TAMWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, UPPER GUNGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7EA
ODS code M83088
2.4 km
LAUREL HOUSE SURGERY
12 ALBERT ROAD, TAMWORTH, B79 7JN
ODS code M83062
2.5 km
THE ALDERGATE MED.PRACT.
THE MOUNT, 10 SALTERS LANE, TAMWORTH, B79 8BH
ODS code M83032
2.6 km
HEATHVIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
CALEDONIAN, TAMWORTH, B77 2ED
ODS code M83110
3.5 km
TRI-LINKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRI-LINKS, 130 TAMWORTH ROAD, AMINGTON, TAMWORTH, B77 3BZ
ODS code M83693
3.9 km
DR KHARE'S SURGERY
STONEYDELPH MEDICAL CTR, ELLERBECK, STONYDELPH, TAMWORTH, B77 4JA
ODS code M83113
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Deer Park Road
BCT · Bonehill
- 0.1 miles
Deer Park Road
BCT · Bonehill
- 0.1 miles
Brewster Close
BCT · Bonehill
- 0.1 miles
Brewster Close
BCT · Bonehill
- 0.1 miles
Lakeside Business Park
BCT · Bonehill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Lichfield 012C, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,715 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,221 published events cover 12 months, averaging 101.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 410 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.