Selcombe Way Birmingham

64 addresses across 1 postcode (B38), about 290 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2701072.

  • Sales: 32 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £230,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Birmingham cost £234,867 in August 2026 (+1.5% on a year); private rents averaged £1,106 a month.
  • Energy: 45 homes have an energy certificate (B: 5, C: 29, D: 10, E: 1).
  • 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.
  • 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 Kings Norton, about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 230 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 161 to 173 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 16 of its 64 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hawkesley Medical Practice, about 530 m (0.3 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 260 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 34% of households owned their home and 25% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 97 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 of them fatal or serious; 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
20261£230,000£230,000£230,000
20221£135,000£135,000£135,000
20212£114,700£81,400£148,000
20201£160,000£160,000£160,000
20182£113,000£100,000£126,000
20172£126,500£110,000£143,000
20141£78,000£78,000£78,000
20112£89,000£78,000£100,000
20101£87,500£87,500£87,500
20082£120,500£118,000£123,000
20071£127,500£127,500£127,500
20062£110,500£105,000£116,000
All 32 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Jun 20111 B38 9RJTerraced£100,000
26 Jul 20212 B38 9RJSemi-detached£81,400
21 Dec 20075 B38 9RJTerraced£127,500
13 Jul 20068 B38 9RJTerraced£116,000
26 Nov 20209 B38 9RJTerraced£155,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Jun 20189 B38 9RJTerraced£126,000
11 Aug 201718 B38 9RJSemi-detached£143,000
1 Sep 200818 B38 9RJSemi-detached£118,000
27 Jan 199518 B38 9RJSemi-detached£37,500
15 Apr 201130 B38 9RJTerraced£78,000
24 Mar 200630 B38 9RJTerraced£105,000
18 Nov 200430 B38 9RJTerraced£100,000
29 Sep 202132 B38 9RJTerraced£148,000
22 Feb 200232 B38 9RJTerraced£52,000
10 Jul 202636 B38 9RJTerraced£230,000
17 Jul 202036 B38 9RJTerraced£160,000
5 Aug 200542 B38 9RJTerraced£90,000
30 May 200845 B38 9RJTerraced£123,000
22 Apr 200545 B38 9RJTerraced£99,000
14 Jun 200445 B38 9RJTerraced£79,950
30 Nov 200145 B38 9RJTerraced£49,950
15 Mar 199645 B38 9RJTerraced£37,500
19 May 201448 B38 9RJTerraced£78,000
10 Dec 201048 B38 9RJTerraced£87,500
7 Feb 202250 B38 9RJTerraced£135,000
4 May 201850 B38 9RJTerraced£100,000
25 May 200550 B38 9RJTerraced£88,000
27 Oct 202351 B38 9RJTerraced£191,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
7 Jun 201955 B38 9RJTerraced£142,500Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 May 201961 B38 9RJTerraced£148,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Oct 200461 B38 9RJTerraced£102,000
20 Sep 201762 B38 9RJTerraced£110,000

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

45 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (20); House, end-terrace (13); Flat (7). Built: 1976-1982 (29); 1967-1975 (8); 2022 (4). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (26); owner-occupied (9); rented (private) (3).

Each home's certificates and sales (45 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 10,819 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 2,731 kWh of electricity, 17% less than the district's 3,303 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the 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 B38.

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 A (46% of about 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 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

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

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

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

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

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.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre 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

