Crap Towns / Birmingham / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Birmingham?
In January 2026, 1.8% of premises in Birmingham couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 3.6 times the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 1,841 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 95.3% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 1,841 | 0.4% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 8,580 | 1.8% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 462,136 | 95.3% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | – | 1.8 |
| Streetly | 11.3 km | 0.6 |
| Royal Sutton Coldfield | 10.1 km | 0.6 |
| Solihull | 8.8 km | 0.6 |
| Coleshill | 11.6 km | 0.4 |
| Smethwick | 7.6 km | 0.4 |
| West Bromwich | 10.3 km | 0.1 |
| Oldbury | 10.6 km | 0.1 |
| Hollywood | 10.2 km | less than 0.1 |
| Blackheath | 12.2 km | 0.0 |
| Pheasey | 9.3 km | 0.0 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |