Oliver Road Birmingham

50 addresses across 2 postcodes (B23), about 220 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2708093.

  • Sales: 99 recorded sales since 1995; in 2024 the median was £179,500 across 2 sales.
  • 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: 36 homes have an energy certificate (C: 1, D: 21, E: 14).
  • 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.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 0 times (0 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Fort Industrial Park (Castle Bromwich), is 3.3 km (2 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the B4142, carries 10,345 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 Erdington, about 300 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Abbey Fields Park, is about 330 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.4 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 117 to 124 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 5 of its 50 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Poplars Surgery, about 510 m (0.3 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 580 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 52% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 137 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 1 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
20242£179,500£170,000£189,000
20221£205,000£205,000£205,000
20212£152,500£125,000£180,000
20192£140,000£120,000£160,000
20181£180,000£180,000£180,000
20173£120,000£120,000£142,000
20161£124,000£124,000£124,000
20154£121,500£111,000£124,500
20141£123,000£123,000£123,000
20132£107,000£102,000£112,000
20123£106,500£92,000£115,000
20112£108,000£105,000£111,000
All 99 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
5 Sep 20195 B23 6QDTerraced£132,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 May 20075 B23 6QDTerraced£125,000
25 May 20015 B23 6QDTerraced£64,950
8 Feb 20086 B23 6QDSemi-detached£128,000
28 Jul 20056 B23 6QDSemi-detached£112,200
27 Feb 20267 B23 6QDTerraced£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
1 Aug 20197 B23 6QDTerraced£160,000
24 Mar 20157 B23 6QDTerraced£124,000
29 Aug 19967 B23 6QDSemi-detached£43,000
24 Oct 20238 B23 6QDTerraced£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Nov 20168 B23 6QDTerraced£124,000
30 Jun 19958 B23 6QDTerraced£42,000
10 May 20249 B23 6QDTerraced£189,000
30 Nov 20179 B23 6QDTerraced£142,000
27 Nov 20159 B23 6QDTerraced£124,500
17 Dec 20109 B23 6QDSemi-detached£114,950
4 Aug 20069 B23 6QDSemi-detached£124,599
26 Jul 20029 B23 6QDSemi-detached£80,000
26 Mar 19979 B23 6QDSemi-detached£43,000
18 Oct 200210 B23 6QDSemi-detached£78,500
11 Oct 199610 B23 6QDSemi-detached£44,000
16 Aug 200211 B23 6QDSemi-detached£74,000
31 Jan 201212 B23 6QDTerraced£106,500
8 Aug 200712 B23 6QDTerraced£122,500
28 Jan 199912 B23 6QDTerraced£42,000
24 Sep 200813 B23 6QDTerraced£121,000
26 Jul 199613 B23 6QDTerraced£38,500
24 Feb 201215 B23 6QDTerraced£92,000
28 Sep 200715 B23 6QDTerraced£128,000
16 Aug 199615 B23 6QDSemi-detached£46,000
24 Nov 201717 B23 6QDTerraced£145,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
23 Nov 200717 B23 6QDTerraced£120,000
9 May 200717 B23 6QDTerraced£100,000
8 Mar 199617 B23 6QDTerraced£43,950
28 Oct 202418 B23 6QDTerraced£172,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
30 Jun 201518 B23 6QDTerraced£111,000
4 May 200418 B23 6QDTerraced£112,000
10 Jun 202219 B23 6QDTerraced£205,000
27 Apr 201219 B23 6QDTerraced£115,000
11 May 200719 B23 6QDTerraced£120,000
1 May 199819 B23 6QDTerraced£45,950
28 Mar 199619 B23 6QDTerraced£43,000
1 Apr 202120 B23 6QDSemi-detached£125,000
19 Apr 201322 B23 6QDTerraced£112,000
17 Nov 200622 B23 6QDTerraced£122,950
31 Jan 200522 B23 6QDTerraced£100,000
25 Jun 199926 B23 6QDSemi-detached£45,000
24 May 199626 B23 6QDSemi-detached£42,000
1 Jun 201828 B23 6QDTerraced£121,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
20 May 200530 B23 6QDTerraced£112,000
12 Feb 199830 B23 6QDTerraced£45,000
16 Jun 199530 B23 6QDTerraced£43,500
20 Oct 202532 B23 6QDTerraced£177,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Aug 201034 B23 6QDTerraced£122,500
9 Nov 200734 B23 6QDTerraced£117,000
16 Dec 199934 B23 6QDTerraced£48,000
22 Oct 200836 B23 6QDTerraced£107,000
28 Nov 201438 B23 6QDTerraced£123,000
20 Aug 201038 B23 6QDTerraced£120,000
16 Aug 200438 B23 6QDTerraced£123,000
2 Jul 200138 B23 6QDTerraced£25,010
22 May 201540 B23 6QDTerraced£119,000
27 Mar 200240 B23 6QDTerraced£74,000
29 Jun 200140 B23 6QDTerraced£67,950
6 Jun 199740 B23 6QDTerraced£44,000
14 Feb 199640 B23 6QDTerraced£33,000
2 Jul 200142 B23 6QDTerraced£64,000
31 Jan 199742 B23 6QDTerraced£39,500
11 Sep 201944 B23 6QDTerraced£120,000
15 Jun 201744 B23 6QDTerraced£120,000
18 Jun 200446 B23 6QDTerraced£109,950
9 Mar 200148 B23 6QDSemi-detached£59,000
20 Oct 201750 B23 6QDTerraced£120,000
5 Aug 200550 B23 6QDTerraced£119,950
25 Oct 200250 B23 6QDTerraced£91,000
22 Dec 201152 B23 6QDTerraced£111,000
27 Oct 200152 B23 6QDDetached£64,950
17 Mar 200358 B23 6QDTerraced£98,000
29 Nov 199658 B23 6QDTerraced£45,000
30 Nov 199560 B23 6QDTerraced£21,200Leasehold.
21 Dec 202162 B23 6QDSemi-detached£180,000
17 Dec 199962 B23 6QDSemi-detached£48,950
7 Sep 201864 B23 6QDTerraced£180,000
6 Jul 201164 B23 6QDTerraced£105,000
28 Sep 201866 B23 6QDTerraced£140,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Oct 201666 B23 6QDTerraced£120,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Jan 200866 B23 6QDTerraced£116,000
27 Jul 200166 B23 6QDTerraced£67,000
14 Jul 202370 B23 6QDSemi-detached£172,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Dec 201370 B23 6QDSemi-detached£102,000
4 Mar 200570 B23 6QDTerraced£117,000
15 Oct 199970 B23 6QDTerraced£54,500
23 Feb 199670 B23 6QDTerraced£43,000
26 Jul 202476 B23 6QDTerraced£170,000
5 Dec 199776 B23 6QDTerraced£37,000
26 Feb 202178 B23 6QDSemi-detached£145,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Dec 200978 B23 6QDSemi-detached£115,000
12 Jul 200278 B23 6QDSemi-detached£71,500
1 Nov 199978 B23 6QDSemi-detached£41,000

