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{{short description|Postcode area within the United Kingdom}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2025}}
{{Infobox UK postcode area|area_code=B}}
The '''B postcode area''', also known as the '''Birmingham postcode area''',<ref>Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004)</ref> is a group of 79 postcode districts in central England, within 15 post towns. These cover the central portion of the [[West Midlands (county)|West Midlands]] (including [[Birmingham]], [[West Bromwich]], [[Sutton Coldfield]], [[Smethwick]], [[Solihull]], [[Halesowen]], [[Cradley Heath]], [[Oldbury, West Midlands|Oldbury]] and [[Rowley Regis]]), plus northeast [[Worcestershire]] (including [[Bromsgrove]] and [[Redditch]]), north and west [[Warwickshire]] (including [[Alcester]], [[Studley, Warwickshire|Studley]] and [[Henley-in-Arden]]), and part of southeast [[Staffordshire]] (including [[Tamworth, Staffordshire|Tamworth]]) and a very small part of [[Leicestershire]]. It is the [[List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom by population|most populated postcode area in the United Kingdom]], with a population of over 1.9 million.

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==Coverage==
The approximate coverage of the postcode districts:

'''B1-B48: BIRMINGHAM Post Town'''
{{postcode area table start}}
<onlyinclude> 
! {{anchor|B1}}B1
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Birmingham City Centre]], [[Broad Street, Birmingham|Broad Street]] (east), [[Jewellery Quarter]]
| [[Birmingham]]
|-
! {{anchor|B2}}B2
| BIRMINGHAM
| Birmingham City Centre, [[New Street, Birmingham|New Street]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B3}}B3
| BIRMINGHAM
| Birmingham City Centre, [[Newhall Street]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B4}}B4
| BIRMINGHAM
| Birmingham City Centre, [[Corporation Street, Birmingham|Corporation Street]] (north), [[Aston University]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B5}}B5
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Digbeth]], [[Highgate, Birmingham|Highgate]], [[Lee Bank]], [[Edgbaston]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B6}}B6
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Aston]], [[Birchfield, Birmingham|Birchfield]], [[Witton, West Midlands|Witton]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B7}}B7
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Nechells]], Vauxhall, [[Ashted]], [[Duddeston]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B8}}B8
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Washwood Heath]], [[Ward End]], [[Saltley]], [[Alum Rock, Birmingham|Alum Rock]], [[Pelham, Birmingham|Pelham]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B9}}B9
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Bordesley Green]], [[Bordesley, West Midlands|Bordesley]], [[Small Heath, Birmingham|Small Heath]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B10}}B10
| BIRMINGHAM
| Small Heath
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B11}}B11
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Sparkhill]], Sparkbrook, [[Tyseley]], [[Greet, Birmingham|Greet]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B12}}B12
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Balsall Heath]], [[Sparkbrook]], [[Highgate, Birmingham|Highgate]], [[Deritend]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B13}}B13
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Moseley]], [[Billesley, West Midlands|Billesley]], Moor Green
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B14}}B14
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Kings Heath]], [[Yardley Wood]], [[Druids Heath]], [[Highter's Heath]], [[Warstock]], [[Maypole, Birmingham|Maypole]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B15}}B15
