Horton Square Birmingham

39 addresses across 2 postcodes (B12), about 90 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 2701826.

  • Sales: 5 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £55,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (C: 6, D: 11).
  • Flood: 46 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 49% to 75% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Bordesley, about 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Calthorpe Park, is about 300 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 106 to 107 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 39 of its 39 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Wand Medical Centre, about 240 m away, with 11 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 700 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 31% of households owned their home and 26% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 236 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
20211£55,000£55,000£55,000
20061£68,000£68,000£68,000
19971£21,261£21,261£21,261
Most recent sales (5)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
28 Apr 202128 B12 0YROther£95,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Mar 202128 B12 0YRFlat or maisonette£55,000Leasehold.
16 Nov 201825 - 27 B12 0YROther£50,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
24 Feb 200626 B12 0YRFlat or maisonette£68,000Leasehold.
28 Jan 199728 B12 0YRFlat or maisonette£21,261Leasehold.

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 December 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

17 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 53 m². Most common: Flat (9); Maisonette, mid-terrace (4); Bungalow, end-terrace (1). Built: 1967-1975 (6); 1950-1966 (6); 1976-1982 (4). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (12); owner-occupied (4); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (2 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 (64% of about 660 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: 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

Finished in the last three months

  • 4 September 2026: BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the carriageway (minor works)

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, 42 addresses are in areas at high risk, 4 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: of the 38 homes the Environment Agency counts, 23 are in areas at high risk, 2 medium, 0 low and 0 very low.

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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 3. Zone 3 is a 1% (1 in 100) or greater annual chance of flooding from rivers, or 0.5% from the sea, ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
B12 0YRzone 3 29 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B12 0XRnot in 2 or 3 13 / 4 / 1 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 39 addresses are between 106 m and 107 m above sea level (106 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
B12 0XR75%75%75%0%
B12 0YR49%49%49%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 stationsBordesley 29,000 journeys in 2024–251.2 km (0.7 miles)
Birmingham New Street 37 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Birmingham Moor Street 7.1 million journeys in 2024–251.5 km (1 mile)
Underground, metro or tramDigbeth High Street (West Midlands Metro)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Meriden Street (West Midlands Metro)1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Grand Central (West Midlands Metro)1.6 km (1 mile)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 44 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Longmore Street Highgate70 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Car parksKent Street Car Park810 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points14 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station450 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX9.8 km (6.1 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 The Wand Medical Centre240 m
Pharmacies17 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Medx Pharmacy240 m
NHS dentists10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery650 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalBmi The Priory Hospital1.7 km (1 mile)
Police stationDigbeth Police Station1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Highgate Market, Horton Square Cashzone20 m

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 Calthorpe Park 16 ha300 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 510 m²390 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,490 m²330 m
AllotmentsMoor Green Allotments 11 ha2 km (1.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 20 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Alban the Martyr, a listed building (Grade II*), 230 m east. 54 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Alban the MartyrListed building, Grade II*230 m east
Friends' Institute Building, 220 Moseley RoadListed building, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) east
Stratford HouseListed building, Grade II*780 m (0.5 miles) east
Balsall Heath Library and Balsall Heath Public BathsListed building, Grade II*930 m (0.6 miles) south-east
The de Birmingham moated site, the seat of the medieval Lords of BirminghamScheduled monument1.2 km (0.7 miles) north
Cannon Hill ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
Edgbaston HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Edgbaston PoolLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-west
Soho LoopLake or reservoir3.5 km (2.2 miles) north-west
Coldbath PoolLake or reservoir3.6 km (2.2 miles) south
Moseley New PoolLake or reservoir4 km (2.5 miles) south-east
The GroveWood4.4 km (2.7 miles) south-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)17.34010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.2205
Particles (PM10)13.34015

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
70 to 74160
65 to 69230
Under 55039

39 of the street's 39 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), 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
Lift Percy ShurmerPrimary3–11150 m Outstanding (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ark St Alban's Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–18180 m Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chandos Primary SchoolPrimary2–11250 m Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College16 plus16–99520 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Lillian De Lissa Nursery SchoolNursery2–5540 m (0.3 miles) Report card (May 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Heath Mount Primary SchoolPrimary4–11570 m (0.4 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Jakeman Nursery SchoolNursery2–5910 m (0.6 miles) Outstanding (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Harper Bell Seventh-day Adventist School Seventh Day AdventistPrimary4–11920 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Inadequate; Behaviour and attitudes: Requires improvement; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Inadequate
Oasis Academy WoodviewPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Anne's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Thomas Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Feb 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

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
Adnan Market B12 0YRRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets10 m2 Improvement necessary6 Jun 2024
Central Market B12 0YRRetailers - other20 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Jun 2026
UK fried chicken Birmingham B12 0YRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good14 Oct 2024
Juice Time B12 0YRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good9 Oct 2025
Syrian House B12 0YRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen30 m5 Very good25 Oct 2024
Aubads Cafe and Sweets Centre B12 0YROther catering premises30 m5 Very good9 Sep 2024
Tru Spice Groceries B12 0XRRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets60 m4 Good23 Apr 2019
Post Office B5 7JPRetailers - other70 mExempt
Big Johns B5 7JETakeaway/sandwich shop100 m5 Very good14 Jan 2026
Zahra Childcare Centre B5 7JEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m4 Good16 Sep 2026
Highgate Baptist Church B12 0YLRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good11 Jul 2022
Magnolia Day Centre B12 0YLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises100 m5 Very good5 Mar 2013
Greggs B12 0XRRetailers - other120 m5 Very good22 Nov 2010
Highgate Newsagents B12 0XRRetailers - other120 mExempt
S & K Halal Meat B12 0XRRetailers - other120 m3 Generally satisfactory30 Jan 2024

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.

236 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences79
Vehicle crime27
Anti-social behaviour22
Drugs18
Robbery15
Other theft15
Criminal damage and arson13
Public order13
Burglary11
Shoplifting9
Possession of weapons6
Other crime4
Theft from the person3
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Clissold Close (49); On or near Highgate Close (44); On or near Parking Area (42); On or near Horton Square (34); On or near Berrington Walk (27).

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: 700 residents in 212 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 age2740
Children under 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)31%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented51%17%
Private rented16%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work39%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)16%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van36%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus21%8%
On foot or by bicycle17%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)87%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)26%34%
No qualifications29%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification2%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)77%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all12%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

Clissold Close · Highgate Street · Gooch Street · Cumberland Avenue · Longmore Street · Highgate Close · Berrington Walk · Parkes Avenue · Thomas Benson Place · Kinver Croft · James Samuel Place · St Luke's Road

All the streets in B12 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.