Romulus Close Birmingham

31 addresses across 2 postcodes (B20), about 240 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2705173.

  • Sales: 35 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £80,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 22 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 14, D: 6, E: 1).
  • Flood: 6 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Birmingham costs £2,363 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Perry Barr, about 1 km (0.6 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 230 m away, and Handsworth Park (27 hectares) is about 750 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 105 to 107 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 31 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is The Slieve Surgery, about 770 m (0.5 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 610 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 60% of households owned their home and 36% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 44 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
20251£80,000£80,000£80,000
20222£180,556£161,111£200,000
20192£143,500£140,000£147,000
20152£133,000£116,000£150,000
20141£120,000£120,000£120,000
20132£114,250£112,000£116,500
20111£128,000£128,000£128,000
20081£137,500£137,500£137,500
20073£120,000£68,000£134,500
20061£120,000£120,000£120,000
20042£113,500£100,000£127,000
20032£73,500£70,500£76,500
Most recent sales (35)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
16 Apr 20257 B20 2ARFlat or maisonette£80,000Leasehold.
18 Nov 202216 B20 2ARTerraced£200,000
19 Jan 20228 B20 2ARTerraced£161,111
22 Aug 201924 B20 2ARTerraced£140,000
19 Feb 201929 B20 2ARTerraced£147,000
5 Nov 20154 B20 2ARTerraced£116,000
23 Jul 20152 B20 2ARTerraced£150,000
14 May 201518 B20 2ARTerraced£105,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Oct 201420 B20 2ARTerraced£120,000
22 Oct 201326 B20 2ARTerraced£116,500
17 Jul 201329 B20 2ARTerraced£112,000
24 Oct 20112 B20 2ARTerraced£128,000
29 Feb 200816 B20 2ARTerraced£137,500
7 Nov 20078 B20 2ARTerraced£134,500
20 Feb 200729 B20 2ARTerraced£120,000
7 Feb 20077 B20 2ARFlat or maisonette£68,000Leasehold.
8 Dec 200631 B20 2ARTerraced£120,000
29 Oct 20046 B20 2ARTerraced£127,000Leasehold.
23 Jan 200433 B20 2ARSemi-detached£100,000
8 Aug 200318 B20 2ARTerraced£76,500
9 Jul 200329 B20 2ARTerraced£70,500
25 Apr 20026 B20 2ARTerraced£76,500Leasehold.
21 Dec 200131 B20 2ARTerraced£66,000
18 Dec 200114 B20 2ARTerraced£42,000
21 Sep 20018 B20 2ARTerraced£69,000
28 Feb 200112 B20 2ARSemi-detached£52,000
24 Nov 200018 B20 2ARTerraced£52,000
3 Mar 20002 B20 2ARTerraced£58,500
31 Jul 199816 B20 2ARTerraced£42,000
21 Nov 199720 B20 2ARTerraced£45,500
27 Jun 19978 B20 2ARTerraced£47,950
14 Mar 19972 B20 2ARTerraced£55,000
6 Dec 19966 B20 2ARTerraced£51,000
6 Dec 19966 B20 2ARTerraced£51,000Leasehold.
14 Mar 19962 B20 2ARTerraced£55,000Leasehold.

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 March 2011 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

22 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (7); Flat (7); House, end-terrace (6). Built: 1976-1982 (14); 1967-1975 (5); 1983-1990 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (10); rented (social) (5); rented (private) (5).