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Edgbaston]], [[Westside, Birmingham|Westside]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B16}}B16
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Ladywood]], [[Edgbaston]], [[Rotton Park]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B17}}B17
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Harborne]], [[Edgbaston]], [[Moor Pool]], [[Bearwood, West Midlands|Bearwood]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B18}}B18
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Winson Green]], [[Hockley, West Midlands|Hockley]], [[Soho, West Midlands|Soho]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B19}}B19
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Lozells and East Handsworth (ward)|Lozells and East Handsworth]], [[Lozells]], [[Newtown, Birmingham|Newtown]], [[Birchfield, Birmingham|Birchfield]], Gib Hill, Hockley
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B20}}B20
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Handsworth Wood]], [[Handsworth, West Midlands|Handsworth]], [[Birchfield, Birmingham|Birchfield]], [[Browns Green]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B21}}B21
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Handsworth, West Midlands|Handsworth]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B23}}B23
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Erdington]], [[Stockland Green]], [[Short Heath, Birmingham|Short Heath]], [[Perry Common]], [[Gravelly Hill]], Upper Witton, [[Short Heath, Birmingham|Short Heath]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B24}}B24
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Erdington]], [[Wylde Green]], [[Tyburn, West Midlands|Tyburn]], [[Bromford]], Gravelly Hill
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B25}}B25
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Yardley, Birmingham|Yardley]], [[Hay Mills]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B26}}B26
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Sheldon, West Midlands|Sheldon]], [[Yardley, Birmingham|Yardley]], [[Birmingham International Airport, West Midlands|Birmingham International Airport]], [[Gilbertstone]], Lyndon Green, [[Elmdon, West Midlands|Elmdon]]
| Birmingham, [[Metropolitan Borough of Solihull|Solihull]]
|-
! {{anchor|B27}}B27
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Acocks Green]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B28}}B28
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Hall Green]], Haslucks Green, [[Yardley Wood]]
| Birmingham
|-
! {{anchor|B29}}B29
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Selly Oak]], [[Bournbrook]], [[Selly Park]], [[Weoley Castle]], [[Shenley Green]], [[California, Birmingham|California]], Moor Green
| Birmingham
|-
! B30
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Bournville]], [[Cotteridge]], [[Stirchley, West Midlands|Stirchley]], [[Kings Norton]]
| Birmingham
|-
! B31
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Northfield, Birmingham|Northfield]], [[Longbridge]], [[West Heath, West Midlands|West Heath]], [[Shenley Green]], [[Frankley]], [[Bartley Green]]
| Birmingham
|-
! B32
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Woodgate, Birmingham|Woodgate]], [[Bartley Green]], [[Quinton, Birmingham|Quinton]], [[California, Birmingham|California]], [[Frankley]], Frankley Green
| Birmingham
|-
! B33
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Kitts Green]], [[Stechford]], [[Lea Hall]], Garretts Green, Lyndon Green
| Birmingham
|-
! B34
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Shard End]], [[Buckland End]]
| Birmingham
|-
! B35
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Castle Vale]]
| Birmingham
|-
! B36
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Castle Bromwich]], [[Smith's Wood]], [[Bromford]], [[Hodge Hill]], [[Washwood Heath]]
| Birmingham, [[Metropolitan Borough of Solihull|Solihull]]
|-
! B37
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Chelmsley Wood]], [[Marston Green]], [[Kingshurst]], [[Fordbridge]]
| Solihull
|-
! B38
| BIRMINGHAM
| Kings Norton, [[Hawkesley]], Headley Heath, [[Forhill]]
| Birmingham
|-
! B40
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[National Exhibition Centre]], [[Birmingham International Airport, West Midlands|Birmingham International Airport]], [[Marston Green]], [[Bickenhill]]
| Solihull
|-
! B42
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Perry Barr]], [[Great Barr]], [[Hamstead, West Midlands|Hamstead]]
| Birmingham
|-
! B43
| BIRMINGHAM
| Great Barr, Hamstead, [[Pheasey]], Newton
| Birmingham, Sandwell, Walsall
|-
! B44
| BIRMINGHAM
| Perry Barr, [[Kingstanding]], Great Barr, [[Old Oscott]], [[Queslett]]
| Birmingham
|-
! B45
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Rednal]], [[New Frankley]], [[Rubery]], [[Cofton Hackett]], [[Barnt Green]], [[Lickey]], [[Longbridge]], [[Northfield, Birmingham|Northfield]], [[Apes Dale]]
| Birmingham, [[Bromsgrove District|Bromsgrove]]
|-
! B46
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Coleshill, Warwickshire|Coleshill]], [[Water Orton]], [[Shustoke]], [[Nether Whitacre]], Blyth End, [[Furnace End]], Duke End, [[Maxstoke]], [[Lea Marston]], [[Castle Vale]]
| [[North Warwickshire]]
|-
! B47
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Hollywood, Worcestershire|Hollywood]], [[Wythall]]
| Bromsgrove
|-
! B48
| BIRMINGHAM
| [[Alvechurch]], Cobley Hill, [[Rowney Green]], Portway, Weatheroak Hill, Lea End, Arrowfield Top, [[Barnt Green]]
| Bromsgrove
|- style="background:#FFFFFF;"
! B99
| BIRMINGHAM
|
| ''non-geographic''
</onlyinclude> 
|}
'''B49-61; B80-B98: South and East of the BIRMINGHAM Post Town'''
{{postcode area table start}}
<onlyinclude> 
|-
! B49
| ALCESTER
| [[Alcester]], [[Shelfield, Warwickshire|Shelfield]], Shelfield Green, [[Aston Cantlow]], [[Great Alne]], [[Walcote, Warwickshire|Walcote]], [[Upton, Warwickshire|Upton]], [[Temple Grafton]], [[Wixford]], Wood Bevington, [[Weethley]], [[Cookhill]], New End, [[Coughton, Warwickshire|Coughton]], Kings Coughton, [[Arrow, Warwickshire|Arrow]], [[Kinwarton]]
| [[Stratford-on-Avon District|Stratford-on-Avon]]
|-
! B50
| ALCESTER
| [[Bidford-on-Avon]], [[Broom, Warwickshire|Broom]], [[Wixford]], [[Temple Grafton]], [[Barton, Warwickshire|Barton]], [[Bickmarsh]]
| Stratford-on-Avon
|-
! B60
| BROMSGROVE
| [[Bromsgrove]], [[Stoke Prior, Worcestershire|Stoke Prior]], [[Charford]]
| Bromsgrove
|-
! B61
| BROMSGROVE
| Bromsgrove, [[Dodford, Worcestershire|Dodford]], [[Catshill]], [[Bournheath]], [[Fairfield, Worcestershire|Fairfield]]
| Bromsgrove
|-
! B80
| STUDLEY
| [[Studley, Warwickshire|Studley]], Green Lane, [[Mappleborough Green]], Outhill, [[Morton Bagot]], [[Spernall]]
| Stratford-on-Avon
|-
! B90
| SOLIHULL
| [[Shirley, West Midlands|Shirley]], [[Solihull Lodge]], [[Major's Green]], [[Dickens Heath]], [[Cheswick Green]], [[Shelly Green]], [[Blossomfield]], [[Hollywood, Worcestershire|Hollywood]]
| Solihull, Bromsgrove
|-
! B91
| SOLIHULL
| [[Solihull]], [[Blossomfield]], Worlds End, [[Catherine-de-Barnes]]
| Solihull
|-
! B92
| SOLIHULL
| [[Olton]], [[Elmdon, West Midlands|Elmdon]], [[Bickenhill]], [[Hampton-in-Arden]], [[Barston]]
| Solihull
|-
! B93
| SOLIHULL
| [[Baddesley Clinton (village)|Baddesley Clinton]], [[Bentley Heath]], [[Dorridge]], [[Knowle, West Midlands|Knowle]], Tilehouse Green, Oldwich Lane, [[Chadwick End]]
| Solihull
|-
! B94
| SOLIHULL
| [[Hockley Heath]], [[Earlswood, West Midlands|Earlswood]], Trap's Green, Aspley Heath, [[Wood End, Stratford-on-Avon|Wood End]], Portway
| Solihull, Warwick, Stratford-on-Avon
|-
! B95
| HENLEY-IN-ARDEN
| [[Henley-in-Arden]], [[Wooton Wawen]], [[Beaudesert, Warwickshire|Beaudesert]], Finwood, High Cross, Preston Green, [[Langley, Warwickshire|Langley]], Edstone, [[Aston Cantlow]], [[Oldberrow]], [[Gorcott Hill]], [[Ullenhall]], [[Buckley Green]]
| Stratford-on-Avon
|-
! B96
| REDDITCH
| [[Feckenham]], [[Astwood Bank]], [[Bradley Green, Worcestershire|Bradley Green]], [[Sambourne]], Edgiock, New End, [[Holberrow Green]], Stock Green
| [[Redditch]]
|-
! B97
| REDDITCH
| [[Redditch]], [[Callow Hill, Worcestershire|Callow Hill]], [[Webheath]], [[Ham Green, Worcestershire|Ham Green]], [[Elcocks Brook]], Crumpfield, [[Hewell Grange]], [[Tardebigge]], Lower Bentley
| Redditch
|-
! B98
| REDDITCH
| Redditch, [[Beoley]], Aspley Heath, Trap's Green, [[Gorcott Hill]], [[Mappleborough Green]]
| Redditch
</onlyinclude> 
|}
'''B62-B71: The Black Country'''
{{postcode area table start}}
<onlyinclude> 
|-
! B62
|HALESOWEN
| [[Halesowen]], [[Romsley, Worcestershire|Romsley]], [[Hunnington]], [[Quinton, Birmingham|Quinton]]
| [[Metropolitan Borough of Dudley|Dudley]], Bromsgrove, Birmingham
|-
! B63
| HALESOWEN
| Halesowen, [[Hayley Green, West Midlands|Hayley Green]], [[Hasbury]], [[Cradley, West Midlands|Cradley]]
| Dudley, Bromsgrove
|-
! B64
| CRADLEY HEATH
| [[Cradley Heath]], [[Old Hill]], Haden Cross
| [[Sandwell]]
|-
! B65
| ROWLEY REGIS
| [[Rowley Regis]], [[Blackheath, West Midlands|Blackheath]], Coombeswood, Brades
| Sandwell
|-
! B66
| SMETHWICK
| [[Smethwick]], [[Bearwood, West Midlands|Bearwood]], [[Warley, West Midlands|Warley]], Rood End
| Sandwell
|-
! B67
| SMETHWICK
| Smethwick, Bearwood, [[Londonderry, West Midlands|Londonderry]], Rood End
| Sandwell
|-
! B68
| OLDBURY
| [[Langley Green, West Midlands|Langley]], [[Brandhall]], [[Quinton, Birmingham|Quinton]], Londonderry, Causeway Green, Bristnall Fields, Rood End
| Sandwell
|-
! B69
| OLDBURY
| [[Oldbury, West Midlands|Oldbury]], [[Tividale]], Brades, Langley, [[Oakham, West Midlands|Oakham]]
| Sandwell
|-
! B70
| WEST BROMWICH
| [[West Bromwich]], [[Lyng, West Midlands|Lyng]], [[Swan Village]], Golds Green, Balls Hill, Guns Village
| Sandwell
|-
! B71
| WEST BROMWICH
| West Bromwich, Balls Hill, [[Stone Cross, West Midlands|Stone Cross]]
| Sandwell
</onlyinclude> 
|}
'''B72-B79: North of the BIRMINGHAM Post Town'''
{{postcode area table start}}
<onlyinclude> 
|-
! B72
| SUTTON COLDFIELD
| [[Sutton Coldfield]] town centre, [[Maney]], [[Wylde Green]], The Parade, [[Driffold]]
| Birmingham
|-
! B73
| SUTTON COLDFIELD
| [[Boldmere]], [[Oscott (ward)|Oscott]], [[Wylde Green]], The Parade, [[Driffold]]
| Birmingham
|-
! B74
| SUTTON COLDFIELD
| [[Four Oaks, Birmingham|Four Oaks]], [[Little Aston]], [[Streetly]], [[Hill Hook]], [[Mere Green, Birmingham|Mere Green]], Hardwick
| Birmingham, [[Lichfield District|Lichfield]], [[Metropolitan Borough of Walsall|Walsall]]
|-
! B75
| SUTTON COLDFIELD
| [[Mere Green, Birmingham|Mere Green]], [[Roughley]], [[Moor Hall]], [[Whitehouse Common]], [[Falcon Lodge]], Canwell Hall, Bassets Pole
| Birmingham
|-
! B76
| SUTTON COLDFIELD
| [[Walmley]], [[Minworth]], [[Curdworth]], [[Lea Marston]], [[Wishaw, Warwickshire|Wishaw]], [[Curdworth]], [[Bodymoor Heath]]
| Birmingham, North Warwickshire
|-
! B77
| TAMWORTH
| [[Tamworth, Staffordshire|Tamworth]], [[Wilnecote]], [[Amington]], Belgrave, [[Glascote]], Glascote Hill, [[Stonydelph]], Hockley, [[Dosthill]], Whateley
| [[Borough of Tamworth|Tamworth]], North Warwickshire
|-
! B78
| TAMWORTH
| Tamworth, [[Fazeley]], [[Kingsbury, Warwickshire|Kingsbury]], [[Polesworth]], [[Hopwas]], [[Dordon]]
| Tamworth, North Warwickshire
|-
! B79
| TAMWORTH
| Tamworth, [[Warton, Warwickshire|Warton]], [[Hopwas]], [[Comberford]], [[Elford]], [[Edingale]], [[Harlaston]], [[Haunton]], [[Thorpe Constantine]], [[Newton Regis]], [[Shuttington]], [[Alvecote]], [[Borough Park, Tamworth|Borough Park]], Lichfield Road Industrial Estate
| Tamworth, North Warwickshire, [[North West Leicestershire]]
</onlyinclude> 
|}

==Notes==
*The B postcode area as a whole, is the largest by population.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/business-transparency/freedom-of-information/previous-foi-requests/people--population-and-community/population-for-every-postcode-district-in-england-and-wales/index.html |title=FOI request: Population for every postcode district in England and Wales |website=The National Archives |access-date=26 April 2021 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160105160709/http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/about-ons/business-transparency/freedom-of-information/previous-foi-requests/people--population-and-community/population-for-every-postcode-district-in-england-and-wales/index.html |archive-date=5 January 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
*B1 1AA is Birmingham Head Post office; this is no longer in the B1 area, but retains the B1 code.
*B1 1BB is [[Council House, Birmingham|Birmingham Council House]]<ref name="BCC">{{cite web|url=http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/contact|title=Contact Us|publisher=Birmingham City Council|access-date=2009-08-04| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090909171248/http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/contact| archive-date=September 9, 2009| url-status= live}}</ref>

==Maps==
{{Attached KML|display=inline}}
{{Postcode area imagemap|map=B postcode area|size=560x800px}}
[[File:B postcode area inset map.svg|thumb|none|560x560px|Detailed map of postcode districts in central Birmingham]]

==Former scheme==
[[Image:BirdbrookRoadSigns.jpg|thumb|right|Street name signs on Birdbrook Road, Great Barr, Birmingham, showing old "Birmingham 22" (top) and modern "B44" postcodes.]]
Before the introduction of postcodes in the 1960s, Birmingham along with other major cities were divided into numbered postal districts. With a few exceptions these were directly incorporated into the outcode (the first part of the postcode).

For example, [[Great Barr]] was formerly ''Birmingham 22'' (now B43 and 44) and [[Smethwick]] was formerly Smethwick 40 and 41 (now B66 and 67).

==See also==
*[[List of postcode areas in the United Kingdom]]
*[[Postcode Address File]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.poweredbypaf.com/ Royal Mail's Postcode Address File]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180926234202/https://www.poweredbypaf.com/how-the-royal-mail-postcode-address-file-paf-helps-organisations-verify-their-customers-identities/ A quick introduction to Royal Mail's Postcode Address File (PAF)]

{{Postcode areas in the United Kingdom}}

[[Category:Geography of Birmingham, West Midlands]]
[[Category:Postcode areas covering the West Midlands (region)]]

B postcode area - Revision history

imported>Aoeuidhtns: Undid revision 1297070777 by 2A04:4A43:578F:BEDE:F0E3:BF1F:2A33:11AC (talk) I don't know what was intended, but this edit created a second "Bordesley Green" in B9.