B5 postcode district
B5, in the B (Birmingham) postcode area, has 429 live and 493 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 145 roads under it.
| postcode area | B (Birmingham) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 429 |
| terminated postcodes | 493 |
| sectors | 4 |
| roads listed | 145 |
| companies registered | 3,007 |
| centroid | 52.46888, -1.89765 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
429 of the district's 922 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 52.46888, -1.89765, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| B5 4 | 71 | 149 |
| B5 5 | 62 | 118 |
| B5 6 | 85 | 114 |
| B5 7 | 211 | 112 |
Companies registered in B5
Companies House lists 3,007 companies with a registered office in B5; 988 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 B5
- Birmingham
- West Midlands
Roads filed under B5
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.
- Aboyne Close
- Alexandra Road
- Allison Street
- Andover Street
- Banbury Street
- Barford Street
- Barn Street
- Barrow Walk
- Barsham Close
- Bartholomew Row
- Bath Passage
- Beaufort Road
- Belgrave Middleway
- Belgravia Close
- Bellevue
- Benacre Drive
- Benmore Avenue
- Berrington Walk
- Bishop Street
- Bissell Street
- Bordesley Street
- Bristol Road
- Bromsgrove Street
- Capsicum Road
- Caraway Road
- Cinnamon Close
- Claybrook Street
- Clevedon Road
- Cley Close
- Clissold Close
- Clover Walk
- Columbia Close
- Constance Road
- Courtlands Close
- Coventry Street
- Cumberland Avenue
- Dalloway Close
- Dean Street
- Digbeth
- Dollery Drive
- Dudley Street
- East Drive
- Edgbaston Crescent
- Edgbaston Street
- Essex Street
- Etna Street
- Fazeley Street
- Fitters Mill Close
- Floodgate Street
- Foster Way
- Four Stones Grove
- Fox Street
- Foxtail Walk
- Gloucester Street
- Gooch Street
- Gooch Street North
- Grosvenor Street
- Hawkins Close
- Hay Park
- Henstead Street
all 145 roads
- Hill Street
- Hinckley Street
- Hodnet Grove
- Hollies Croft
- Hope Street
- Hurst Street
- Inge Street
- Jacoby Place
- Kemble Croft
- Kent Street
- Ladywell Walk
- Lawford Grove
- Lenchs Green
- Little Ann Street
- Lower Essex Street
- Macdonald Street
- Masshouse Lane
- Meriden Street
- Milk Street
- Mill Lane
- Mill Pool Way
- Moat Lane
- Moore's Row
- Mowbray Street
- Murrell Close
- Navigation Street
- New Canal Street
- North Drive
- Odell Place
- Oxford Street
- Park Street
- Pavenham Drive
- Pebble Mill Road
- Pershore Street
- Pickford Street
- Princess Road
- Priory Road
- Raglan Road
- Rathbone Close
- Rea Drive
- Rea Street
- Rea Street South
- Rea Terrace
- Regent Close
- Riseley Crescent
- River Street
- Rolling Mill Close
- Rowton Lane
- Shaw's Passage
- Sherlock Street
- Shooters Close
- Skinner Lane
- Smallbrook Queensway
- Southacre Avenue
- South Drive
- Speedwell Road
- Spey Close
- Spooner Croft
- St John's Walk
- St Jude's Passage
- St Lawrence Close
- St Luke's Road
- Stratford House Road
- Sugden Grove
- The Ashes
- Theatre Approach
- The Boulevard
- Thorp Street
- Trent Street
- Tylney Close
- Upper Dean Street
- Upper Mill Lane
- Varden Croft
- Vaughton Street South
- Vere Street
- Vernolds Croft
- Viceroy Close
- Well Lane
- West Drive
- Wrentham Street
- Wrottesley Street
- Wyatt Close
- A38
- A4029
- A4540
Check an address in B5
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=B5" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about B5
- What does a B5 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the B5 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 429 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 B5
- B121.3 km
- B11.4 km
- B31.7 km
- B151.8 km
- B41.9 km
- B22.1 km
- B162.7 km
- B103.1 km
- B113.1 km
- B183.1 km
- B193.2 km
- B73.3 km
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