Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 5 secondary schools. Mortimer House School is the nearest published school at 179 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B79 7JX
Spital · Tamworth · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B79 7JX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 2005
- Terminated
- 1 November 2005
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B79
- Postcode sector
- B79 7
- Latitude
- 52.636894
- Longitude
- -1.688930
- British National Grid easting
- 421,148
- British National Grid northing
- 304,393
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Tamworth · E07000199
- Electoral ward
- Spital · E05007072
- Parish or community
- E43000133
- Westminster constituency
- Tamworth · E14001538
- Output area
- E00168396
- Lower layer super output area
- Tamworth 002E · E01029851
- Middle layer super output area
- Tamworth 002 · E02006218
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
Property
19 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Consort Place, Flat 38, Albert Road, Tamworth, B79 7JX | 22 May 2007 | £138,500 |
| Consort Place, Flat 33, Albert Road, Tamworth, B79 7JX | 27 April 2007 | £132,000 |
| Consort Place, Flat 22, Albert Road, Tamworth, B79 7JX | 29 September 2006 | £128,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 5
- 179 m
Mortimer House School
Other independent special school
- 442 m
Landau Forte Academy Tamworth Sixth Form
Academy 16 to 19 sponsor led
- 557 m
Landau Forte Academy, QEMS
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,672
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,018
- Shoplifting 337
- Anti social behaviour 284
- Public order 254
- Vehicle crime 186
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.
GP practices
9
within 5 km straight-line
LAUREL HOUSE SURGERY
12 ALBERT ROAD, TAMWORTH, B79 7JN
ODS code M83062
279 m
CROWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
TAMWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, UPPER GUNGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7EA
ODS code M83117
419 m
HOLLIES PRACTICE
TAMWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, UPPER GUNGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7EA
ODS code M83088
419 m
THE ALDERGATE MED.PRACT.
THE MOUNT, 10 SALTERS LANE, TAMWORTH, B79 8BH
ODS code M83032
516 m
THE PEEL MEDICAL PRACTICE
DOCTORS SURGERY, THE PEEL PRACTICE, 2 ALDERGATE, TAMWORTH, B79 7DJ
ODS code M83148
613 m
RIVERSIDE SURGERY
41-42 BALFOUR, TAMWORTH, B79 7BH
ODS code M83111
877 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
2.4 km
DR KHARE'S SURGERY
STONEYDELPH MEDICAL CTR, ELLERBECK, STONYDELPH, TAMWORTH, B77 4JA
ODS code M83113
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Rail Station
BCT · Tamworth Town Centre
- 0.0 miles
Rail Station
BCT · Tamworth Town Centre
- 0.0 miles
The Albert PH
BCT · Tamworth Town Centre
- 0.1 miles
Rail Station
BCT · Tamworth Town Centre
- 0.1 miles
Tamworth Rail Station
RSE · Tamworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tamworth 002E, 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
12,964 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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
2,672 published events cover 12 months, averaging 222.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,018 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.