Villa Road Birmingham

162 addresses across 8 postcodes (B19,B21), about 550 m (0.3 miles) long, classed as a b road. USRN 2702442.

  • Sales: 48 recorded sales since 1995; in 2022 the median was £240,000 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: 57 homes have an energy certificate (C: 25, D: 20, E: 9, G: 3).
  • Flood: 2 addresses on its postcodes are in areas 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.
  • Landfill: 1 historic landfill site within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, City Waste Plc's Landfill Site, is 330 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 15 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 158 times (149 hours) in 2025.
  • Energy projects: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Kelvin Energy Recovery Facility, is 5 km (3.1 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A41, carries 17,382 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • 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 60% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Jewellery Quarter, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 310 m away, and Handsworth Park (27 hectares) is about 740 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.2 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 131 to 138 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 154 of its 162 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Hamstead Road Surgery, about 250 m away, with 10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,320 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 17% of households owned their home and 21% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 538 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: 76 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 10 of them fatal or serious; 28 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
20221£240,000£240,000£240,000
20201£215,000£215,000£215,000
20181£140,000£140,000£140,000
20171£130,000£130,000£130,000
20141£84,000£84,000£84,000
20111£80,000£80,000£80,000
20082£100,000£100,000£100,000
20072£165,000£145,000£185,000
20063£210,000£50,000£210,000
20051£75,000£75,000£75,000
20043£95,000£75,000£152,500
20033£95,000£69,000£132,000
All 48 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
2 Aug 200143 B19 1BHTerraced£52,000
17 Dec 200345 B19 1BHTerraced£132,000
13 Sep 200147 B19 1BHTerraced£65,000
25 Mar 201451 B19 1BHTerraced£84,000
21 Mar 202554 B19 1BLTerraced£300,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jun 202354 B19 1BLTerraced£450,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
17 Nov 202154 B19 1BLOther£450,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
6 Apr 201754 B19 1BLDetached£200,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Feb 200354 B19 1BLDetached£95,000
28 Mar 200756 B19 1BLDetached£145,000
23 Oct 202466 B19 1BLOther£300,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Mar 202573 B19 1NHTerraced£225,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
29 Apr 202073 B19 1NHTerraced£215,000
31 Aug 200073 B19 1NHTerraced£32,500
4 Apr 199673 B19 1NHTerraced£65,000
11 Jan 200675 B19 1NHTerraced£50,000
16 Mar 200777 B19 1NHTerraced£185,000
6 Jan 200477 B19 1NHTerraced£75,000
12 Feb 202679 B19 1NHSemi-detached£290,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Jul 200279 B19 1NHSemi-detached£75,000
4 Jan 200279 B19 1NHSemi-detached£69,000
14 Aug 199879 B19 1NHSemi-detached£45,000
27 Apr 200681 - 83 B19 1NHTerraced£210,000
12 Dec 201683 B19 1NHOther£225,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
27 Apr 200683 B19 1NHTerraced£210,000
8 Jul 200483 B19 1NHTerraced£152,500
1 Nov 202285 B19 1NHFlat or maisonette£240,000Leasehold.
23 Dec 200885 B19 1NHFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold.
23 Dec 200887 B19 1NHFlat or maisonette£100,000Leasehold.
16 Mar 200087 B19 1NHTerraced£61,000
8 May 199787 B19 1NHTerraced£65,000
1 Jul 199792 B19 1NNTerraced£40,000
11 Nov 200593 B19 1NHTerraced£75,000
18 Nov 200493 B19 1NHTerraced£95,000
17 Feb 200393 B19 1NHTerraced£69,000
21 Sep 200197 B19 1NHTerraced£20,000
17 Jan 199598 B19 1NNTerraced£20,000
15 Dec 200099 B19 1NHTerraced£27,000
28 Apr 200099 B19 1NHTerraced£19,000
26 Nov 1999102 B19 1NNTerraced£21,000
5 Apr 2011103 B19 1NHTerraced£80,000
11 May 1998107 B19 1NHTerraced£26,000
4 Mar 2026109 B19 1NHTerraced£220,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Dec 2018109 B19 1NHTerraced£140,000
15 Dec 2000109 B19 1NHTerraced£24,000
15 Feb 2017111 B19 1NHTerraced£130,000
28 Jul 2023113 B19 1NHOther£110,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Jul 2002115 B19 1NHTerraced£25,000

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 September 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

57 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 66 m². Most common: Flat (36); House, mid-terrace (19); Maisonette, end-terrace (1). Built: 1900-1929 (20); 1991-1995 (9); 1930-1949 (7). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (25); rented (private) (23); owner-occupied (6).

