Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 5 secondary schools. Mortimer House School is the nearest published school at 379 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B79 7AG
Castle · Tamworth · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B79 7AG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2012
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B79
- Postcode sector
- B79 7
- Latitude
- 52.632029
- Longitude
- -1.688388
- British National Grid easting
- 421,187
- British National Grid northing
- 303,852
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Tamworth · E07000199
- Electoral ward
- Castle · E05007069
- Parish or community
- E43000133
- Westminster constituency
- Tamworth · E14001538
- Output area
- E00152048
- Lower layer super output area
- Tamworth 005C · E01029838
- Middle layer super output area
- Tamworth 005 · E02006221
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 B79
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 5
- 379 m
Mortimer House School
Other independent special school
- 524 m
William MacGregor Primary School
Academy converter
- 559 m
Kettlebrook Short Stay School
Pupil referral unit
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,823
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,039
- Shoplifting 430
- Anti social behaviour 283
- Public order 267
- Vehicle crime 189
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B79 7 residents
- 6,347
Age bands in B79 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.5%
752 residents
591 residents
1,578 residents
1,771 residents
1,602 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
9
within 5 km
LAUREL HOUSE SURGERY
12 ALBERT ROAD, TAMWORTH, B79 7JN
ODS code M83062
598 m
THE PEEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
DOCTORS SURGERY, THE PEEL PRACTICE, 2 ALDERGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7DJ
ODS code M83148
678 m
CROWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
TAMWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, UPPER GUNGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7EA
ODS code M83117
703 m
HOLLIES PRACTICE
TAMWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, UPPER GUNGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7EA
ODS code M83088
703 m
RIVERSIDE SURGERY
41-42 BALFOUR, TAMWORTH, B79 7BH
ODS code M83111
754 m
THE ALDERGATE MED.PRACT.
THE MOUNT, 10 SALTERS LANE, TAMWORTH, B79 8BH
ODS code M83032
927 m
TRI-LINKS MEDICAL PRACTICE
TRI-LINKS, 130 TAMWORTH ROAD, AMINGTON, TAMWORTH, B77 3BZ
ODS code M83693
1.7 km
HEATHVIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
CALEDONIAN, TAMWORTH, B77 2ED
ODS code M83110
2.0 km
DR KHARE'S SURGERY
STONEYDELPH MEDICAL CTR, ELLERBECK, STONYDELPH, TAMWORTH, B77 4JA
ODS code M83113
3.0 km
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
- 0.1 miles
Cycleway
BCT · Bolehall
- 0.1 miles
Cycleway
BCT · Bolehall
- 0.1 miles
Aldi Store
BCT · Tamworth Town Centre
- 0.1 miles
Kettlebrook Road
BCT · Bolehall
- 0.1 miles
Aldi Store
BCT · Tamworth Town Centre
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tamworth 005C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,323 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
- 2
- 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
2,823 published events cover 12 months, averaging 235.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,039 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.