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

36 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 84 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (25); House, end-terrace (8); House, semi-detached (3). Built: 1900-1929 (30); before 1900 (4); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (private) (9); rented (social) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (36 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 12,540 kWh of it on average in 2024, 6% more than the district's 11,813 kWh, and 2,885 kWh of electricity, 16% less than the district's 3,449 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
B23 6QD431,948 kWh 4512,551 kWh
B23 6LT342,149 kWh 3711,886 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 B23.

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 B (57% of about 820 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.

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

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Fort Industrial Park (Castle Bromwich) Birmingham 2015/09679/PA Advanced Conversion Technologies 10.2 MW Permission granted, not yet built Jun 2016 3.3 km (2 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

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

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 16 November 2026 to 17 November 2026: BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, road closure, on the verge, footpath (minor works)
  • 4 January 2027 to 18 January 2027: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, multi-way signals, on the footway, carriageway (major (paa) 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 13 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
B23 6QDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B23 6LTnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 13 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

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 0 times, for under an hour in all, in 2025. They discharge into Tributary of Hawthorn Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Green Lanes Cso Severn Trent Water Tributary of Hawthorn Brook 0 0 630 m (0.4 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

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 50 addresses are between 117 m and 124 m above sea level (120 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.

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
B23 6LT100%100%100%0%
B23 6QD100%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 stationsErdington 481,000 journeys in 2024–25300 m
Chester Road 659,000 journeys in 2024–25670 m (0.4 miles)
Wylde Green 521,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops13 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 62 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Somerset Road Short Heath170 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth7.1 km (4.4 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Machin Road Car Park780 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points16 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity240 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX10.5 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. 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Poplars Surgery Good Dec 2016510 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Manor Pharmacy500 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Denbeigh Dental620 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalNorthcroft Hospital1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Care homes25 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boldmere Court Care Home Requires improvement Feb 2023460 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationErdington Police Station550 m (0.3 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Shipleys, Erdington Cashzone740 m (0.5 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 garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Abbey Fields Park 6,610 m²330 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Short Heath Park 6.9 ha700 m (0.4 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 940 m²350 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,010 m²540 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Court Lane Allotments 2.6 ha490 m (0.3 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 8.2 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Roman Catholic Church of St Thomas and St Edmund with Lych Gate and walls to its south-east, a listed building (Grade II*), 320 m south-east. 9 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Roman Catholic Church of St Thomas and St Edmund with Lych Gate and walls to its south-eastListed building, Grade II*320 m south-east
Witton CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.9 km (1.8 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Eachelhurst SpinneyWood2.1 km (1.3 miles) east
Witton LakesLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) west
The DamLake or reservoir2.2 km (1.4 miles) north-east
The ShrubberyWood2.2 km (1.4 miles) east
Brookvale ParkLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-west
Pool SpinneyWood2.3 km (1.4 miles) north-east

