B73 postcode district
B73, in the B (Birmingham) postcode area, has 540 live and 483 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 200 roads under it.
| postcode area | B (Birmingham) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 540 |
| terminated postcodes | 483 |
| sectors | 3 |
| roads listed | 200 |
| companies registered | 2,206 |
| centroid | 52.55318, -1.84237 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
540 of the district's 1,023 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 52.55318, -1.84237, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| B73 5 | 246 | 92 |
| B73 6 | 237 | 70 |
| B73 9 | 57 | 321 |
Companies registered in B73
Companies House lists 2,206 companies with a registered office in B73; 854 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 B73
- Birmingham
- West Midlands
- Royal Sutton Coldfield
Roads filed under B73
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.
- Addenbrooke Drive
- Alcester Drive
- Amos Mews
- Antrobus Road
- Aragon Drive
- Arden Drive
- Ashdene Close
- Avery Road
- Banners Gate Road
- Bateman Drive
- Beacon Road
- Beeches Walk
- Beech Road
- Beresford Drive
- Bishops Road
- Blackham Drive
- Boldmere Close
- Boldmere Drive
- Boldmere Gardens
- Boldmere Road
- Braemar Road
- Britwell Road
- Browns Drive
- Buckingham Mews
- Buxton Road
- Cambridge Avenue
- Carnwath Road
- Catherine Drive
- Charlecote Gardens
- Cherry Lane
- Chester Gardens
- Chester Road
- Chester Road North
- Cheylesmore Close
- Churchill Road
- Church Road
- Clifton Drive
- Clifton Road
- Cofield Road
- College Hill
- College Road
- Coppice View Road
- Corbridge Road
- Dalkeith Road
- Darnick Road
- Denholm Road
- Digby Road
- Donovan Drive
- Driffold
- Dunchurch Crescent
- Durley Drive
- Eastern Road
- Elizabeth Road
- Elwyn Road
- Emmanuel Road
- Evelyn Croft
- Falstone Road
- Fawdry Close
- Fernwood Close
- Fernwood Road
all 200 roads
- Firsholm Close
- Fir Tree Grove
- Florence Avenue
- Florence Drive
- Florence Road
- Frederick Road
- Garrard Gardens
- Gate Lane
- Gaydon Place
- George Road
- Glebe Drive
- Goldieslie Close
- Goldieslie Road
- Grace Church Way
- Green Lanes
- Greenway Drive
- Grendon Drive
- Halton Road
- Hampton Close
- Hart Drive
- Haselor Road
- Hazel Avenue
- Heathlands Crescent
- Heathlands Road
- Henley Close
- Highbridge Road
- Highfield Drive
- Hillhurst Road
- Hollyhurst Road
- Honiley Drive
- Hothersall Drive
- Ilmington Drive
- Ivy Road
- Jevons Road
- Jockey Road
- Kenelm Road
- Kineton Road
- King Edward's Square
- Kings Road
- Kingstanding Road
- Kirkby Green
- Knightsfield Close
- Knipersley Road
- Lakehouse Road
- Lapworth Drive
- Lennox Grove
- Lime Grove
- Lindenwood
- Little Green Lanes
- Longmoor Road
- Longmore Close
- Lowe Drive
- Lower Reddicroft
- Lyndon Road
- Manor Drive
- Manor Hill
- Manor Road
- Manor Walk
- Margaret Road
- Markham Road
- Marston Road
- Matfen Avenue
- Maxstoke Close
- Maxstoke Road
- Mayfield Road
- Melrose Avenue
- Milcote Drive
- Monmouth Drive
- Moorfield Drive
- Morningside
- Morven Road
- Murray Court
- Nadin Road
- New Church Road
- Oakwood Road
- Orchard Close
- Parkeston Crescent
- Park Road
- Park View
- Parkwood Drive
- Penny Black Lane
- Plants Close
- Princess Alice Drive
- Railway Road
- Reay Nadin Drive
- Redacre Road
- Reddicroft
- Richmond Road
- Rough Road
- Roxburgh Road
- Roylesden Crescent
- Rushbrooke Drive
- Ryton Close
- Sarah Glover Close
- Sheffield Road
- Silvermead Road
- Somerville Road
- Sommerville Drive
- Southam Drive
- Station Approach
- Station Road
- Station Street
- Stirling Road
- St Michael's Road
- Stonehouse Road
- Sunningdale Close
- Sunnybank Road
- Sutton Oak Road
- The Boulevard
- The Greenway
- Thomas De Beauchamp Lane
- Tudor Close
- Tudor Hill
- Tudor Road
- Union Drive
- Upper Clifton Road
- Vesey Road
- Wakefield Close
- Walter Cobb Drive
- Warden Avenue
- Warden Road
- Warmington Drive
- Warwick Road
- Wedmore Road
- Welford Road
- Welshmans Hill
- Western Road
- Westwood Road
- Wilkinson Close
- Windsor Road
- Woodchurch Grange
- Woodland Rise
- Wrekin Road
- Wyndley Drive
- Wyndley Lane
- Yewtree Road
- A452
- A453
- B4142
- B4149
Check an address in B73
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=B73" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about B73
- What does a B73 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the B73 district of the B (Birmingham) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Royal Sutton Coldfield. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 540 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 B73
- B721.4 km
- B232.9 km
- B443.0 km
- B753.6 km
- B743.7 km
- B243.9 km
- B764.2 km
- B425.2 km
- B355.3 km
- B436.0 km
- B66.1 km
- B206.7 km
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