Harold Road Birmingham

53 addresses across 4 postcodes (B16), about 180 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2751553.

  • Sales: 88 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £200,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Birmingham cost £234,867 in August 2026 (+1.5% on a year); private rents averaged £1,106 a month.
  • Energy: 43 homes have an energy certificate (C: 8, D: 27, E: 6, F: 2).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A456, carries 38,577 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 Five Ways, about 1.4 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Chamberlain Gardens, is about 220 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 158 to 160 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 10 of its 53 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Karis Medical Centre, about 130 m away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 640 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 25% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 265 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 1 of them fatal or serious; 2 involved a pedestrian.

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House 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£200,000£200,000£200,000
20241£275,000£275,000£275,000
20231£190,000£190,000£190,000
20191£225,000£225,000£225,000
20181£158,500£158,500£158,500
20172£142,000£134,000£150,000
20161£199,950£199,950£199,950
20132£102,610£62,220£143,000
20121£121,000£121,000£121,000
20111£145,000£145,000£145,000
20101£110,000£110,000£110,000
20093£115,000£115,000£128,000
All 88 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Jun 19951 B16 9DNTerraced£45,000
1 Sep 20252 B16 9DATerraced£205,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jun 20094 B16 9DATerraced£115,000
20 Oct 20004 B16 9DATerraced£53,950
29 May 20266 B16 9DATerraced£245,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 May 20266 B16 9DATerraced£210,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Oct 20186 B16 9DATerraced£250,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Sep 20026 B16 9DATerraced£98,000
9 Oct 19967 B16 9DNTerraced£45,000
5 Sep 20248 B16 9DATerraced£172,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 May 20189 B16 9DNTerraced£158,500
7 Sep 20169 B16 9DNTerraced£165,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Sep 20069 B16 9DNTerraced£147,500
23 May 19979 B16 9DNTerraced£49,000
13 Apr 19959 B16 9DNTerraced£46,500
3 Jul 200610 B16 9DATerraced£142,000
7 Jul 200010 B16 9DATerraced£59,000
15 Mar 201811 B16 9DNTerraced£175,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 May 200511 B16 9DNTerraced£145,500
29 Oct 200111 B16 9DNTerraced£89,950
10 Feb 199711 B16 9DNTerraced£50,000
6 Jun 200712 B16 9DATerraced£178,850
16 Feb 200112 B16 9DATerraced£70,000
28 Jun 199612 B16 9DATerraced£51,950
2 Feb 201815 B16 9DNTerraced£182,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Aug 200915 B16 9DNTerraced£128,000
28 Jun 200215 B16 9DNTerraced£81,000
3 Nov 202316 B16 9DATerraced£190,000
21 Jul 200619 B16 9DNTerraced£105,000
21 Jul 200619 B16 9DNTerraced£105,000Leasehold.
18 Mar 201120 B16 9DATerraced£145,000
28 Jan 200020 B16 9DATerraced£62,500
7 Jul 199720 B16 9DATerraced£44,000
9 May 202221 B16 9DNSemi-detached£265,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Apr 201921 B16 9DNSemi-detached£220,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Jun 200021 B16 9DNSemi-detached£55,000
27 Mar 202322 B16 9DATerraced£275,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Jan 201322 B16 9DATerraced£143,000
30 Apr 201022 B16 9DATerraced£110,000
24 Jun 199822 B16 9DATerraced£43,000
6 Jan 201723 B16 9DWSemi-detached£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Dec 200323 B16 9DWSemi-detached£138,000
12 Jan 200123 B16 9DWSemi-detached£70,500
23 Jan 199823 B16 9DWSemi-detached£56,000
19 Jan 199623 B16 9DWSemi-detached£52,000
31 May 200724 B16 9DATerraced£172,500
20 May 200324 B16 9DATerraced£100,000
28 Jun 202425 B16 9DWDetached£275,000
24 Nov 200325 B16 9DWDetached£201,000
15 Oct 200225 B16 9DWDetached£135,500
28 Nov 202525A B16 9DWDetached£400,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Mar 201925A B16 9DWDetached£225,000
24 Jun 200526 B16 9DATerraced£133,500
24 Oct 200326 B16 9DATerraced£117,500
20 Nov 202034 B16 9DADetached£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Feb 200434 B16 9DADetached£136,000
31 Jan 200234 B16 9DADetached£85,000
9 Sep 202236 B16 9DATerraced£320,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Jul 201836 B16 9DATerraced£253,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Jun 200236 B16 9DATerraced£94,950
5 Jul 201638 B16 9DATerraced£199,950
16 Apr 199638 B16 9DATerraced£30,000
4 Sep 201740 B16 9DATerraced£240,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Mar 200140 B16 9DATerraced£59,950
30 Oct 199842 B16 9DATerraced£45,000
22 Oct 200946 B16 9DATerraced£115,000
13 Jun 199646 B16 9DATerraced£33,250
24 Apr 201748 B16 9DATerraced£134,000
2 Oct 201348 B16 9DATerraced£62,220
9 Apr 202150 B16 9DATerraced£450,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Nov 201750 B16 9DATerraced£150,000
4 Sep 201250 B16 9DATerraced£121,000
4 Feb 200250 B16 9DATerraced£74,950
4 May 202152 B16 9DATerraced£450,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Dec 202052 B16 9DATerraced£450,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Apr 201952 B16 9DATerraced£165,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 Apr 199552 B16 9DATerraced£32,000
24 Jun 200454 B16 9DATerraced£65,000
19 Dec 199754 B16 9DATerraced£34,000
17 Feb 199956 B16 9DATerraced£35,000
14 Mar 202558 B16 9DATerraced£200,000
7 Aug 199858 B16 9DATerraced£41,000
28 Jul 200660 B16 9DATerraced£135,000
16 Sep 200560 B16 9DATerraced£105,000
1 Sep 201662 B16 9DATerraced£138,600Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Apr 200662 B16 9DATerraced£144,000
22 May 199862 B16 9DATerraced£55,000
30 Aug 199662 B16 9DATerraced£23,800

