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Sydney Road Smethwick, Sandwell

70 addresses across 2 postcodes (B67), about 340 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 33647160.

  • Sales: 55 recorded sales since 1995; in 2023 the median was £222,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 44 homes have an energy certificate (C: 5, D: 32, E: 7).
  • 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 B; Band D in Sandwell costs £2,244 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Smethwick Rolfe Street, about 2 km (1.3 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Warley Park, is about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 12.9 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 177 to 191 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 1 of its 70 addresses is modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Bearwood Medical Centre, about 580 m (0.4 miles) away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 730 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 66% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 64 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
20231£222,500£222,500£222,500
20222£147,500£120,000£175,000
20211£199,950£199,950£199,950
20181£140,000£140,000£140,000
20166£132,225£108,000£159,950
20151£124,000£124,000£124,000
20142£122,475£120,000£124,950
20132£94,000£48,000£140,000
20121£120,000£120,000£120,000
20111£135,000£135,000£135,000
20101£125,000£125,000£125,000
20091£100,000£100,000£100,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 55)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
24 Oct 202551 B67 5QGSemi-detached£227,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
10 Mar 202336 B67 5QQSemi-detached£222,500
5 Apr 202260 B67 5QGTerraced£120,000
21 Feb 202235 B67 5QGSemi-detached£175,000
15 Oct 202123 B67 5QQSemi-detached£199,950
19 Mar 202130 B67 5QQSemi-detached£165,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Sep 2020BAYLISS GARAGES B67 5QQOther£150,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Aug 201820 B67 5QQSemi-detached£140,000
14 Dec 201643 B67 5QGSemi-detached£147,000
28 Sep 20167 B67 5QQSemi-detached£159,950
5 Aug 201649 B67 5QGSemi-detached£117,000
11 Jul 201614 B67 5QQTerraced£130,450
3 May 201649 B67 5QGSemi-detached£108,000
31 Mar 201624 B67 5QQTerraced£134,000
6 Feb 201524 B67 5QQTerraced£124,000
2 Jun 20142 B67 5QQTerraced£120,000
14 Feb 201451 B67 5QGSemi-detached£124,950
9 Dec 201311A B67 5QQSemi-detached£48,000
19 Aug 20135 B67 5QQSemi-detached£140,000
28 Jun 201253 B67 5QGSemi-detached£120,000
31 Aug 20119 B67 5QQSemi-detached£135,000
25 Jun 20109 B67 5QQSemi-detached£125,000
27 Apr 200920 B67 5QQSemi-detached£100,000
16 Nov 200740 B67 5QQSemi-detached£142,500
31 Jul 200715 B67 5QQSemi-detached£124,995
15 Jun 20072 B67 5QQSemi-detached£107,000
14 Dec 200651 B67 5QGSemi-detached£126,000
21 Jul 200623 B67 5QQSemi-detached£120,000
7 Jul 200638 B67 5QQSemi-detached£75,000
25 May 200634 B67 5QQSemi-detached£130,000
27 Apr 20068 B67 5QQSemi-detached£110,000
17 Mar 200614 B67 5QQTerraced£107,500
22 Dec 200517 B67 5QQSemi-detached£120,000
14 Dec 200556 B67 5QGSemi-detached£118,000
21 Nov 200544 B67 5QGSemi-detached£120,000
26 Aug 200536 B67 5QQSemi-detached£137,000
25 Jul 20053 B67 5QQSemi-detached£125,000
27 May 200527 B67 5QQSemi-detached£118,750
30 Jul 200421 B67 5QQSemi-detached£115,000
27 Nov 200360 B67 5QGTerraced£93,000
3 Jun 200333 B67 5QGSemi-detached£41,500
30 Jan 20038 B67 5QQSemi-detached£76,500
21 Oct 200231 B67 5QGSemi-detached£86,500
5 Jul 200216 B67 5QQTerraced£76,500
30 May 200224 B67 5QQSemi-detached£78,000
31 Aug 20018 B67 5QQSemi-detached£48,500
26 Feb 20013 B67 5QQSemi-detached£50,500
29 Jan 200178 B67 5QGTerraced£67,000
26 Nov 199920 B67 5QQSemi-detached£43,455
12 Oct 199819 B67 5QQSemi-detached£17,200

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

44 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 72 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (27); House, mid-terrace (11); House, end-terrace (6). Built: 1930-1949 (28); 1900-1929 (15); 1950-1966 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (21); rented (social) (14); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (23 addresses)

Council tax

What each band costs in Sandwell in 2026-27: Band D £2,244 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,496£1,746£1,995£2,244£2,743£3,242£3,741£4,489