Each home's certificates and sales (57 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 12,049 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 3,355 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 85% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
B19 1NH20 6 Economy 73,930 kWh 105,378 kWh
B19 1NN183,333 kWh 1810,464 kWh
B19 1BL142,061 kWh 148,280 kWh
B19 1BH73,498 kWh 1114,900 kWh
B19 1BP371,448 kWh 388,373 kWh
B19 1HA272,923 kWh 1314,035 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is B19.

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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (67% of about 1,790 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 3 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: yes, Lozells and Soho Hill Conservation Area (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 10.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): CITY WIDE HMO.
  • Tree preservation orders: in a protected area: THE BIRMINGHAM (1 - 19 SOHO ROAD & 1 PIERS ROAD, LOZELLS) TPO 2011.
  • Green belt: no.

Listed buildings

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

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Kelvin Energy Recovery Facility Sandwell DC/17/61177 Energy from waste (incinerator) 47 MW Being built Nov 2021 5 km (3.1 miles)
Kelvin Energy Recovery Facility Sandwell DC/17/61177 Energy from waste (incinerator) 47 MW Being built Nov 2021 5 km (3.1 miles)

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

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 11 November 2026 to 13 November 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Remedial works, two-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 22 February 2027: SEVERN TRENT WATER, Utility repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major works)

Finished in the last three months

  • 24 September 2026 to 25 September 2026: BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 3 September 2026 to 4 September 2026: BIRMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL, Highway improvement works, multi-way signals, on the carriageway (minor works)

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

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 1 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
B19 1NHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B19 1NNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 0 unlikely
B19 1BLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B19 1BHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B19 1APnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B19 1BPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
B19 1HAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
B21 9SNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

15 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 158 times, for 149 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Hockley Brook, Unnamed Pond in Victoria Park (Boating Lake).

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Handsworth - Piers Road Cso Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook 10 13 220 m
All Saints Hospital 2 Cso Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook 1 1 320 m
Lodge Road No.1 (Musgrave) Cso Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook 48 38 320 m
All Saints Hospital 1 Cso Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook 1 0 320 m
Winson Green - Lodge Rd/Talbot St (Cso) Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook 5 0 320 m
Handsworth - Nineveh Road 1 Cso Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook 7 5 530 m (0.3 miles)
Handsworth - Nineveh Road 2 Cso Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook 13 16 530 m (0.3 miles)
Handsworth - 102 Bacchus Road Cso Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook 24 17 530 m (0.3 miles)

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

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre on the street is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

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

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

1 historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 330 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
City Waste Plc's Landfill Site Park Road, Hockley, Birmingham, West Midlands 1994 to 1995 Inert; gas control on site 330 m

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

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 162 addresses are between 131 m and 138 m above sea level (133 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.