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)15.44010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)12.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road, rail and aircraft 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 trafficRailwaysAircraft
65 to 69100
55 to 59400
Under 55455050

5 of the street's 50 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
Abbey Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11290 m No published inspection 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 70% in 2023)
Osborne Nursery SchoolNursery2–4420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Osborne Primary SchoolPrimary5–11430 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 45% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 28% in 2023)
St Edmund Campion Catholic School Roman CatholicSecondary11–18540 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 41.1 (45.8 in 2025 and 47.5 in 2024); 32.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 3.6% AAB or better; progress below average
Wylde Green Primary SchoolPrimary4–11940 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection 84% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 16% at the higher standard (2025; 82% in 2024 and 78% in 2023)
Featherstone Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 64% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 53% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
Yenton Primary SchoolPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 1% at the higher standard (2025; 60% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
Court Farm Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) 40% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 48% in 2024 and 31% in 2023)
Saint Barnabas Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
Featherstone Nursery SchoolNursery2–41.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Oasis Academy Short HeathPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 78% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 66% in 2023)
Penns Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Jan 2026): 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: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 84% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 87% in 2024 and 73% 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 850 m (0.5 miles); the nearest is 310 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Marmadukes Abbey Kids Club B23 6QL Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 310 m
Our Special Angels-New Horizons B23 6UB Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 370 m
Honey Bears Nursery B23 6UE Full day care 50 Not inspected yet 370 m
Angels Day Nursery Sutton B23 6QJ Full day care 40 Good (Dec 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 400 m (0.2 miles)
Instepz Day Nursery B23 6RH Full day care 37 Not inspected yet 500 m (0.3 miles)
Seesaws Day Nursery B73 5HY Full day care 52 Good (Jul 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 660 m (0.4 miles)
Waddles Nursery B23 6LH Full day care 37 Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 680 m (0.4 miles)
The Little Ripley Day Nursery B23 6LH Full day care 52 Good (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 680 m (0.4 miles)
Butterfly Day Nursery B24 0BY Full day care 52 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 780 m (0.5 miles)
Explore Learning Wylde Green B72 1YJ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 850 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
Gravelly Chippy B23 5SGTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good18 Jan 2023
Gravelly Lane News B23 5SGRetailers - other160 m5 Very good2 Sep 2009
The Honeypot Jamaican Takeaway B23 5SGTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good9 Oct 2025
Mimi AFROBITES kitchen B23 5SGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 mAwaiting inspection
Abbey Rc Jmi School B23 6QLSchool/college/university190 m5 Very good22 May 2026
Highclare School B23 6QLSchool/college/university190 m5 Very good15 May 2023
Thomas Franks Ltd B23 6QLOther catering premises190 m5 Very good15 Sep 2026
Restaurant 184 B23 5SNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen200 m5 Very good21 Jul 2026
Pane & Vino B23 5SNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good22 Sep 2026
Insanely Vegan B23 6NGMobile caterer270 m5 Very good3 Feb 2022
Premier Dhillons Convenience Store B23 5SBRetailers - other270 m1 Major improvement necessary9 Feb 2026
Liquor Stop B23 6LRRetailers - other300 m5 Very good28 Jul 2009
Mayflower B23 6LRTakeaway/sandwich shop300 m3 Generally satisfactory16 Sep 2026
COSTCUTTER B23 6LRRetailers - other300 mAwaiting inspection
papine / Papa's all in one B23 5SBOther catering premises310 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.

137 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences76
Criminal damage and arson10
Other theft10
Burglary7
Vehicle crime7
Drugs6
Robbery4
Anti-social behaviour4
Theft from the person3
Public order3
Bicycle theft3
Other crime2
Possession of weapons2

Most of these are attached to: On or near Gravelly Lane (55); On or near Enfield Close (25); On or near Erdington (16); On or near Oliver Road (13); On or near Dean Road (12).

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.

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

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202310
202410
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
26 Aug 2024 12:30 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian B4142, 30 mph Daylight
21 Aug 2023 19:45 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist B4142, 30 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 B4142, with 10,345 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 200 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
B4142 Not recorded 10,345 counted 2025 1% 200 m

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: 579 residents in 272 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 age3840
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)52%61%
Owned outright30%33%
Shared ownership1%1%
Social rented4%17%
Private rented42%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work62%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)9%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van45%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram11%4%
By any public transport, including bus21%8%
On foot or by bicycle10%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)67%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)89%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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

  • Roadworks Street works permit: BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL: Highway improvement works, 16 November 2026 to 17 November 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026

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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.

  • B23 6QD: 49 addresses of 50 in the postcode
  • B23 6LT: 1 address of 45 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Enfield Close · Johnson Road · Dean Road · Haigh Crescent · Somerton Drive · Banners Grove · Sir Benjamin Stone Way · Somerset Road · Stones Green · Gravelly Lane · St Georges Avenue · Portfield Grove

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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.