B7 postcode district
B7, in the B (Birmingham) postcode area, has 272 live and 169 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 129 roads under it.
| postcode area | B (Birmingham) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 272 |
| terminated postcodes | 169 |
| sectors | 2 |
| roads listed | 129 |
| companies registered | 1,453 |
| centroid | 52.49411, -1.87239 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
272 of the district's 441 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 52.49411, -1.87239, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| B7 4 | 131 | 107 |
| B7 5 | 141 | 62 |
Companies registered in B7
Companies House lists 1,453 companies with a registered office in B7; 385 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 B7
- Birmingham
- West Midlands
Roads filed under B7
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.
- Adams Street
- Addison Road
- Alderflat Place
- Alma Crescent
- Argyle Street
- Ashted Lock
- Ashted Walk
- Aston Church Road
- Avenue Close
- Avenue Road
- Barrack Street
- Bentons Mill Croft
- Bloomsbury Street
- Bloomsbury Walk
- Bodmin Grove
- Bradburne Way
- Brockley Place
- Brough Close
- Bullock Street
- Butlin Street
- Cato Street
- Cato Street North
- Cattells Grove
- Chadsmoor Terrace
- Charles Drive
- Chattaway Street
- Cheatham Street
- Cheston Road
- Churchfield Close
- Cook Street
- Cranemoor Close
- Crompton Close
- Crompton Road
- Cromwell Street
- Cuckoo Road
- Dartmouth Middleway
- Denby Close
- Devon Street
- Dollman Street
- Duddeston Manor Road
- Duddeston Mill Road
- Eliot Street
- Erskine Street
- Felsted Way
- Finstall Close
- Forster Street
- Fowler Street
- Francis Street
- Freeman Road
- Glovers Field Drive
- Great Brook Street
- Great Francis Street
- Great Lister Street
- Heartlands Parkway
- Heneage Street
- Heneage Street West
- High Park Street
- Hilden Road
- Hindlow Close
- Hobart Croft
all 129 roads
- Holborn Hill
- Holt Street
- Howford Grove
- Hyssop Close
- Inkerman Street
- Johnson Street
- Kellett Road
- Kelsey Close
- Kingswood Croft
- Lawford Close
- Lawley Middleway
- Lingard Close
- Lister Street
- Little Clover Close
- Little Francis Grove
- Little Hall Road
- Long Acre
- Lord Street
- Love Lane
- Mainstream Way
- Malvern Hill Road
- Marton Close
- Melvina Road
- Meteor Way
- Mount Street
- Mounts Way
- Nechells Park Road
- Nechells Parkway
- Nechells Place
- Needham Street
- Newbold Croft
- Newhaven Close
- Northumberland Street
- Old Stables Walk
- Oliver Street
- Park Place
- Premier Street
- Proctor Street
- Railway Terrace
- Ramsey Road
- Revesby Walk
- Richard Street
- Robertsons Gardens
- Rocky Lane
- Rupert Street
- Saltley Road
- Showells Gardens
- Stanley Road
- St Clements Road
- St James' Place
- Stuart Street
- Thornberry Walk
- Trevor Street
- Trevor Street West
- Vauxhall Grove
- Vauxhall Road
- Verbena Gardens
- Walter Street
- Wardlow Road
- Watson Road
- Watson Road East
- Wharton Street
- William Henry Street
- Windsor Street
- Windsor Street South
- Woodcock Street
- A47
- B4132
- B4133
Check an address in B7
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=B7" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about B7
- What does a B7 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the B7 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 272 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 B7
- B61.5 km
- B41.7 km
- B21.8 km
- B82.1 km
- B192.3 km
- B92.3 km
- B32.4 km
- B13.0 km
- B103.0 km
- B53.3 km
- B183.6 km
- B123.8 km
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