Murrell Close Birmingham

175 addresses across 5 postcodes (B5), about 170 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2702057.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £265,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 125 homes have an energy certificate (B: 43, C: 46, D: 26, E: 7, F: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area 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 67% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Five Ways, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 20 m away, and Calthorpe Park (16 hectares) is about 460 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 17.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 112 to 115 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 165 of its 216 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bellevue Medical Centre, about 60 m away, with 9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,380 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 18% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 242 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
20221£265,000£265,000£265,000
20111£68,000£68,000£68,000
20081£52,000£52,000£52,000
20061£95,000£95,000£95,000
Most recent sales (6)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Sep 20259 B5 7NBFlat or maisonette£150,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Jul 20227 B5 7NBTerraced£265,000
22 Dec 201625 B5 7NBFlat or maisonette£99,950Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Nov 2011FLAT 44, OTTAWA TOWER B5 7LZFlat or maisonette£68,000Leasehold.
15 Dec 2008FLAT 33, OTTAWA TOWER B5 7LZFlat or maisonette£52,000Leasehold.
28 Apr 200625 B5 7NBFlat or maisonette£95,000Leasehold.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026 (load in progress). Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from January 2013 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

125 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 68 m². Most common: Flat (94); Maisonette, mid-terrace (12); House, semi-detached (8). Built: 1950-1966 (111); 2003-2006 (8); 1967-1975 (3). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (107); owner-occupied (16); rented (private) (2).

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 (49% of about 1,790 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 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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 2 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 18 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 0 low and 12 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 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
B5 7LZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B5 7NAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B5 7LYzone 2 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B5 7NBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
B5 7NPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 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 216 addresses are between 112 m and 115 m above sea level (113 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
B5 7LY100%67%67%0%
B5 7LZ100%100%100%0%
B5 7NA100%100%100%0%
B5 7NB100%100%100%0%
B5 7NP100%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 km (0.6 miles)
Birmingham New Street 37 million journeys in 2024–251.3 km (0.8 miles)
Birmingham Moor Street 7.1 million journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Underground, metro or tramDigbeth High Street (West Midlands Metro)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Five Ways (West Midlands Metro)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Grand Central (West Midlands Metro)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops16 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Bellevue Highgate100 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kent Street Car Park670 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points11 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station200 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX10.4 km (6.5 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 surgeries9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bellevue Medical Centre60 m
Pharmacies15 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bellevue Pharmacy240 m
NHS dentists8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery240 m
HospitalBmi The Priory Hospital1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationDigbeth Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone120 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 Unnamed 4,310 m²20 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Calthorpe Park 16 ha460 m (0.3 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 460 m²60 m
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,490 m²620 m (0.4 miles)
AllotmentsMoor Green Allotments 11 ha1.9 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 19 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Alban the Martyr, a listed building (Grade II*), 790 m (0.5 miles) east. 129 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St Alban the MartyrListed building, Grade II*790 m (0.5 miles) east
The de Birmingham moated site, the seat of the medieval Lords of BirminghamScheduled monument1.2 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Cannon Hill ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.6 km (1 mile) south
Edgbaston HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Edgbaston PoolLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) north-west
Soho LoopLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) north-west
Moor PoolLake or reservoir3.7 km (2.3 miles) west
Coldbath PoolLake or reservoir3.9 km (2.4 miles) south-east
The GroveWood3.9 km (2.4 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)17.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.2205
Particles (PM10)13.24015

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
60 to 64930
55 to 59720
Under 5551216

165 of the street's 216 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), 1 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
Lillian De Lissa Nursery SchoolNursery2–560 m 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
Oasis Academy WoodviewPrimary4–11400 m (0.2 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 Thomas Centre Nursery SchoolNursery2–5590 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jul 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Lift Percy ShurmerPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Chandos Primary SchoolPrimary2–11630 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Catherine of Siena Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11670 m (0.4 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Thomas Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–11690 m (0.4 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
Ark St Alban's Academy Church of EnglandSecondary11–18720 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
City AcademySecondary11–16860 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; 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 SchoolPrimary4–11940 m (0.6 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 SchoolNursery2–51 km (0.6 miles) Outstanding (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College16 plus16–991.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Lillian De Lissa After School Club B5 7LXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises60 m5 Very good4 Mar 2015
Mcdonalds Restaurants Ltd B5 7TTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good5 Feb 2020
The Curiosity Garden Nursery B5 7BSHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises140 mAwaiting inspection
Pistachio & Peach B5 7TUOther catering premises200 mAwaiting inspection
Wots Cookin JB B5 7TUMobile caterer200 m2 Improvement necessary4 Aug 2026
Cafe Noir B5 7TURestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m4 Good18 Sep 2024
Blue Cedars B5 7NXHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises240 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Feb 2026
Matcha and Yap B5 7XPMobile caterer260 mAwaiting inspection
Cheeky Monkeys Day Nursery B15 2HAHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good15 Jun 2026
House of Wok B5 7NXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen260 m5 Very good27 Jan 2025
Simply local B5 7NXRetailers - other260 mAwaiting inspection
Mallow Rd B5 7LAMobile caterer280 mAwaiting inspection
Greggs B15 2DZRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen290 m5 Very good8 Oct 2020
Spar B5 7TURetailers - other290 m5 Very good11 Oct 2018
Go Canned B15 2DZOther catering premises320 mAwaiting inspection

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.

242 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences94
Public order29
Vehicle crime26
Criminal damage and arson22
Anti-social behaviour18
Burglary13
Other theft11
Drugs8
Robbery8
Possession of weapons5
Bicycle theft3
Theft from the person2
Other crime2
Shoplifting1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Stone Road (50); On or near Police Station (40); On or near Rathbone Close (27); On or near St Lawrence Close (23); On or near A4540 (22).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,382 residents in 422 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 age2440
Children under 1525%17%
Aged 65 and over5%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)18%61%
Owned outright9%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented73%17%
Private rented8%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work37%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)23%6%
Retired (of adults)6%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus24%8%
On foot or by bicycle18%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)81%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)25%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 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

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

St Lawrence Close · Bellevue · Benmore Avenue · Tylney Close · Clover Walk · Rathbone Close · Stratford House Road · Stone Road · Kemble Croft · Latimer Gardens · Varden Croft · Spring Road

All the streets in B5 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.