In which city is Peaky Blinders set?

Peaky Blinders is set in Birmingham, England. The story focuses especially on Small Heath, a working-class area where the fictional Shelby family builds its criminal and political power after the First World War.

Birmingham gives the series its industrial atmosphere: factories, canals, railway yards, betting shops, crowded streets, and sharp divisions between wealthy authorities and working-class communities. The show begins in 1919, when Tommy Shelby returns from the war and leads the Peaky Blinders gang into increasingly ambitious conflicts involving local criminals, the police, politicians, and rival organisations.

The programme was filmed in several locations across England, including parts of Yorkshire, Liverpool, and the Black Country. That production geography can lead viewers to mistake the filming locations for the story’s setting. Birmingham remains the fictional world’s centre, even when scenes were shot elsewhere. The real Peaky Blinders gang also had historical connections to Birmingham, although the television characters and their larger criminal empire are largely fictional.