B18 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

460 of the district's 963 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 52.49117, -1.92552, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in B18

Companies House lists 3,105 companies with a registered office in B18; 806 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for B18

• West Midlands
• Birmingham
• Sandwell
• Smethwick

Roads filed under B18

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Abbey Street
• Abbey Street North
• Abbots Way
• Aberdeen Street
• Allens Avenue
• Allens Road
• All Saints' Road
• All Saints' Street
• Anchor Crescent
• Ansbro Close
• Augusta Street
• Augustine Grove
• Bacchus Road
• Beaumont Gardens
• Beeton Road
• Bellefield Road
• Benson Road
• Berry Drive
• Berry Street
• Blackford Street
• Boar Hound Close
• Bond Square
• Branston Street
• Bredon Croft
• Brookfield Road
• Brookfield Terrace
• Bryant Street
• Canning Gardens
• Cape Street
• Capstone Avenue
• Carlisle Street
• Central Park Drive
• Chamberlain Court
• Chandlers Close
• Chiswell Road
• Claremont Road
• Clinton Street
• Clissold Street
• Cobble Walk
• College Street
• Cope Street
• Coveley Grove
• Crabtree Road
• Cuthbert Road
• Devonshire Avenue
• Devonshire Street
• Dover Street
• Dudley Road
• Dugdale Street
• Ellen Street
• Eva Road
• Eyre Street
• Factory Road
• Ford Street
• Foster Gardens
• Foundry Road
• Franklin Street
• Fulmer Walk
• George Street West
• Gertrude Place

Check an address in B18

Check an address in B18

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=B18" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about B18

What does a B18 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the B18 district of the B (Birmingham) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Birmingham. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 460 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest B18

• B191.5 km
• B161.6 km
• B11.7 km
• B31.7 km
• B22.0 km
• B212.1 km
• B42.3 km
• B662.7 km
• B202.7 km
• B152.8 km
• B63.1 km
• B53.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids