Rectory Grove Birmingham

24 addresses across 1 postcode (B18), about 70 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2702849.

  • Sales: 20 recorded sales since 1995; in 2016 the median was £95,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 17 homes have an energy certificate (B: 2, C: 10, D: 5).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Jewellery Quarter, about 1.7 km (1.1 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 280 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 15.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 143 to 144 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 24 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Cavendish Medical Practice, about 760 m (0.5 miles) away, with 16 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 460 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 32% of households owned their home and 22% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 170 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
20161£95,000£95,000£95,000
20151£70,000£70,000£70,000
20083£103,000£72,500£122,000
20071£109,000£109,000£109,000
20061£95,500£95,500£95,500
20051£85,000£85,000£85,000
20041£72,000£72,000£72,000
20032£63,250£45,000£81,500
20023£42,500£35,000£43,000
19992£36,750£35,500£38,000
19971£33,000£33,000£33,000
19961£39,000£39,000£39,000
Most recent sales (20)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
23 Apr 202624 B18 5SGTerraced£127,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Mar 20269 B18 5SGTerraced£147,820Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
11 Feb 201618 B18 5SGTerraced£95,000
1 Oct 201514 B18 5SGTerraced£70,000
11 Jul 200824 B18 5SGTerraced£103,000
25 Mar 200814 B18 5SGTerraced£72,500
6 Mar 20082 B18 5SGTerraced£122,000
22 Jun 20078 B18 5SGTerraced£109,000
20 Oct 200625 B18 5SGSemi-detached£95,500
22 Jul 200523 B18 5SGTerraced£85,000
6 Jan 20049 B18 5SGTerraced£72,000
26 Sep 20036 B18 5SGTerraced£81,500
11 Mar 200310 B18 5SGTerraced£45,000
10 May 200218 B18 5SGSemi-detached£35,000
8 Mar 200225 B18 5SGSemi-detached£42,500
8 Feb 20022 B18 5SGTerraced£43,000
30 Jul 199922 B18 5SGTerraced£35,500
18 Jun 19992 B18 5SGTerraced£38,000
15 Aug 19976 B18 5SGTerraced£33,000
11 Oct 199615 B18 5SGTerraced£39,000

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 April 2014 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 84 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (10); House, end-terrace (7). Built: 1967-1975 (9); 1950-1966 (7); 1930-1949 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (private) (7); owner-occupied (6); rented (social) (4).

Each home's certificates and sales (9 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 (96% of about 850 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

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 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: 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 24 addresses are between 143 m and 144 m above sea level (143 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
B18 5SG100%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 stationsJewellery Quarter 446,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1.1 miles)
The Hawthorns 334,000 journeys in 2024–252.2 km (1.3 miles)
Smethwick Rolfe Street 404,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Underground, metro or tramWinson Green Outer Circle (West Midlands Metro)500 m (0.3 miles)
Soho Benson Road (West Midlands Metro)510 m (0.3 miles)
Handsworth Booth Street (West Midlands Metro)1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 32 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Winson Green Prison90 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth3.9 km (2.4 miles)
Car parksQ-Park Birmingham City Hospital870 m (0.5 miles)
EV charging points18 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest City - Sheldon Block GeniePoint690 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX13.6 km (8.5 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 surgeries16 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Cavendish Medical Practice760 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies12 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Summerfield Pharmacy760 m (0.5 miles)
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Dept.230 m
HospitalBirmingham City Hospital740 m (0.5 miles)
Police stationSummerfield Police Station1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone310 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 1.1 ha280 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Unnamed 3.2 ha750 m (0.5 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 270 m²300 m
Playing field3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.1 ha210 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 960 m²280 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 6.6 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Bishop Latimer Memorial Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 320 m north-west. 16 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 3 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Bishop Latimer Memorial Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*320 m north-west
Summerfield Community Centre and Job Preparation UnitListed building, Grade II*820 m (0.5 miles) south
Remains of the Boulton and Watt Soho foundry and mint, Birmingham Canal, SmethwickScheduled monument1 km (0.6 miles) west
Soho Foundry Former Boulton and Watt Foundry Pattern Stores and Erecting ShopsListed building, Grade II*1 km (0.6 miles) west
Key Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.6 km (1 mile) east
Warstone Lane CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.7 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Smethwick Engine HouseScheduled monument1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Soho LoopLake or reservoir1 km (0.6 miles) south-east
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) south
Smethwick Hall PoolLake or reservoir3 km (1.9 miles) west
Thimblemill PoolLake or reservoir3.1 km (1.9 miles) south-west
Halfmoon PlantationWood3.6 km (2.3 miles) north-east
Bromford StopIsland4.9 km (3 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)15.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)12.74015

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 5960
Under 551824

6 of the street's 24 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
Oasis Academy FoundryPrimary3–11280 m Outstanding (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Windsor Olympus AcademySecondary11–16510 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Oasis Academy BensonPrimary3–11590 m (0.4 miles) Inadequate (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
James Watt Primary SchoolPrimary3–11620 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Summerfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11660 m (0.4 miles) Requires improvement (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
Oasis Academy BoultonPrimary3–11780 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Patrick and St Edmund's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Michael's CofE Primary Academy, Handsworth Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Barford Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Nishkam Primary School Birmingham SikhPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Apr 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for BoysSecondary11–181.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
City Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)

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
Parms News B18 5SJRetailers - other130 m5 Very good8 Aug 2013
New Pop Eyes Ltd B18 4RHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen140 m2 Improvement necessary22 Jul 2026
P.M.C Meat B18 4RERetailers - other180 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Oct 2010
Golden Chippy B18 4RETakeaway/sandwich shop180 mUnknown24 Aug 2026
Aramark Staff and Visitor Canteen B18 4ASRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good17 May 2020
Aramark Prison Main Kitchen B18 4ASHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises230 m2 Improvement necessary28 Nov 2025
Aramark @ HMP Birmingham Windrush We B18 4ASRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen230 m5 Very good14 Sep 2026
Waj's News B18 4PURetailers - other240 mExempt
G.N DESI GHEE BISCUITS LTD B18 4NROther catering premises280 mAwaiting inspection
Express Food Services B18 4NRManufacturers/packers290 m5 Very good9 Jul 2026
Junction express B18 4RBRetailers - other290 mAwaiting inspection
SMASH BURGER B18 4NDMobile caterer300 mAwaiting inspection
AYD GRILL N GO B18 4NDMobile caterer300 mAwaiting inspection
M K Foodstore B18 4LSRetailers - other340 m1 Major improvement necessary29 Apr 2026
Beeton Grange Care Centre B18 4QDHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises360 m3 Generally satisfactory26 Jan 2026

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.

170 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences88
Criminal damage and arson20
Vehicle crime14
Burglary10
Anti-social behaviour8
Public order8
Other theft8
Possession of weapons3
Robbery3
Other crime3
Shoplifting2
Drugs2
Theft from the person1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Markby Road (58); On or near Kirby Road (40); On or near Preston Road (29); On or near Rectory Grove (19); On or near Victor Road (17).

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: 460 residents in 167 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 age3240
Children under 1523%17%
Aged 65 and over13%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)32%61%
Owned outright21%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented37%17%
Private rented30%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work34%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)14%6%
Retired (of adults)13%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)9%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)11%32%
Travel to work by car or van50%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram3%4%
By any public transport, including bus26%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)74%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)22%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)74%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all13%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.

  • B18 5SG: 24 addresses of 29 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Victor Road · Lodge Road · Preston Road · Kirby Road · Beaumont Gardens · Markby Road · Willes Road · Latimer Place · Meredith Pool Close · Franklin Street · Spring Grove Gardens · Great Western Close

All the streets in B18 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.