House prices and rents in Birmingham

A typical home in Birmingham cost £234,867 in August 2026, 1.5% more than a year before. That is 13% more than five years earlier and 47% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£444,169
Semi-detached£276,268
Terraced£223,462
Flat or maisonette£143,861
Bought by a first-time buyer£212,774

Private renters in Birmingham paid £1,106 a month on average in September 2026, 3.3% more than a year before. That is 36% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£834
Two bedrooms£1,009
Three bedrooms£1,141
Four or more bedrooms£1,587

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

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 October 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

43 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 102 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (30); House, end-terrace (6); Flat (4). Built: 1900-1929 (34); before 1900 (6); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (25); owner-occupied (14); rented (social) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (43 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 15,178 kWh of it on average in 2024, 12% more than the district's 13,555 kWh, and 3,545 kWh of electricity, 13% less than the district's 4,053 kWh. There are gas meters for about 99% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
B16 9DA303,122 kWh 3114,893 kWh
B16 9DN112,782 kWh 1116,221 kWh
B16 9PS302,119 kWh 287,267 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is B16.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

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 (46% of about 680 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 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: 5.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 1 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
B16 9DAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B16 9DNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B16 9DWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
B16 9PSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; 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.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 53 addresses are between 158 m and 160 m above sea level (159 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
B16 9DA100%100%100%0%
B16 9DN100%100%100%0%
B16 9DW100%100%100%0%
B16 9PS100%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 stationsFive Ways 1.3 million journeys in 2024–251.4 km (0.9 miles)
Jewellery Quarter 446,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.2 miles)
Birmingham New Street 37 million journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.4 miles)
Underground, metro or tramEdgbaston Village (West Midlands Metro)720 m (0.4 miles)
Five Ways (West Midlands Metro)1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Brindleyplace (West Midlands Metro)1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops6 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 39 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Water Works Road Ladywood220 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Car parks3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Duchess Road Pay and Display Car Park570 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points18 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station110 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX12.7 km (7.9 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. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). 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 surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Karis Medical Centre Good Oct 2019130 m
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Noor Pharmacy130 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Imperial Dental Group - Monument Rd260 m
HospitalBirmingham City Hospital Requires improvement Jan 20261.4 km (0.9 miles)
Care homes12 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Triple S Care & Support Services Good Jan 2019180 m
Police stationLadywood Police Station480 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest SRB Grills - Birmingham Cashzone620 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Chamberlain Gardens 3.8 ha220 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 4.4 ha290 m
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 500 m²220 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6,640 m²170 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 400 m²1 km (0.6 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is The Monument (Observatory), a listed building (Grade II*), 160 m south-east. 117 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 5 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
The Monument (Observatory)Listed building, Grade II*160 m south-east
The Church of the Immaculate Conception (The Oratory), the Oratory Priests' House and the Former Oratory School BuildingsListed building, Grade II*450 m (0.3 miles) south-east
Giles HouseListed building, Grade II*720 m (0.4 miles) south-east
17 and 19, Rotton Park Road B16Listed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) west
Birmingham Botanical GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1 km (0.7 miles) south
Westbourne Road Town GardensRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.5 km (0.9 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir570 m (0.4 miles) north
Soho LoopLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
Moor PoolLake or reservoir2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Edgbaston PoolLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) south
The GroveWood3.2 km (2 miles) south-west
Thimblemill PoolLake or reservoir3.2 km (2 miles) 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)15.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

