Emery Close Birmingham

25 addresses across 2 postcodes (B23), about 130 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2704864.

  • Sales: 16 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £211,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 15 homes have an energy certificate (D: 13, E: 1, G: 1).
  • Flood: 14 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Gravelly Hill, about 660 m (0.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Salford Park, is about 310 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 21.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 96 to 104 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 25 of its 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Church Road Surgery, about 1.4 km (0.8 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 27% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 186 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.

Sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20231£211,000£211,000£211,000
20222£225,000£220,000£230,000
20201£175,000£175,000£175,000
20191£172,000£172,000£172,000
20151£136,000£136,000£136,000
20142£113,000£106,000£120,000
20051£124,000£124,000£124,000
20022£73,250£57,500£89,000
19981£52,750£52,750£52,750
19961£48,000£48,000£48,000
Most recent sales (16)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
22 May 202411 B23 7PQTerraced£217,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
15 Jun 202321 B23 7PQSemi-detached£211,000
22 Mar 202321 B23 7PQSemi-detached£179,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Nov 202218 B23 7PQSemi-detached£230,000
27 Jan 20229 B23 7PQSemi-detached£220,000
27 May 202012 B23 7PQSemi-detached£175,000
4 Apr 20197 B23 7PQSemi-detached£172,000
8 Jun 20158 B23 7PQSemi-detached£136,000
10 Oct 201416 B23 7PQSemi-detached£120,000
13 Jan 201416 B23 7PQSemi-detached£106,000
6 Nov 201316 B23 7PQSemi-detached£73,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Feb 200527 B23 7PQSemi-detached£124,000Leasehold.
19 Jul 200217 B23 7PQSemi-detached£89,000
21 May 200227 B23 7PQSemi-detached£57,500
21 Jan 19985 B23 7PQSemi-detached£52,750
9 Feb 199621 B23 7PQSemi-detached£48,000

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from September 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

15 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (15). Built: 1930-1949 (14); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (10 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Birmingham in 2026-27: Band D £2,363 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,575£1,838£2,100£2,363£2,888£3,413£3,938£4,726

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band A (54% of about 740 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): CITY WIDE HMO.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 12 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 11 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
B23 7PQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 6 unlikely
B23 7PGnot in 2 or 3 12 / 2 / 5 unlikely

Sources: Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Height above sea level

The street's 25 addresses are between 96 m and 104 m above sea level (101 m on average); the ground rises about 8 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
B23 7PG100%100%100%0%
B23 7PQ100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsGravelly Hill 390,000 journeys in 2024–25660 m (0.4 miles)
Aston 613,000 journeys in 2024–251.1 km (0.7 miles)
Witton (West Midlands) 342,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 27 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Salford Circus Salford Bridge70 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth4.4 km (2.8 miles)
Car parksMachin Road Car Park1.9 km (1.2 miles)
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest E.ON Drive Public Charging Station150 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX9.9 km (6.2 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Church Road Surgery1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Pharmacies6 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Vantage Chemist1.4 km (0.8 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Smiles 4 U420 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalNorthcroft Hospital1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationWest Midlands Police1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest MFG - Expressway, Aston Cashzone640 m (0.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Salford Park 9.6 ha310 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Brookvale Park 25 ha590 m (0.4 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 390 m²610 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Salford Stadium 2.6 ha290 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Hunton Hill Allotments 7,080 m²650 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 35 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Aston Hall, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.8 km (1.1 miles) west. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Aston HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.8 km (1.1 miles) west
Witton CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Brookvale ParkLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Witton LakesLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.3 miles) north
Perry ReservoirLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) north-west
Halfmoon PlantationWood4.1 km (2.6 miles) west
Eachelhurst SpinneyWood4.4 km (2.7 miles) north-east
The ShrubberyWood4.6 km (2.8 miles) north-east

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)21.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.8205
Particles (PM10)15.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; all three are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
70 to 7402
65 to 6915
60 to 64114
55 to 59135
Under 5509

25 of the street's 25 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 16 from railways, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Birmingham: see them on the Birmingham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 3 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Slade Primary SchoolPrimary3–11300 m No published inspection
E-ACT Nechells AcademyPrimary3–11830 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
SS Mary & John Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Deykin Avenue Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Inadequate (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Erdington Hall Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Brookvale Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
St Clement's Church of England AcademyPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Stockland Green SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Featherstone Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.4 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Manor Park Primary AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Erdington AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Yew Tree Community Junior and Infant School (NC)Primary3–111.5 km (1 mile) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Spring Hill High School B23 7PGSchool/college/university80 m5 Very good28 Aug 2020
Liberty House Residential Home B23 7PHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises120 m5 Very good14 Mar 2019
Highcroft Sports & Social Club Ltd B23 7PWPub/bar/nightclub160 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Jun 2009
Care Tech B23 7PNHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises220 m4 Good30 Sep 2010
Malabar Foods B23 7PXRetailers - other350 m2 Improvement necessary23 Mar 2026
Burger & wok B24 8LAOther catering premises360 m5 Very good19 Aug 2026
Koko B24 8LARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen360 m4 Good14 May 2026
Kalia Wines B23 7QURetailers - other370 m4 Good2 Oct 2025
Dove Cafe B23 7PFOther catering premises400 m (0.2 miles)Awaiting inspection
Little Folks Nursery B23 7PFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good8 Jul 2024
Unity Care B23 7PFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good4 Mar 2011
Wood Haven Care Ltd B23 7PFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Jan 2024
Spaghetti Food Pantry B23 7QBOther catering premises420 m (0.3 miles)3 Generally satisfactory10 Mar 2025
Crispy Chicken B23 7PXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Powerleague Fives Ltd B6 7TGOther catering premises450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good27 Jul 2020

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

186 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences70
Shoplifting27
Public order24
Criminal damage and arson11
Vehicle crime11
Robbery8
Other crime7
Possession of weapons7
Burglary7
Anti-social behaviour7
Drugs5
Other theft2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Petrol Station (103); On or near Hillside Road (50); On or near Emery Close (7); On or near Powick Road (7); On or near Copeley Hill (6).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 414 residents in 133 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3140
Children under 1526%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright33%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented12%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)14%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)13%32%
Travel to work by car or van64%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle5%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away2%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications26%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

Chartley Road · Powick Road · Copeley Hill · Copeley Gardens · Gresley Grove · Hillside Road · Kegworth Road · Tyburn Road · Gravelly Hill · Armada Close · Broomfield Road · The Mount

All the streets in B23 and across Birmingham.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.