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

Broadband

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

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
B19 1AP95%95%95%0%
B19 1BH100%100%100%0%
B19 1BL100%100%100%0%
B19 1BP100%100%100%0%
B19 1HA100%60%60%0%
B19 1NH100%100%97%0%
B19 1NN100%100%100%0%
B21 9SN85%85%85%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 2024–251.5 km (0.9 miles)
Perry Barr 185,000 journeys in 2024–251.9 km (1.2 miles)
Birmingham Snow Hill 3.2 million journeys in 2024–252.5 km (1.5 miles)
Underground, metro or tramSoho Benson Road (West Midlands Metro)1.2 km (0.7 miles)
Jewellery Quarter (West Midlands Metro)1.5 km (0.9 miles)
Winson Green Outer Circle (West Midlands Metro)1.5 km (1 mile)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Villa Cross Lozells90 m
Bus or coach stationBirmingham Coach Station Digbeth3.6 km (2.2 miles)
Car parksBaker Street Car Park1.1 km (0.7 miles)
EV charging points9 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Shell Recharge Charging Station280 m
Airport with scheduled flightsBirmingham Airport BHX12.7 km (7.9 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 surgeries10 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hamstead Road Surgery Requires improvement Aug 2023250 m
Pharmacies20 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Healthstop Pharmacy250 m
NHS dentists13 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery510 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalBirmingham Children's Hospital1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Care homes12 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Radnor House Good Apr 2019170 m
Police stationThornhill Road Police Station770 m (0.5 miles)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM720 m (0.4 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 2.4 ha310 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Handsworth Park 27 ha740 m (0.5 miles)
Play area5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 920 m²340 m
Playing fieldUnnamed 1.3 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gibson Road Allotments 1,440 m²650 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 35 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is King Edward VI Handsworth School for Girls with boundary gates, railings and piers, a listed building (Grade II*), 420 m (0.3 miles) west. 53 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
King Edward VI Handsworth School for Girls with boundary gates, railings and piersListed building, Grade II*420 m (0.3 miles) west
Soho HouseListed building, Grade II*520 m (0.3 miles) south-west
Convent of Our Lady of MercyListed building, Grade II*530 m (0.3 miles) south
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*910 m (0.6 miles) north
Handsworth Park (Formerly Victoria Park)Registered park or garden, Grade II1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Key Hill CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.3 km (0.8 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Soho LoopLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) south
Halfmoon PlantationWood2.4 km (1.5 miles) north
Icknield Port LoopLake or reservoir2.6 km (1.6 miles) south
Perry ReservoirLake or reservoir3.4 km (2.1 miles) north
Garden GroveWood3.5 km (2.2 miles) north
Brookvale ParkLake or reservoir3.9 km (2.5 miles) north-east

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

Air quality

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

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)16.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.2205
Particles (PM10)12.94015

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

Road 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
75 dB or more10
70 to 74210
65 to 69830
60 to 64390
55 to 59100
Under 558162

154 of the street's 162 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
Welford Primary SchoolPrimary3–11270 m No published inspection 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
King Edward VI Handsworth SchoolSecondary11–18430 m (0.3 miles) No overall grade (Dec 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 76.2 (74.2 in 2025 and 77.3 in 2024); 99.5% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B; 33.7% AAB or better; progress below average
Nishkam Primary School Birmingham SikhPrimary4–11520 m (0.3 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 84% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 16% at the higher standard (2025; 78% in 2024 and 75% in 2023)
Anglesey Primary SchoolPrimary3–11550 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 49% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 30% in 2024 and 36% in 2023)
St Francis Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11570 m (0.4 miles) 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 None published
St Michael's CofE Primary Academy, Handsworth Church of EnglandPrimary4–11580 m (0.4 miles) Outstanding (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 77% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 19% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 65% in 2023)
Heathfield Primary SchoolPrimary3–11660 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 76% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 74% in 2023)
St Clare's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11870 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
St Marys C of E Primary and Nursery, Academy, Handsworth Church of EnglandPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)
Westminster Primary SchoolPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 8% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 49% in 2023)
Nishkam High School SikhSecondary11–191 km (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 52.0 (51.3 in 2025 and 52.8 in 2024); 56.2% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B-; 17.8% AAB or better; progress average
Holte SchoolSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Oct 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 42.1 (39.4 in 2025 and 43.5 in 2024); 34% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 9.1% AAB or better; progress average

