B96 postcode district
B96, in the B (Birmingham) postcode area, has 211 live and 26 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 87 roads under it.
| postcode area | B (Birmingham) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 211 |
| terminated postcodes | 26 |
| sectors | 1 |
| roads listed | 87 |
| companies registered | 504 |
| centroid | 52.25146, -1.96036 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
211 of the district's 237 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 52.25146, -1.96036, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| B96 6 | 211 | 26 |
Companies registered in B96
Companies House lists 504 companies with a registered office in B96; 75 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 B96
- West Midlands
- Worcestershire
- Redditch
- Astwood Bank
- Wychavon
- Feckenham
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Warwickshire
- Sambourne
- New End
- Bradley Green
- Stock Green
- Holberrow Green
- Edgiock
- Littleworth
- Shurnock
- Stock Wood
- Noah's Green
- Morton under Hill
Roads filed under B96
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.
- Alcester Heath
- Alcester Road
- Astwood Lane
- Avenue Road
- Badger Brook Lane
- Berrowhill Lane
- Beverley Close
- Blaze Lane
- Bouts Lane
- Brandheath Lane
- Burial Lane
- Butler Street
- Castle Street
- Chapel Road
- Chapel Street
- Chestnut Road
- Church Road
- Cockshot Lane
- Coupass Cottages
- Crofts Lane
- Cyprus Avenue
- Dark Lane
- Dewsbury Close
- Dogbut Lane
- Droitwich Road
- Earls Common Road
- Eastern Hill
- Edgioake Lane
- Evesham Road
- Feckenham Gardens
- Feckenham Road
- Fishing Line Road
- Foregate Street
- Gateacre Drive
- Gorsey Close
- Green Lane
- High Street
- Hillmeadow View
- Hollowfields Road
- Hoopers Lane
- Jill Lane
- Joseph Perkins Close
- Littleworth Lane
- Manders Close
- Manor House Lane
- Middle Road
- Middletown Lane
- Mile Post Lane
- Mill Lane
- Moors Lane
- Morton Hall Lane
- New Road
- Oak Tree Lane
- Oakwood Park
- Orchard Grove
- Overdale
- Perrymill Lane
- Popes Lane
- Popes Meadow
- Poplars Lane
all 87 roads
- Post Office Walk
- Poverty
- Priest Meadow Close
- Puddlestone Close
- Queen Street
- Retreat Street
- Ridgeway Meadows
- Rockhill Lane
- Rowborough Close
- Salt Way
- Sambourne Lane
- Sambourne Park
- Stockwood Lane
- Swansbrook Lane
- The Orchards
- The Ridgeway
- The Square
- Tookeys Drive
- Turton Gardens
- Western Hill Close
- Whitemoor Lane
- Wike Lane
- Wood Lane
- Yeates Acre
- Yeomans Close
- B4090
- B4092
Check an address in B96
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=B96" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about B96
- What does a B96 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the B96 district of the B (Birmingham) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Astwood Bank. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 211 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 B96
- B805.2 km
- B975.4 km
- B986.5 km
- B497.3 km
- WR78.6 km
- B6010.3 km
- B4811.5 km
- B5011.7 km
- B9512.8 km
- B6112.9 km
- WR913.6 km
- B4515.6 km
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