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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 areaB (Birmingham)
live postcodes211
terminated postcodes26
sectors1
roads listed87
companies registered504
centroid52.25146, -1.96036
directory release2026-08

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 621126

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

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

distance between the districts' centroids

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