Schools
40 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 11 secondary schools. Woodfield Academy is the nearest published school at 562 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B98 8YS
Greenlands & Lakeside · Redditch · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B98 8YS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2016
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B98
- Postcode sector
- B98 8
- Latitude
- 52.300371
- Longitude
- -1.916961
- British National Grid easting
- 405,759
- British National Grid northing
- 266,918
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Redditch · E07000236
- Electoral ward
- Greenlands & Lakeside · E05015618
- Parish or community
- E43000152
- Westminster constituency
- Redditch · E14001441
- Output area
- E00164559
- Lower layer super output area
- Redditch 007B · E01032263
- Middle layer super output area
- Redditch 007 · E02006727
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 B98
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 40
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 11
- 562 m
Woodfield Academy
Academy converter
- 715 m
St Bede's Catholic Middle School
Academy converter
- 783 m
Oak Hill First School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,294
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 947
- Shoplifting 298
- Anti social behaviour 243
- Criminal damage and arson 175
- Public order 146
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B98 8 residents
- 8,704
Age bands in B98 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.6%
1,621 residents
969 residents
2,430 residents
2,054 residents
1,511 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
10
within 5 km
WINYATES HEALTH CENTRE
WINYATES CENTRE, WINYATES WAY, REDDITCH, B98 0NR
ODS code M81019
1.6 km
THE DOW SURGERY
WILLIAM STREET, REDDITCH, B97 4AJ
ODS code M81020
1.9 km
ELGAR HOUSE
CHURCH ROAD, REDDITCH, B97 4AB
ODS code M81002
1.9 km
ST STEPHEN'S MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
ST. STEPHENS SURGERY, ADELAIDE STREET, REDDITCH, B97 4AL
ODS code M81001
2.0 km
THE BRIDGE SURGERY
8 EVESHAM ROAD, REDDITCH, B97 4LA
ODS code M81092
2.1 km
HILLVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
60 BROMSGROVE ROAD, REDDITCH, B97 4RN
ODS code M81041
2.4 km
CRABBS CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
THE MEDICAL CENTRE, 39 KENILWORTH CLOSE, CRABBS CROSS, REDDITCH, B97 5JX
ODS code M81616
2.8 km
CRABBS CROSS SURGERY
1 KENILWORTH CLOSE, CRABBS CROSS, REDDITCH, B97 5JX
ODS code M81617
2.8 km
POOL MEDICAL CENTRE
POOL ROAD, STUDLEY, B80 7QU
ODS code M84002
3.6 km
THE RIDGEWAY SURGERY
6-8 FECKENHAM ROAD, ASTWOOD BANK, REDDITCH, B96 6DS
ODS code M81077
4.7 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Barlich Way
BCT · Lodge Park
- 0.3 miles
Barlich Way
BCT · Lodge Park
- 0.3 miles
Arrowdale Road
BCT · Lakeside
- 0.3 miles
Watery Lane
BCT · Greenlands
- 0.3 miles
Arthur Street
BCT · Lakeside
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Redditch 007B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,219 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
2,294 published events cover 12 months, averaging 191.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 947 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.