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 (29% of about 1,230 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, 4 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 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 on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
B20 2ARnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B20 2ATnot in 2 or 3 4 / 2 / 3 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 31 addresses are between 105 m and 107 m above sea level (106 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
B20 2AR100%100%100%0%
B20 2AT100%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 stationsPerry Barr 185,000 journeys in 2024–251 km (0.6 miles)
Hamstead (Birmingham) 231,000 journeys in 2024–251.7 km (1 mile)
Witton (West Midlands) 342,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 25 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Romilly Avenue Handsworth Wood230 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth5.1 km (3.2 miles)
Car parksBaker Street Car Park2 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points5 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest ubitricity1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX13.5 km (8.4 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest The Slieve Surgery770 m (0.5 miles)
Pharmacies11 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wards Chemists630 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalBirmingham Children's Hospital2.9 km (1.8 miles)
Police stationWest Midlands Police - Perry Barr Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone890 m (0.6 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 garden2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,420 m²230 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Handsworth Park 27 ha750 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 820 m²230 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 4.8 ha40 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lea Hall Allotments 6,750 m²320 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 2 parks and gardens, 28 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St Mary, a listed building (Grade II*), 880 m (0.5 miles) south. 13 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 2 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*880 m (0.5 miles) south
The AnchorageListed building, Grade II*930 m (0.6 miles) west
Handsworth Park (Formerly Victoria Park)Registered park or garden, Grade II1.2 km (0.7 miles) south-west
Perry BridgeScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Aston HallRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.6 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Halfmoon PlantationWood690 m (0.4 miles) north
Perry ReservoirLake or reservoir1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Garden GroveWood2 km (1.3 miles) north-west
Perry WoodWood2.7 km (1.7 miles) north
Forge Mill LakeLake or reservoir2.9 km (1.8 miles) north-west
Witton LakesLake or reservoir3.3 km (2 miles) 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)14.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)12.54015

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 5914
Under 553027

1 of the street's 31 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 4 from railways, 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
Cherry Orchard Primary SchoolPrimary3–11390 m Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Teresa's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11490 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Marys C of E Primary and Nursery, Academy, Handsworth Church of EnglandPrimary3–11820 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
Holy Trinity CE Primary Academy (Handsworth) Church of EnglandPrimary4–11830 m (0.5 miles) Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Clare's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11930 m (0.6 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework)
King Edward VI Handsworth Wood Girls' AcademySecondary11–181 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Westminster Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
Canterbury Cross Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection
Dorrington AcademyPrimary3–111.4 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Eden Boys' School, Birmingham MuslimSecondary11–181.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Sacred Heart Catholic School Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.4 km (0.9 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: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Heathfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 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
Sweet Decree B20 2AHOther catering premises260 mAwaiting inspection
Lea Hall Allotments And Institute Ltd B20 2APRetailers - other280 m5 Very good6 Mar 2014
Bek's Meat ltd B20 2ANOther catering premises320 m5 Very good7 Jul 2026
Calthorpe Arms B20 2DZPub/bar/nightclub410 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good16 Feb 2026
SS CRAVING B20 2ASOther catering premises410 m (0.3 miles)Awaiting inspection
Cherry Orchard Primary School B20 2LBSchool/college/university460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good9 Sep 2026
Building Blocks Nursery Ltd B20 2LBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good14 May 2025
Inspired Children's Club B20 2LBHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises460 m (0.3 miles)1 Major improvement necessary24 Sep 2025
Tony'S Catering and Sandwich B20 2ABMobile caterer490 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good12 Nov 2009

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.

44 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences29
Burglary6
Criminal damage and arson3
Vehicle crime2
Other crime2
Public order1
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Crown Green Close (13); On or near Tyber Drive (10); On or near Wood Lane (9); On or near Romulus Close (8); On or near Romilly Avenue (4).

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: 609 residents in 212 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3440
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)60%61%
Owned outright29%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented28%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work55%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)12%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)3%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)30%32%
Travel to work by car or van53%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus11%8%
On foot or by bicycle4%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)77%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away10%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)36%34%
No qualifications18%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)79%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 4 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

Tyber Drive · Lea Hall Green · Romilly Avenue · Crown Green Close · Wood Lane · Larchfield Close · Elmwood Gardens · Jack Footer Close · Beachburn Way · Washington Drive · Bramley Drive · Denewood Avenue

All the streets in B20 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.