Schools
184 open schools are in scope, including 99 primary and 26 secondary schools. Hodge Hill College is the nearest published school at 618 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B8 2DT
Ward End · Birmingham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ward End
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- Constituency
- Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North
- Postcode district
- B8
- Postcode sector
- B8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B8 2DT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B8
- Postcode sector
- B8 2
- Latitude
- 52.496088
- Longitude
- -1.821724
- British National Grid easting
- 412,200
- British National Grid northing
- 288,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Birmingham · E08000025
- Electoral ward
- Ward End · E05011183
- Parish or community
- E43000250
- Westminster constituency
- Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North · E14001095
- Output area
- E00048002
- Lower layer super output area
- Birmingham 044D · E01009481
- Middle layer super output area
- Birmingham 044 · E02001870
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 B8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 184
- Primary
- 99
- Secondary
- 26
- 618 m
Hodge Hill College
Community school
- 645 m
Washwood Heath Academy
Academy converter
- 651 m
Braidwood School for the Deaf
Foundation special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,537
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,443
- Shoplifting 757
- Criminal damage and arson 444
- Vehicle crime 412
- Public order 309
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B8 2 residents
- 17,682
Age bands in B8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 27.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 18.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.4%
4,593 residents
3,013 residents
4,643 residents
2,999 residents
1,220 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
60
within 5 km straight-line
WARD END MEDICAL CENTRE
794A WASHWOOD HEATH ROAD, WARD END, BIRMINGHAM, B8 2JN
ODS code M85066
458 m
PEARL MEDICAL CENTRE
619/621 WASHWOOD HEATH ROAD, WARD END, BIRMINGHAM, B8 2HB
ODS code M85803
915 m
COTTERILS LANE SURGERY
75-77 COTTERILLS LANE, ALUM ROCK, BIRMINGHAM, B8 3RZ
ODS code M85680
1.2 km
BUCKLANDS END LANE SURGERY
36 BUCKLANDS END LANE, BIRMINGHAM, B34 6BP
ODS code M85113
1.5 km
HODGE HILL FAMILY PRACTICE
1ST FLOOR HODGE HILL PCC, ROUGHLEA AVENUE, HODGE HILL, BIRMINGHAM, B36 8GH
ODS code Y02567
1.6 km
NASEBY MEDICAL CENTRE
NASEBY ROAD, SALTLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B8 3HE
ODS code M85722
1.8 km
FIRS SURGERY
87 KEMPSON ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B36 8LR
ODS code M85107
1.8 km
IRIDIUM MEDICAL PRACTICE
299 BORDESLEY GREEN EAST, STECHFORD, BIRMINGHAM, B33 8TA
ODS code Y02893
2.0 km
ALUM ROCK MEDICAL CENTRE
27-29 HIGHFIELD ROAD, SALTLEY, ALUM ROCK, BIRMINGHAM, B8 3QD
ODS code M85149
2.1 km
HAMD MEDICAL PRACTICE
4 CLODESHALL ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B8 3SW
ODS code Y03597
2.1 km
OAKLEAF
OAKLEAF MEDICAL PRACTICE, 4 CLODESHALL ROAD, SALTLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B8 3SW
ODS code Y02794
2.1 km
AMAANAH MEDICAL PRACTICE
CRADOCK ROAD, SALTLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B8 1RZ
ODS code Y01068
2.1 km
SALTLEY AND FERNBANK MEDICAL PRACTICE
SALTLEY HEALTH CENTRE, CRADOCK ROAD, SALTLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B8 1RZ
ODS code M85110
2.1 km
CHURCH LANE - KHAN
111-113 CHURCH LANE, KITTS GREEN, STECHFORD, BIRMINGHAM, B33 9EJ
ODS code M85013
2.1 km
GATE MEDICAL CENTRE
120 WASHWOOD HEATH ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B8 1RE
ODS code M85170
2.3 km
GREENFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
38 HAVELOCK ROAD, SALTLEY, BIRMINGHAM, B8 1RT
ODS code M85670
2.4 km
ALPHA MEDICAL PRACTICE
ALPHA MP, 38 ALUM ROCK RD, ALUM ROCK, BIRMINGHAM, B8 1JA
ODS code M85139
2.4 km
PAK HEALTH CENTRE
38 ALUM ROCK ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B8 1JA
ODS code M85739
2.4 km
KINGSBURY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
273 KINGSBURY ROAD, ERDINGTON, BIRMINGHAM, B24 8RD
ODS code M85014
2.4 km
SCHOOLACRE ROAD SURGERY
2 SCHOOLACRE ROAD, SHARD END, BIRMINGHAM, B34 6RB
ODS code M85141
2.4 km
Showing 20 of 60 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Old Bromford Lane
BCT · Ward End
- 0.0 miles
Old Bromford Lane
BCT · Ward End
- 0.1 miles
Brockhurst Road
BCT · Ward End
- 0.1 miles
St Margarets Road
BCT · Ward End
- 0.2 miles
Fox & Goose
BCT · Ward End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Birmingham 044D, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
3,136 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
5,537 published events cover 12 months, averaging 461.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,443 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.