B27 postcode district
B27, in the B (Birmingham) postcode area, has 432 live and 112 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 199 roads under it.
| postcode area | B (Birmingham) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 432 |
| terminated postcodes | 112 |
| sectors | 2 |
| roads listed | 199 |
| companies registered | 1,846 |
| centroid | 52.44452, -1.82277 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
432 of the district's 544 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 52.44452, -1.82277, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| B27 6 | 189 | 64 |
| B27 7 | 243 | 48 |
Companies registered in B27
Companies House lists 1,846 companies with a registered office in B27; 471 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 B27
- West Midlands
- Birmingham
- Solihull
Roads filed under B27
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.
- Acorn Close
- Alexander Road
- Anson Grove
- Anstey Grove
- Arden Road
- Ash Mews
- Aspen Close
- Augusta Road
- Austin Close
- Avery Drive
- Beeches Avenue
- Bericote Croft
- Besant Grove
- Blossomville Way
- Botteville Gardens
- Botteville Road
- Bounds Grove
- Bowing Green Mews
- Boyd Grove
- Bramley Mews Court
- Bramley Road
- Bretton Road
- Bricksmith Close
- Bridge Walk
- Broad Road
- Brook Lane
- Broom Hall Crescent
- Broom Hall Grove
- Cambridge Way
- Canal Court
- Cedars Avenue
- Central Grove
- Chaucer Grove
- Cherry Tree Croft
- Chestnut Close
- Chisholm Grove
- Circular Road
- Claverdon Gardens
- Collycroft Place
- Colwall Walk
- Conyworth Close
- Coppice Drive
- Cottesbrook Road
- Cowley Drive
- Culham Close
- Cypress Square
- Dagnall Road
- Dalston Road
- Denham Road
- Dogge Lane Croft
- Dolphin Lane
- Dorsington Road
- Douglas Road
- Dryden Grove
- Dudley Park Road
- Eastcote Road
- Easton Grove
- Eaves Green Gardens
- Elland Grove
- Elmdon Road
all 199 roads
- Elton Grove
- Fanshawe Road
- Fenton Road
- Fenton Way
- Ferris Grove
- Flint Green Road
- Flintham Close
- Florence Road
- Foxglove Close
- Fox Green Crescent
- Fox Grove
- Fox Hollies Road
- Francis Road
- Gayle Grove
- Gospel Farm Road
- Gospel Lane
- Grattidge Road
- Grayland Close
- Green Acres
- Greenwood Avenue
- Greswolde Park Road
- Grimshaw Road
- Grove Avenue
- Hanbury Croft
- Harrier Road
- Hartfield Crescent
- Hartshill Road
- Haven Drive
- Hazel Gardens
- Hazeltree Croft
- Hazelwood Gardens
- Hazelwood Road
- Henbury Road
- Hillborough Road
- Hindon Grove
- Holly Drive
- Hollyhock Road
- Honeysuckle Grove
- Hove Road
- Hyron Hall Road
- Ingram Grove
- Isley Drive
- Juniper Close
- Keats Grove
- Kilmorie Road
- Ladbroke Grove
- Langley Hall Road
- Langworth Avenue
- Laurel Gardens
- Leysdown Grove
- Leysdown Road
- Liddon Grove
- Liddon Road
- Lime Tree Road
- Lincoln Close
- Lincoln Road
- Lincoln Road North
- Lyall Grove
- Lytton Grove
- Malfield Drive
- Mallard Close
- Malvern Road
- Marie Drive
- Merstowe Close
- Morris Close
- Nailstone Crescent
- Navigators Road
- Netherfield Gardens
- Ninefield Gardens
- Ninfield Road
- Norland Road
- Northanger Road
- Oakhill Crescent
- Oakhurst Road
- Olton Boulevard East
- Olton Croft
- Orchard Way
- Ormsby Grove
- Osprey Road
- Overlea Avenue
- Overton Grove
- Overton Road
- Oxford Drive
- Oxford Road
- Pearl Grove
- Pemberly Road
- Pendleton Grove
- Pollard Road
- Pool Farm Road
- Redwood Gardens
- Roberts Road
- Rookwood Road
- Rover Drive
- Roydon Road
- Ruskin Grove
- Ryde Grove
- Rye Croft
- Severne Grove
- Severne Road
- Shawley Croft
- Sherbourne Drive
- Sherbourne Road
- Shirley Road
- Snowberry Gardens
- Sorrel Drive
- Starcross Road
- Station Road
- St Marys Close
- Stockfield Road
- Summer Road
- Sunleigh Grove
- Swanswell Road
- Sycamore Way
- Tanyards
- Tavistock Road
- The Avenue
- The Link
- The Vineries
- The Willows
- Thornfield Road
- Tibland Road
- Tustin Grove
- Vicarage Grove
- Victoria Road
- Vine Lane
- Weates Yard
- Westfield Road
- Westley Road
- Wetherby Road
- Wilcote Grove
- Wildfell Road
- Woburn Grove
- Wolseley Avenue
- Woodberry Walk
- Woodcock Lane
- Woodcock Lane North
- Wynford Road
- Yardley Road
- B4514
Check an address in B27
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=B27" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about B27
- What does a B27 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the B27 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 432 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 B27
- B252.3 km
- B282.3 km
- B112.7 km
- B263.0 km
- B103.4 km
- B923.5 km
- B133.9 km
- B94.2 km
- B914.3 km
- B124.6 km
- B334.6 km
- B905.1 km
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