B2 postcode district
B2, in the B (Birmingham) postcode area, has 289 live and 571 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 31 roads under it.
| postcode area | B (Birmingham) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 289 |
| terminated postcodes | 571 |
| sectors | 3 |
| roads listed | 31 |
| companies registered | 1,677 |
| centroid | 52.48787, -1.89715 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
289 of the district's 860 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 52.48787, -1.89715, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| B2 2 | 191 | 208 |
| B2 4 | 66 | 184 |
| B2 5 | 32 | 179 |
Companies registered in B2
Companies House lists 1,677 companies with a registered office in B2; 701 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 B2
- Birmingham
- West Midlands
Roads filed under B2
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.
- Bennett's Hill
- Burlington Arcade
- Cannon Street
- Cherry Street
- City Arcade
- Ethel Street
- Fire Office Passage
- Fore Street
- Lower Temple Street
- Martineau Way
- Needless Alley
- New Cannon Passage
- New Street
- North Western Arcade
- Piccadilly Arcade
- Pinfold Street
- Queens Drive
- Station Street
- Stephenson Place
- Stephenson Street
- St Martin's Queensway
- Temple Passage
- Temple Row
- Temple Row West
- Temple Street
- Union Passage
- Union Street
- Warwick Passage
- Waterloo Street
- Wellington Passage
- Worcester Street
Check an address in B2
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=B2" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about B2
- What does a B2 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the B2 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 289 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 B2
- B40.4 km
- B30.6 km
- B191.2 km
- B11.2 km
- B71.8 km
- B182.0 km
- B62.1 km
- B52.1 km
- B162.8 km
- B153.0 km
- B123.1 km
- B93.3 km
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