Schools
71 open schools are in scope, including 48 primary and 12 secondary schools. Light Hall School is the nearest published school at 720 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B90 2PL
Blythe · Solihull · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B90 2PL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B90
- Postcode sector
- B90 2
- Latitude
- 52.395866
- Longitude
- -1.839659
- British National Grid easting
- 411,007
- British National Grid northing
- 277,549
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Solihull · E08000029
- Electoral ward
- Blythe · E05016417
- Parish or community
- E04012011
- Westminster constituency
- Solihull West and Shirley · E14001479
- Output area
- E00168176
- Lower layer super output area
- Solihull 029B · E01010181
- Middle layer super output area
- Solihull 029 · E02002109
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 B90
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Whitlocks End Farm, The Pig Barn, Bills Lane, Shirley, Solihull, B90 2PL | 30 June 2021 | £350,000 |
| Whitlocks End Farm Cottage, 1, Bills Lane, Shirley, Solihull, B90 2PL | 21 May 2019 | £685,000 |
| Whitlocks End Farm Cottage, 1, Bills Lane, Shirley, Solihull, B90 2PL | 18 January 2013 | £490,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 71
- Primary
- 48
- Secondary
- 12
- 720 m
Light Hall School
Academy converter
- 809 m
Dickens Heath Community Primary School
Community school
- 894 m
Woodlands Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,321
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 426
- Shoplifting 274
- Vehicle crime 176
- Criminal damage and arson 87
- Public order 77
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 31
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- B90 2 residents
- 12,625
17 female, 14 male
Age bands in B90 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.5%
2,231 residents
1,250 residents
3,228 residents
3,418 residents
2,940 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider B90 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
GPS HEALTHCARE
198 TANWORTH LANE, SHIRLEY, SOLIHULL, B90 4DD
ODS code M89003
981 m
BALDWINS LANE SURGERY
265 BALDWINS LANE, HALL GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B28 0RF
ODS code M85118
2.1 km
GRAFTON ROAD SURGERY
11 GRAFTON ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOLIHULL, B90 1NG
ODS code M89024
2.4 km
HOLLYOAKS MEDICAL CENTRE
229 STATION ROAD, WYTHALL, BIRMINGHAM, B47 6ET
ODS code M81083
2.8 km
YARDLEY WOOD HEALTH CENTRE
401 HIGHFIELD ROAD, YARDLEY WOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B14 4DU
ODS code M85018
2.9 km
NORTHBROOK HEALTH CENTRE
93 NORTHBROOK ROAD, SHIRLEY, SOLIHULL, B90 3LX
ODS code M89015
2.9 km
HOLLYWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
BEAUDESERT ROAD, HOLLYWOOD, BIRMINGHAM, B47 5DP
ODS code M81064
3.0 km
MAYPOLE HEALTH SURGERY Y
10 SLADEPOOL FARM ROAD, KINGS HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B14 5DJ
ODS code M85179
3.4 km
DRUIDS HEATH SURGERY
27 POUND ROAD, DRUIDS HEATH, BIRMINGHAM, B14 5SB
ODS code M85136
4.2 km
GREEN RIDGE SURGERY
671 YARDLEY WOOD ROAD, BIRMINGHAM, B13 0HN
ODS code M85006
4.2 km
SWANSWELL MEDICAL CENTRE
370 GOSPEL LANE, ACOCKS GREEN, BIRMINGHAM, B27 7AL
ODS code M85177
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Lillington Road
BCT · Three Maypoles
- 0.4 miles
Lillington Road
BCT · Three Maypoles
- 0.5 miles
Antony Road
BCT · Haslucks Green
- 0.6 miles
Oberon Drive
BCT · Haslucks Green
- 0.6 miles
Oberon Drive
BCT · Haslucks Green
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Solihull 029B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,013 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
- 1
- 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
1,321 published events cover 12 months, averaging 110.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 426 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.