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band B (77% of about 520 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): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • 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 0 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
B67 5QQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B67 5QGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 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 70 addresses are between 177 m and 191 m above sea level (184 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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
B67 5QG100%100%100%0%
B67 5QQ100%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 stationsSmethwick Rolfe Street 404,000 journeys in 2024–252 km (1.3 miles)
Langley Green 161,000 journeys in 2024–252.3 km (1.4 miles)
Smethwick Galton Bridge 698,000 journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.6 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 60 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Lincoln Road Warley130 m
Bus or coach stationWest Bromwich Bus Station4.3 km (2.7 miles)
Car parksBarker Street Car Park2.1 km (1.3 miles)
EV charging points12 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Wenea530 m (0.3 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX16.1 km (10 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Bearwood Medical Centre580 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies9 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boots500 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shire Dentist500 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalMidland Metropolitan University Hospital2.5 km (1.6 miles)
Police stationSmethwick Police Station1.9 km (1.2 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone400 m (0.2 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Warley Park 25 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2,680 m²640 m (0.4 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 6.5 ha140 m
Allotments3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,310 m²150 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 25 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Warley Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 790 m (0.5 miles) south. 7 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Warley ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II790 m (0.5 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Thimblemill PoolLake or reservoir330 m north-east
Warley WoodsWood790 m (0.5 miles) south-west
Smethwick Hall PoolLake or reservoir1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Bromford StopIsland3.6 km (2.2 miles) north-west
Woodgate ValleyValley3.7 km (2.3 miles) south
Mucklow HillHill4.2 km (2.6 miles) south-west

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)12.94010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.8205
Particles (PM10)12.14015

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 5910
Under 556970

1 of the street's 70 addresses is 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 Sandwell: see them on the Sandwell 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
Abbey Infant SchoolPrimary3–7180 m No published inspection
Abbey Junior SchoolPrimary7–11330 m No published inspection
Annie Lennard Primary SchoolPrimary3–11350 m No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11440 m (0.3 miles) 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
Uplands Manor Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bearwood Primary SchoolPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection
Bristnall Hall AcademySecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Shireland Collegiate AcademySecondary11–191.2 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Oct 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good
Shireland Technology PrimaryPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Bleakhouse Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Moat Farm Junior SchoolPrimary7–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Strong standard; Achievement: Strong standard; Attendance and behaviour: Exceptional; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met
Moat Farm Infant SchoolPrimary2–71.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): 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: Strong standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met

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
The Cat's Pyjamas Bar B67 5QFMobile caterer140 m5 Very good26 Apr 2023
Limoutec Limited B67 5PYOther catering premises220 mAwaiting inspection
V & G Store B67 5PPRetailers - other270 m4 Good24 Jan 2025
Educaterers Ltd @ Abbey Infant School B67 5LRSchool/college/university270 mAwaiting inspection
Mario's Catch B67 5PPTakeaway/sandwich shop280 m5 Very good4 Sep 2024
SIPS Education @ Annie Lennard Infant School B67 6LESchool/college/university370 m5 Very good21 Apr 2023
Thimblemill chippy B67 5RGOther catering premises380 m5 Very good8 Sep 2025
Thimblemill Stores B67 5RGRetailers - other390 m5 Very good6 Sep 2021
Custard & Creams B67 5RGTakeaway/sandwich shop390 m5 Very good16 Apr 2025
Micheals News B67 5QYRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good25 Jul 2019
Oriental Delight B67 5RARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen410 m (0.3 miles)4 Good18 Mar 2026
Zaalsha B67 5RDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen420 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good11 Sep 2025
Post Office - Kang News B67 5RARetailers - other420 m (0.3 miles)4 Good11 Jan 2020
Abbey Fish Bar B67 5RDRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)4 Good14 Sep 2026
Global Foods (Birmingham) Limited B67 5RDRetailers - other450 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good13 Feb 2024

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.

64 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences27
Vehicle crime9
Other theft6
Criminal damage and arson6
Anti-social behaviour5
Public order4
Burglary3
Drugs2
Shoplifting1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Maurice Road (17); On or near Lincoln Road (15); On or near Bowling Green Drive (11); On or near Rathbone Road (9); On or near Hamilton Road (3).

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: 733 residents in 263 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 age3640
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)66%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented16%17%
Private rented18%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work57%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)11%6%
Retired (of adults)16%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)26%32%
Travel to work by car or van55%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram1%4%
By any public transport, including bus8%8%
On foot or by bicycle8%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)78%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications23%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 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

  • Energy certificates New energy certificate: band C, house, mid-terrace (lodged 21 October 2026) found 2 November 2026

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

Lincoln Road · Hamilton Road · Bowling Green Drive · Norman Road · Alexander Road · Rathbone Road · Maurice Road · Pargeter Road · Woodbourne Road · Slatch House Road · Katherine Road · Corn Mill Close

All the streets in B67 and across Sandwell.

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.