B9 postcode district
B9, in the B (Birmingham) postcode area, has 394 live and 416 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 163 roads under it.
| postcode area | B (Birmingham) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 394 |
| terminated postcodes | 416 |
| sectors | 3 |
| roads listed | 163 |
| companies registered | 2,336 |
| centroid | 52.47823, -1.85086 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
394 of the district's 810 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 52.47823, -1.85086, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| B9 4 | 131 | 113 |
| B9 5 | 252 | 78 |
| B9 9 | 11 | 225 |
Companies registered in B9
Companies House lists 2,336 companies with a registered office in B9; 254 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 B9
- Birmingham
- West Midlands
Roads filed under B9
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.
- Adderley Street
- Allcock Street
- Alport Croft
- Alston Grove
- Alston Road
- Alum Drive
- Alveston Grove
- Arsenal Street
- Artillery Street
- Aspen Grove
- Azalea Grove
- Bangor Road
- Barwell Road
- Bedworth Grove
- Belchers Lane
- Bell Close
- Blackberry Avenue
- Blakeland Street
- Blake Lane
- Blake Place
- Bolton Street
- Bordesley Close
- Bordesley Green
- Bordesley Green Road
- Botha Road
- Brailes Grove
- Bramble Dell
- Broadway Avenue
- Bromley Street
- Bromwich Walk
- Broseley Brook Close
- Burbidge Road
- Byfield Passage
- Caldecote Grove
- Caldwell Road
- Camp Street
- Carlton Road
- Cattell Road
- Cherry Drive
- Cherrywood Road
- Churchill Road
- Cobham Road
- Colonial Road
- Corbyn Road
- Crown Road
- Daniels Road
- Dart Street
- Dassett Grove
- Delphinium Close
- Denbigh Street
- Denville Crescent
- Derby Street
- Doris Road
- Drummond Road
- Eastfield Road
- East Holme
- Emmeline Street
- Eversley Road
- Farmacre
- Fifth Avenue
all 163 roads
- Finnemore Road
- First Avenue
- Fordrough Avenue
- Fordrough Lane
- Fourth Avenue
- Foxwell Grove
- Foxwell Road
- Frankton Grove
- Garland Street
- Garrison Lane
- Garrison Street
- Geranium Grove
- Gibb Street
- Glover Street
- Gray Street
- Great Barr Street
- Green Croft
- Green Lane
- Greenway Street
- Grove Cottage Road
- Hack Street
- Hafton Grove
- Hawthorn Close
- Heath Mill Lane
- Hoff Beck Court
- Howell Close
- Humpage Road
- Imperial Road
- Isbourne Way
- Keeley Street
- Keer Court
- Kenwood Road
- Kingston Road
- Langdon Street
- Little Barr Street
- Little Bromwich Road
- Little Edward Street
- Little Green Lane
- Liverpool Street
- Lower Dartmouth Street
- Lower Trinity Street
- Lupin Grove
- Marchmont Road
- Maxstoke Street
- Maybank
- Mead Crescent
- Mease Croft
- Midland Street
- Mill Burn Way
- Millward Street
- Montague Street
- Nesbit Grove
- Newbank Grove
- New Bond Street
- Newbridge Road
- Newland Road
- North Holme
- North Warwick Street
- Norton Crescent
- Norwood Road
- Otley Grove
- Palace Road
- Palmer Street
- Pikewater Road
- Porters Way
- Pretoria Road
- Prince Albert Street
- Priorygate Way
- Quigley Avenue
- Redvers Road
- Regency Close
- Repton Grove
- Repton Road
- Ronald Place
- Ronald Road
- Sarah Street
- Second Avenue
- Sir Denis Drive
- South Holme
- Springbank
- St Andrew's Road
- St Andrew's Street
- Storrs Close
- Sydney Road
- Talfourd Street
- Templefield Gardens
- Templefield Street
- Third Avenue
- Tilton Road
- Towpath Close
- Victoria Street
- Waterside Close
- Watery Lane Middleway
- West Holme
- Westley Street
- Whichford Grove
- Whitacre Road
- Whitehall Road
- Witton Street
- Wolseley Street
- Wyndcliff Road
- Yardley Green Road
- B4128
Check an address in B9
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=B9" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about B9
- What does a B9 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the B9 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 394 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 B9
- B101.0 km
- B81.6 km
- B72.3 km
- B252.4 km
- B112.7 km
- B42.9 km
- B123.0 km
- B23.3 km
- B53.3 km
- B33.6 km
- B63.8 km
- B14.0 km
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