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 59100
Under 554353

10 of the street's 53 addresses are 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), 5 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Blessed Dominic Barberi Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11310 m Inadequate (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
St George's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11380 m Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 57% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
St Paul's School for Girls Roman CatholicSecondary11–18580 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 65.9 (61.0 in 2025 and 65.1 in 2024); 82% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B; 15.2% AAB or better; progress below average
St John's & St Peter's CofE Primary Church of EnglandPrimary4–11690 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 70% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
Barford Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 59% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 54% in 2023)
BOA Stage and Screen Production Academy16 plus16–191 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C+; 0% AAB or better; progress well below average
St Patrick and St Edmund's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 52% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
Nelson Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 72% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 68% in 2023)
City Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 69% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 54% in 2023)
Jewellery Quarter AcademySecondary11–161.5 km (0.9 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Requires improvement; Leadership and management: Inadequate GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 38.1 (35.2 in 2025 and 32.9 in 2024); 30.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
Summerfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (1 mile) Requires improvement (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 41% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025)
Chad Vale Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 75% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 870 m (0.5 miles); the nearest is 140 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Blossoms on the Reservoir B16 9EG Full day care 75 Not inspected yet 140 m
Yellow Penguin B16 9AG Full day care 58 Jan 2026: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 5 350 m
Baby Gems Playhouse B16 8TF Full day care 50 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 370 m
Edgbaston Grange Day Nursery B16 9RP Full day care 105 Good (Oct 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 590 m (0.4 miles)
Ibtikaar Nursery B16 8RP Sessional day care 47 Not inspected yet 620 m (0.4 miles)
Highfield Day Nursery B15 3ED Full day care 94 Outstanding (Aug 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 650 m (0.4 miles)
Little Trolls Day Care Ltd B16 0AA Full day care 50 Good (Mar 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 650 m (0.4 miles)
Little Wonders Pre-School B16 8EL Sessional day care 40 Good (Dec 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 700 m (0.4 miles)
Perrotts Folly Nursery B16 8ED Full day care Not inspected yet 850 m (0.5 miles)
SENtre B16 0SG Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 870 m (0.5 miles)

Ofsted also registers 319 childminders and 119 home childcarers (nannies) in Birmingham. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 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
Reservoir News B16 9DRRetailers - other120 m4 Good30 Jun 2026
Oratory Primary School B16 9ERSchool/college/university220 m5 Very good4 Feb 2026
FLAME PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF CHERUB B16 8XFOther catering premises230 m4 Good18 Nov 2025
Reservoir Cafe B16 9DXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m3 Generally satisfactory7 Sep 2026
Monument Wines B16 8UURetailers - other280 m4 Good22 Jan 2024
Edgbaston Cafe B16 8UURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good3 Jun 2026
Ladywood Childrens Centre B16 8URHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good27 May 2014
Golden Fish Fry B16 8UUTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good27 Mar 2026
S&A Stores B16 8UURetailers - other340 m5 Very good5 Mar 2014
Liberty Pizza and Burgers B16 8UUTakeaway/sandwich shop340 m5 Very good4 Mar 2025
Bondhall Ltd B16 8UURetailers - other340 mExempt
Liberty Pizza & Burgers B16 8UURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 mAwaiting inspection
Sody's Breakfast & Lunch B16 8UZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen370 m5 Very good5 Jun 2024
Miss Li's Kitchen B16 8UUTakeaway/sandwich shop380 m2 Improvement necessary9 Jul 2025
St Georges Primary School Academy B16 8HYSchool/college/university380 m5 Very good24 Nov 2025

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.

265 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences105
Burglary35
Vehicle crime25
Criminal damage and arson25
Other theft16
Public order11
Drugs11
Robbery9
Possession of weapons9
Anti-social behaviour9
Other crime7
Theft from the person2
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Waterworks Road (44); On or near Bellis Street (38); On or near Meyrick Walk (34); On or near Leslie Road (26); On or near Carlyle Road (18).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

5 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 4 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 2 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202221
202300
202410
202510
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
9 Jan 2025 08:22 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Wet road
10 May 2024 20:25 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
14 Sep 2022 18:39 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
13 Mar 2022 04:15 Serious 3 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
31 Jul 2021 19:10 Slight 2 people Minor road, 20 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A456 between A4040 and A4540, with 38,577 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 460 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A456 A4040 to A4540 38,577 estimated; counted 2023 2% +5% since 2015 460 m (0.3 miles)

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

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: 642 residents in 214 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 age2540
Children under 157%17%
Aged 65 and over6%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)25%61%
Owned outright16%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented55%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work41%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)22%6%
Retired (of adults)5%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van28%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus17%8%
On foot or by bicycle24%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)75%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away16%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications14%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)85%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 2 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

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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

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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; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • 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.