Gibson Drive Birmingham

10 addresses across 2 postcodes (B20), about 60 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2701670.

  • Sales: 12 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £185,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 5 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2, D: 2, E: 1).
  • Flood: 7 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 92% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Perry Barr, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Handsworth Park, is about 260 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 113 to 115 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 10 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hamstead Road Surgery, about 350 m away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 700 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 44% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 87 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
20251£185,000£185,000£185,000
20241£190,000£190,000£190,000
20191£137,000£137,000£137,000
20172£139,000£139,000£139,000
20161£110,000£110,000£110,000
20061£110,000£110,000£110,000
20041£100,000£100,000£100,000
20032£107,500£100,000£115,000
20001£43,000£43,000£43,000
Most recent sales (12)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
4 Apr 202532 B20 3UBSemi-detached£185,000Leasehold.
28 Aug 202430 B20 3UBSemi-detached£190,000
22 Mar 201928 B20 3UBTerraced£137,000
13 Nov 201736 B20 3UBSemi-detached£139,000Leasehold.
13 Nov 201736 B20 3UBTerraced£139,000
19 Feb 201630 B20 3UBSemi-detached£110,000
19 Feb 201630 B20 3UBSemi-detached£4,940Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Sep 200638 B20 3UBTerraced£110,000
13 Oct 200436 B20 3UBTerraced£100,000
23 Dec 200334 B20 3UBTerraced£115,000Leasehold.
22 Oct 200338 B20 3UBTerraced£100,000Leasehold.
13 Jan 200028 B20 3UBTerraced£43,000

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 April 2016 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

5 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 80 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (2); House, semi-detached (2); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (3); 1976-1982 (1); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (3 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (55% of about 1,480 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 8 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
B20 3UBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B20 3UEnot in 2 or 3 5 / 2 / 8 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 10 addresses are between 113 m and 115 m above sea level (114 m on average).

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
B20 3UB100%100%100%0%
B20 3UE100%92%92%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 stationsPerry Barr 185,000 journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Jewellery Quarter 446,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Witton (West Midlands) 342,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Underground, metro or tramSoho Benson Road (West Midlands Metro)1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Winson Green Outer Circle (West Midlands Metro)1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Jewellery Quarter (West Midlands Metro)2 km (1.2 miles)
Bus stops8 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Victoriana Way Lozells200 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth4 km (2.5 miles)
Car parksBaker Street Car Park1.2 km (0.8 miles)
EV charging points9 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity580 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX12.9 km (8 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 surgeries11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hamstead Road Surgery350 m
Pharmacies23 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Healthstop Pharmacy350 m
NHS dentists13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Heathfield Road Dental Practice640 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBirmingham Children's Hospital2 km (1.2 miles)
Police stationThornhill Road Police Station880 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone490 m (0.3 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Handsworth Park 27 ha260 m
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,200 m²540 m (0.3 miles)
Playing fieldUnnamed 4.8 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gibson Road Allotments 1,440 m²160 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 30 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade II*), 400 m (0.2 miles) north-west. 45 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 4 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*400 m (0.2 miles) north-west
Handsworth Park (Formerly Victoria Park)Registered park or garden, Grade II650 m (0.4 miles) north-west
King Edward VI Handsworth School for Girls with boundary gates, railings and piersListed building, Grade II*710 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Soho HouseListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Holy Trinity ChurchListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) east
Key Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Halfmoon PlantationWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) north
Soho LoopLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) south
Perry ReservoirLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) north
Garden GroveWood3 km (1.9 miles) north-west
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) south
Forge Mill LakeLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) north-west

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)16.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.2205
Particles (PM10)12.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 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
55 to 5910
Under 55910

1 of the street's 10 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, 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
St Clare's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11390 m Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Welford Primary SchoolPrimary3–11410 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
St Marys C of E Primary and Nursery, Academy, Handsworth Church of EnglandPrimary3–11460 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Heathfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11570 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Westminster Primary SchoolPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
King Edward VI Handsworth SchoolSecondary11–18690 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
Nishkam Primary School Birmingham SikhPrimary4–11870 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
St Michael's CofE Primary Academy, Handsworth Church of EnglandPrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Holy Trinity CE Primary Academy (Handsworth) Church of EnglandPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Anglesey Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Francis Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Sacred Heart Catholic School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 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: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
Little Smarties Academy B20 2REHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises190 m5 Very good9 Sep 2026
Seven Up Charity B20 2RJOther catering premises280 mAwaiting inspection
Petersfield Care Home B20 3RPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good26 Jun 2009
Sachkhand Nanak Dham B20 3TNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen300 m5 Very good21 Sep 2023
St Peters Hall B20 3RPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises310 m5 Very good25 Feb 2026
BlackSheepSpuds B20 3RPMobile caterer320 mAwaiting inspection
Henlon House B20 3RTHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house320 m5 Very good31 Jan 2020
St Clares Catholic Primary School B20 3RTSchool/college/university320 m5 Very good28 Sep 2023
Healthstop Pharmacy B20 2QRRetailers - other350 mExempt
Radnor House B20 3SPHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises370 m5 Very good10 Mar 2026
Choudry Foodstores B20 3PDRetailers - other380 m4 Good26 Jun 2009
HopeLozell Edible Print B20 2QROther catering premises380 mAwaiting inspection
Handsworth Association of Schools B20 2BLOther catering premises440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good3 Feb 2026
Welford Primary School B20 2BLSchool/college/university440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good21 Sep 2023
Welford Stores B20 2PSRetailers - other440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good24 Dec 2009

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.

87 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences45
Other theft8
Vehicle crime7
Public order7
Criminal damage and arson4
Bicycle theft4
Anti-social behaviour3
Other crime3
Robbery2
Theft from the person2
Drugs2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Wellesbourne Road (24); On or near Beaudesert Road (19); On or near Gibson Drive (14); On or near North Drive (12); On or near Gibson Road (9).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 2 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 695 residents in 208 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 age3640
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)44%61%
Owned outright28%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented38%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work42%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)18%6%
Retired (of adults)11%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)25%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)79%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all9%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all 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

Gibson Road · Beaudesert Road · West Drive · Wellesbourne Road · Brecon Road · North Drive · Bowling Green Lane · Winston Drive · James Watt Drive · Victoriana Way · Wye Cliff Road · Church Vale

All the streets in B20 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.