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

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 here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square 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 64 addresses are between 161 m and 173 m above sea level (168 m on average); the ground rises about 13 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
B38 9RJ100%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 stationsKings Norton 934,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Northfield 643,000 journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Longbridge 892,000 journeys in 2024–253.5 km (2.2 miles)
Bus stops9 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 30 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Selcombe Way Hawkesley30 m
Bus or coach stationAlvechurch - Red Lion PH5 km (3.1 miles)
Car parksMonster Airport Parking2.8 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging pointsInstaVolt Charging Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX14.1 km (8.7 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hawkesley Medical Practice Good Oct 2020530 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Browns Pharmacy390 m
NHS dentists4 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hawkesley Health Centre530 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalWest Heath Hospital1.7 km (1 mile)
Care homes9 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Primrose Hill Farm Good Jan 2023380 m
Police stationWest Mercia Police3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Cash machinesNews Plus, Kings Norton Cashzone1.4 km (0.9 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 Unnamed 4.6 ha230 m
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 10 m²30 m
Playing fieldWast Hills Playing Fields 21 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsBells Sports Allotments 1.5 ha1.2 km (0.8 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 13 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Primrose Hill Farmhouse, a listed building (Grade II*), 480 m (0.3 miles) north. 6 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Primrose Hill FarmhouseListed building, Grade II*480 m (0.3 miles) north
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Red HillHill670 m (0.4 miles) south-west
Gay HillHill810 m (0.5 miles) east
Wast HillHill1.4 km (0.9 miles) south-west
Merecroft PoolLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) north
High HillHill1.7 km (1 mile) south-west
King's WoodWood2.1 km (1.3 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)10.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.2205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

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
55 to 59160
Under 554864

16 of the street's 64 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), 6 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
Ark Kings AcademyAll-through3–18470 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 69% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 79% in 2024 and 80% in 2023)
GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 39.9 (36.5 in 2025 and 35.8 in 2024); 28% grade 5+ in English and maths
Hawkesley Church Primary Academy Church of England/MethodistPrimary2–11530 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jan 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: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 40% in 2024 and 64% in 2023)
St Paul's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11840 m (0.5 miles) Report card (Feb 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 15% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Fairway Primary AcademyPrimary4–111.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Jul 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; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 69% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 43% in 2023)
Kings Norton Primary SchoolPrimary5–111.6 km (1 mile) 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: Outstanding 59% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
West Heath Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 64% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Broadmeadow Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection None published

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

3 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 1.1 km (0.7 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
The Willows Day Nursery B38 8PS Full day care 88 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Conifers Day Nursery KN Limited B38 9HP Full day care 56 Outstanding (Apr 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Westhill House Day Nursery B38 8DR Full day care 80 Good (Nov 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.2 km (0.8 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 6 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
Communitea Too Cafe B38 9RNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m5 Very good14 Oct 2026
Roll and Spice B38 9RLOther catering premises140 mAwaiting inspection
Care Through The Millennium B38 9QWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good18 May 2020
Primrose Hill Farm B38 9QWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises380 m5 Very good30 Jul 2009
Buywise Express B38 9QWRetailers - other380 m5 Very good21 Sep 2016
W M Browns Pharmacy B38 9TURetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)Exempt
Welcome Fish Bar B38 9TUTakeaway/sandwich shop410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good27 Oct 2025
Kings Norton Supermarket B38 9TURetailers - other410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good20 Nov 2019
Ark Kings Academy B38 9DESchool/college/university480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good5 Feb 2026
Birmingham Children's Trust B38 9RUHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises480 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good7 Oct 2025

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.

97 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences54
Criminal damage and arson9
Anti-social behaviour8
Public order8
Other theft6
Vehicle crime5
Possession of weapons2
Burglary2
Robbery2
Drugs1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Lynfield Close (24); On or near Hole Farm Way (21); On or near Wast Hill Grove (16); On or near Selcombe Way (11); On or near Grange Rise (10).

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, 1 serious and 1 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a motorcyclist. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202200
202300
202400
202511
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
16 Jun 2025 19:00 Serious 2 people: 2 motorcyclists Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
30 Mar 2021 18:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 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

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

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 Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 258 residents in 116 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 age3940
Children under 1526%17%
Aged 65 and over21%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)34%61%
Owned outright15%33%
Shared ownership2%1%
Social rented52%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work39%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)16%6%
Retired (of adults)26%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)10%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)18%32%
Travel to work by car or van61%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus16%8%
On foot or by bicycle1%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)25%34%
No qualifications30%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)96%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all3%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

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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.

  • B38 9RJ: 64 addresses of 67 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Longdales Road · Edgewood Road · Lynfield Close · Grange Rise · Flax Gardens · Marjoram Close · Rosebay Avenue · Wast Hill Grove · Reedmace Close · Green Lane Walk · Cornerway · Harebell Gardens

All the streets in B38 and across Birmingham.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.