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 630 m (0.4 miles); the nearest is 230 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Precious Wings B19 1NX Full day care 55 Feb 2026: Needs attention in 6 areas 230 m
Rainbow Day Nursery B19 1QW Sessional day care 50 Jan 2026: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 5 270 m
Lionheart Christian Nursery B19 1AY Full day care 57 Feb 2026: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 5 450 m (0.3 miles)
Learning Steps Day Nursery B19 1AY Sessional day care 32 Jan 2026: Expected standard in 4 areas, Needs attention in 2 450 m (0.3 miles)
Little Smarties Academy Limited B20 2RE Full day care 47 Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 520 m (0.3 miles)
Lime Tree Nursery B19 1HJ Full day care 49 Good (Jun 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 530 m (0.3 miles)
Happy Days Pre School B19 1QY Sessional day care 58 Requires improvement (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 540 m (0.3 miles)
Nishkam Nursery B21 9SN Full day care 108 Not inspected yet 550 m (0.3 miles)
Skools Out B19 1PH Out-of-school day care 40 Not inspected yet 590 m (0.4 miles)
Jellybean Nursery B18 5NJ Sessional day care 30 Good (Dec 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 630 m (0.4 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
Villa Shop B19 1NNRetailers - other20 m4 Good9 Dec 2024
West Midlands Jerk Centre B19 1NNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m3 Generally satisfactory18 Feb 2026
Ahmad Supermarket B19 1NNRetailers - other20 m2 Improvement necessary22 Jul 2026
Villa Supermarket B19 1NHRetailers - other30 m1 Major improvement necessary10 Mar 2026
Bongo Takeaway B19 1NHTakeaway/sandwich shop40 m3 Generally satisfactory20 Aug 2025
I and l Convencie Store /Super Save B19 1NHRetailers - other40 m5 Very good27 Oct 2009
Arab Butcher B19 1NHOther catering premises40 mUnknown25 Aug 2026
Pakeeza Supermarket & Post Office B19 1NHRetailers - other40 m3 Generally satisfactory21 Nov 2023
Greggs B19 1NHTakeaway/sandwich shop50 m5 Very good4 Jul 2024
The Little Dessert Shop B19 1HARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m5 Very good14 Sep 2026
Mishtidesh Lozells B19 1HARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen80 m4 Good13 Nov 2025
Rio's Piri Piri B19 1HARestaurant/Cafe/Canteen90 m4 Good30 Oct 2025
Nonia Mini Market B19 1NHRetailers - other90 m5 Very good6 Feb 2019
Cake Box B19 1HARetailers - other100 m5 Very good3 Dec 2021
H Delight B19 1NHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Jun 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.

538 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences200
Shoplifting65
Drugs54
Criminal damage and arson44
Public order31
Vehicle crime26
Possession of weapons25
Other theft24
Anti-social behaviour21
Robbery19
Burglary14
Other crime9
Theft from the person5
Bicycle theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Parking Area (131); On or near Barker Street (121); On or near Heathfield Avenue (63); On or near Radnor Road (36); On or near Weston Road (28).

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.

76 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 1 fatal, 9 serious and 66 slight, in which 1 person died and 10 people were seriously hurt. 28 involved a pedestrian; 6 involved a cyclist; 6 involved a motorcyclist; 2 involved a child under 16. 41% happened in the dark, and 26% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
2021150
202271
2023143
2024173
2025233
The most recent 10 of 76
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
19 Dec 2025 09:50 Slight 1 person A41, 30 mph Wet road
16 Dec 2025 11:16 Fatal 2 people: 2 pedestrians A41, 30 mph Daylight
3 Dec 2025 19:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
2 Dec 2025 16:51 Slight 2 people: 2 pedestrians Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
22 Nov 2025 01:39 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian B4124, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
14 Nov 2025 07:15 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
26 Oct 2025 06:34 Slight 1 person A41, 30 mph Wet road
24 Oct 2025 21:15 Slight 1 person A41, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
11 Oct 2025 19:34 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist B4144, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
29 Sep 2025 20:30 Slight 1 person: 1 motorcyclist B4124, 30 mph Dark, street lights on

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A41 between A4540 Triangle and A4040S, with 17,382 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 230 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A41 A4540 Triangle to A4040S 17,382 estimated; counted 2021 2% +5% since 2015 230 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,322 residents in 458 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 age3140
Children under 1521%17%
Aged 65 and over7%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)17%61%
Owned outright10%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented61%17%
Private rented22%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work37%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)22%6%
Retired (of adults)7%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)14%32%
Travel to work by car or van49%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus23%8%
On foot or by bicycle11%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away5%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)21%34%
No qualifications33%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)73%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all11%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all 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

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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.

Nearby streets

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What this page cannot tell you

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

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