B20 postcode district
B20, in the B (Birmingham) postcode area, has 533 live and 222 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 229 roads under it.
| postcode area | B (Birmingham) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 533 |
| terminated postcodes | 222 |
| sectors | 3 |
| roads listed | 229 |
| companies registered | 2,117 |
| centroid | 52.51555, -1.91921 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
533 of the district's 755 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 52.51555, -1.91921, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| B20 1 | 129 | 50 |
| B20 2 | 197 | 81 |
| B20 3 | 207 | 91 |
Companies registered in B20
Companies House lists 2,117 companies with a registered office in B20; 185 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 B20
- Birmingham
- West Midlands
Roads filed under B20
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.
- Acfold Road
- Amherst Avenue
- Apollo Way
- Ashcombe Avenue
- Ashcroft Grove
- Ashleigh Drive
- Aspen Gardens
- Aston Lane
- Aston Manor Close
- Barnfield Grove
- Bayswater Road
- Beachburn Way
- Beauchamp Avenue
- Beaudesert Road
- Beechglade
- Beechwood
- Bett Road
- Bewlys Avenue
- Birchfield Road
- Bowling Green Lane
- Brackley Avenue
- Bragg Road
- Bramley Drive
- Brecon Road
- Bridgelands Way
- Bromford Hill
- Brosil Avenue
- Broughton Road
- Browns Green
- Burton Wood Drive
- Butler's Road
- Butlers Close
- Butlers Courts Lane
- Calder Grove
- Calthorpe Gardens
- Calthorpe Road
- Camplin Crescent
- Canterbury Road
- Cassowary Road
- Celine Grove
- Chalcot Grove
- Chalfont Road
- Charles Road
- Cherry Orchard Road
- Chesterwood Gardens
- Church Avenue
- Church Green
- Church Hill Road
- Church Lane
- Church Vale
- College Drive
- College Grove
- Coombe Road
- Coopers Road
- Copper Beech Gardens
- Cornwall Road
- Craythorne Avenue
- Crompton Road
- Crown Green Close
- Davey Road
all 229 roads
- David Road
- Deerhurst Road
- Denewood Avenue
- Devon Close
- Devonshire Road
- Earlsbury Gardens
- Earlswood Court
- Ebley Road
- Eco Drive
- Elmbank Grove
- Elmwood Gardens
- Endwood Court Road
- Englestede Close
- Equiano Place
- Everest Road
- Friary Road
- Garden Grove
- Gibson Drive
- Gibson Road
- Golden Croft
- Graham Warren Way
- Greenridge Road
- Greenway
- Grestone Avenue
- Grosvenor Avenue
- Grosvenor Road
- Grove Gardens
- Grove Lane
- Hall Road
- Hamstead Hall Avenue
- Hamstead Hall Road
- Hamstead Hill
- Hamstead Road
- Handsworth Wood Road
- Haughton Road
- Havelock Road
- Hawthorn Park
- Hawthorn Park Drive
- Heathfield Avenue
- High Trees
- Hill Grove
- Hinstock Road
- Hiron Gardens
- Holly Gardens
- Holly Road
- Honeswode Close
- Howard Road
- Hudson Road
- Hutton Road
- Hylda Road
- Inchcape Avenue
- Inglenook Drive
- Inverclyde Road
- Ireton Road
- Jack Footer Close
- Jubilee Drive
- Kenilworth Road
- Kilbys Grove
- King Edwards Close
- King Edwards Gardens
- Kingsleigh Road
- Lansdowne Road
- Larchfield Close
- Lea Hall Green
- Lea Hill Road
- Leopold Avenue
- Leslie Road
- Limberlost Close
- Livingstone Road
- Lloyd Road
- Lofthouse Road
- London Road
- Ludmer Way
- Lyndon Close
- Maidstone Road
- Manway Close
- Manwoods Close
- Maxwell Avenue
- May Tree Grove
- Medcroft Avenue
- Melrose Road
- Millfield Road
- Mitton Road
- Normandy Road
- North Drive
- North Road
- Nursery Drive
- Oaklands Drive
- Old Mill Grove
- Packwood Close
- Park Hill Drive
- Parklands Avenue
- Parkside Road
- Paul Byrne Court
- Pavilion Close
- Penhurst Avenue
- Philip Victor Road
- Pike Close
- Poplar Avenue
- Priestley Close
- Putney Avenue
- Putney Road
- Radnor Road
- Railway Road
- Richmond Close
- Robert Road
- Romilly Avenue
- Romulus Close
- Rosedene Drive
- Sedgley Grove
- Selborne Road
- Shireland Close
- Slack Lane
- Somerset Road
- Stamford Grove
- Stamford Road
- Stanier Grove
- St Annes Close
- St Christophers
- St Davids Grove
- Stoneleigh Road
- St Peter's Road
- Sunningdale Close
- Tame Grove
- Taverner's Green
- Tewkesbury Road
- The Broadway
- The Coppice
- The Croftway
- The Drive
- The Grange
- The Slieve
- The Spinney
- Thornbury Road
- Tintern Road
- Tollgate Drive
- Trinity Way
- Turville Road
- Tyber Drive
- Underwood Road
- Upper Grosvenor Road
- Vernon Avenue
- Victoriana Way
- Washington Drive
- Wedgewood Drive
- Weeford Drive
- Welford Road
- Wellesbourne Road
- Wellington Crescent
- Wellington Road
- Wenlock Road
- West Avenue
- West Drive
- Westerings
- Westminster Crescent
- Westminster Road
- Westover Road
- Wheaton Vale
- Willmore Road
- Wilton Road
- Winchester Road
- Winleigh Road
- Winston Drive
- Wood Court
- Woodcroft Avenue
- Woodend
- Wood Lane
- Worlds End Road
- Wye Cliff Road
Check an address in B20
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=B20" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about B20
- What does a B20 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the B20 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 533 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 B20
- B211.8 km
- B422.1 km
- B192.2 km
- B62.5 km
- B182.7 km
- B23.4 km
- B33.7 km
- B433.7 km
- B43.8 km
- B74.0 km
- B664.0 km
- B14.0 km
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