Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 4 secondary schools. Dorridge Primary School is the nearest published school at 603 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B93 8HQ
Dorridge & Hockley Heath · Solihull · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Solihull
- Constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East
- Postcode district
- B93
- Postcode sector
- B93 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B93 8HQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B93
- Postcode sector
- B93 8
- Latitude
- 52.372805
- Longitude
- -1.754651
- British National Grid easting
- 416,800
- British National Grid northing
- 275,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Solihull · E08000029
- Electoral ward
- Dorridge & Hockley Heath · E05016420
- Parish or community
- E43000265
- Westminster constituency
- Meriden and Solihull East · E14001358
- Output area
- E00051482
- Lower layer super output area
- Solihull 028C · E01010185
- Middle layer super output area
- Solihull 028 · E02002108
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 B93
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 4
- 603 m
Dorridge Primary School
Academy converter
- 807 m
St George and St Teresa Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.5 km
Bentley Heath Church of England Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 410
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 165
- Vehicle crime 57
- Criminal damage and arson 42
- Shoplifting 38
- Burglary 31
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B93 8 residents
- 8,095
Age bands in B93 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.1%
1,502 residents
801 residents
1,486 residents
2,276 residents
1,818 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
DORRIDGE SURGERY
DOCTORS SURGERY, 3 AVENUE ROAD, DORRIDGE, SOLIHULL, B93 8LH
ODS code M89010
176 m
ARDEN MEDICAL CENTRE
DOWNING CLOSE, STATION ROAD, KNOWLE, SOLIHULL, B93 0QA
ODS code M89030
1.0 km
LAPWORTH SURGERY
OLD WARWICK ROAD, LAPWORTH, SOLIHULL, B94 6LH
ODS code M84620
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Near Dorridge Station
BCT · Dorridge
- 0.1 miles
Near Dorridge Station
BCT · Dorridge
- 0.1 miles
Dorridge Rail Station
BCT · Dorridge
- 0.1 miles
Dorridge Rail Station
RSE · Dorridge
- 0.1 miles
Dorridge Rail Station
RSE · Dorridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Solihull 028C, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
33,595 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
410 published events cover 12 months, averaging 34.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 165 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.