Longford Close Birmingham

52 addresses across 1 postcode (B32), about 300 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2708919.

  • Sales: 18 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £160,000 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: 38 homes have an energy certificate (C: 29, D: 9).
  • Flood: 5 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 B; 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 Northfield, about 3.9 km (2.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 420 m (0.3 miles) away, and Woodgate Valley Country Park (202 hectares) is about 500 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 205 to 208 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 9 of its 52 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bartley Green Medical Practice, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 41% of households owned their home and 24% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 68 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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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£160,000£160,000£160,000
20241£218,000£218,000£218,000
20232£96,000£89,000£103,000
20212£148,750£147,500£150,000
20191£139,000£139,000£139,000
20161£91,000£91,000£91,000
20141£90,000£90,000£90,000
20131£102,000£102,000£102,000
20062£118,500£118,000£119,000
20041£116,000£116,000£116,000
20022£59,750£56,500£63,000
20001£35,000£35,000£35,000
Most recent sales (18)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 May 202514 B32 4JUSemi-detached£160,000
9 Feb 202480 B32 4JUTerraced£185,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jan 202422 B32 4JUTerraced£218,000
28 Jun 202327 B32 4JUTerraced£103,000
12 Apr 202327 B32 4JUTerraced£89,000
16 Mar 202126 B32 4JUSemi-detached£150,000
8 Jan 202112 B32 4JUSemi-detached£147,500
2 Aug 201976 B32 4JUTerraced£139,000
5 Feb 201666 B32 4JUTerraced£91,000
20 Aug 201452 B32 4JUTerraced£90,000
26 Jul 201330 B32 4JUTerraced£102,000
6 Oct 200620 B32 4JUTerraced£118,000
11 Aug 200622 B32 4JUTerraced£119,000
15 Dec 200422 B32 4JUTerraced£116,000
26 Mar 200226 B32 4JUSemi-detached£63,000
8 Feb 200276 B32 4JUTerraced£56,500
4 Feb 200076 B32 4JUTerraced£35,000
21 Aug 199814 B32 4JUTerraced£39,000

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 August 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

38 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 78 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (14); House, end-terrace (10); Bungalow, end-terrace (4). Built: 1976-1982 (20); 1967-1975 (14); 1950-1966 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (24); owner-occupied (8); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (38 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 B (51% of about 670 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.

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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 3 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 is in flood zone 2 or 3.

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.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 52 addresses are between 205 m and 208 m above sea level (207 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
B32 4JU100%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 stationsNorthfield 643,000 journeys in 2024–253.9 km (2.4 miles)
Longbridge 892,000 journeys in 2024–254.1 km (2.6 miles)
Selly Oak 2.3 million journeys in 2024–255.3 km (3.3 miles)
Bus stops5 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Harlech Close Kitwell100 m
Bus or coach stationHalesowen Bus Station3.6 km (2.2 miles)
EV charging points2 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gridserve Charging Station500 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX18.1 km (11 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bartley Green Medical Practice1 km (0.6 miles)
Pharmacies2 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Knights Bartley Green Pharmacy660 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery650 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalRoyal Orthopaedic Hospital3.5 km (2.2 miles)
Police stationHalesowen Police Station3.2 km (2 miles)
Cash machinesATM1.6 km (1 mile)

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 Unnamed 3,460 m²420 m (0.3 miles)
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Woodgate Valley Country Park 202 ha500 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 720 m²410 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3.8 ha630 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wychbury Road Allotments 9,990 m²280 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 3 parks and gardens, 204 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Moated site of Frankley Hall, a scheduled monument, 860 m (0.5 miles) south-east. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Moated site of Frankley HallScheduled monument860 m (0.5 miles) south-east
Church of St LeonardListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Standing cross in St Leonards churchyardScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Frankley Lower BeechesWood430 m (0.3 miles) south
Bromwich WoodWood550 m (0.3 miles) east
Raven Hays WoodWood630 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Bartley ReservoirLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) east
Weston DingleValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) west
Egg HillHill1.5 km (0.9 miles) south

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)11.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.54015

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 5990
Under 554352

9 of the street's 52 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), 4 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
Kitwell Primary SchoolPrimary4–11280 m Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Michael's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
King Edward VI Five Ways SchoolSecondary11–18890 m (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Woodgate Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Peter's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Report card (Dec 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Bartley Green SchoolSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Shenley Fields Nursery SchoolNursery2–51.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection
Woodcock Hill Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.9 km (1.2 miles) Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 4 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
Kitwell News B32 4JSRetailers - other150 m4 Good26 Feb 2015
Kitwell Primary School B32 4DLSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good18 Jul 2024
Costa Coffee At Moto (North) B32 4ARTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good25 Nov 2025
M & S Simply Food At Moto (North) B32 4ARRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good4 Feb 2025
W H Smith At Moto (South) B32 4ARRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
M & S Simply Food At Moto (South) B32 4ARRetailers - supermarkets/hypermarkets400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good17 Dec 2024
Greggs At Moto (South) B32 4ARTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good25 Nov 2025
W H Smith At Moto (North) B32 4ARTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt
Travelodge Frankley M5 Southbound B32 4ARHotel/bed & breakfast/guest house400 m (0.2 miles)Exempt

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.

68 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences41
Vehicle crime7
Criminal damage and arson5
Other theft5
Burglary3
Public order2
Robbery2
Other crime1
Shoplifting1
Possession of weapons1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Harlech Close (23); On or near Maxstoke Close (11); On or near Stuarts Way (11); On or near Dover Close (7); On or near Pembridge Close (7).

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.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

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.

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: 261 residents in 113 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 age4040
Children under 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over19%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)41%61%
Owned outright18%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented48%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work49%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)16%6%
Retired (of adults)23%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus23%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)24%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)93%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%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.

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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.

  • B32 4JU: 52 addresses of 54 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Maxstoke Close · Dover Close · Harlech Close · Pembridge Close · Balmoral Road · Stuarts Way · Kyles Way · Kintore Croft · Lady Bank · Wychbury Road · Earls Ferry Gardens · Windsor View

All the streets in B32 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; 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.