Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 8 secondary schools. Beoley First School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
B98 9BY
Alvechurch South · Bromsgrove · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Alvechurch South
- Local authority
- Bromsgrove
- Constituency
- Bromsgrove
- Postcode district
- B98
- Postcode sector
- B98 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- B98 9BY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- B
- Postcode district
- B98
- Postcode sector
- B98 9
- Latitude
- 52.336154
- Longitude
- -1.897213
- British National Grid easting
- 407,100
- British National Grid northing
- 270,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- West Midlands · E12000005
- Local authority district
- Bromsgrove · E07000234
- Electoral ward
- Alvechurch South · E05009823
- Parish or community
- E04010266
- Westminster constituency
- Bromsgrove · E14001138
- Output area
- E00163861
- Lower layer super output area
- Bromsgrove 009B · E01032123
- Middle layer super output area
- Bromsgrove 009 · E02006704
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
- 27
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 8
- 1.3 km
Beoley First School
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- 2.1 km
Abbeywood First School
Academy converter
- 2.1 km
Church Hill Middle School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 37
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 16
- Other theft 6
- Criminal damage and arson 5
- Burglary 4
- Anti social behaviour 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- B98 9 residents
- 6,985
Age bands in B98 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.5%
1,213 residents
699 residents
1,808 residents
1,599 residents
1,456 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
WINYATES HEALTH CENTRE
WINYATES CENTRE, WINYATES WAY, REDDITCH, B98 0NR
ODS code M81019
3.7 km
TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN MED CTR
THE BIRCHES, BROAD LANE, TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN, SOLIHULL, B94 5DP
ODS code M84047
3.9 km
ELGAR HOUSE
CHURCH ROAD, REDDITCH, B97 4AB
ODS code M81002
4.4 km
THE DOW SURGERY
WILLIAM STREET, REDDITCH, B97 4AJ
ODS code M81020
4.4 km
ST STEPHEN'S MEDICAL PARTNERSHIP
ST. STEPHENS SURGERY, ADELAIDE STREET, REDDITCH, B97 4AL
ODS code M81001
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.9 miles
Beoley First School
BCT · Beoley
- 0.9 miles
Beoley First School
BCT · Beoley
- 0.9 miles
Moss Lane
BCT · Holt End
- 0.9 miles
Moss Lane
BCT · Holt End
- 0.9 miles
Holt Hill
BCT · Holt End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bromsgrove 009B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,620 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 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
37 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 16 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.