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On Croft Road, in Yardley
What it's like at B26 1SQ: every home that has sold on Croft Road since 1995 and who owns them, what's happening down the road, crime on the street, a day in the life, history on the doorstep and what's changing nearby. Moving, buying, selling, improving or investing? Pick a lens above for what matters to you.
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Compared with all 7,264 neighbourhoods in England and Wales (council well-being: all councils). Open a tab below for the detail.
ORR, DfE, police.uk, OS Terrain 50 and Open Greenspace, Forestry Commission, Defra noise maps (England), Xoserve. Every distance: Moving; radon, ground and flood checks: Buying.
2 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Croft Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 59 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 45, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Jul 2004 | £127,000 | 90 m² | £1,411/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 46, Croft RoadTerraced | Mar 2022 | £265,000 | 94 m² | £2,819/m² | 2 |
| 47, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Aug 2007 | £176,000 | 126 m² | £1,397/m² | 2 |
| 48, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2020 | £215,000 | 113 m² | £1,903/m² | 2 |
| 49, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Apr 1998 | £56,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 50, Croft RoadSemi-detached | May 2011 | £147,500 | 87 m² | £1,695/m² | 1 |
| 51, Croft RoadSemi-detached | May 2024 | £240,000 | 91 m² | £2,637/m² | 3 |
| 52, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2025 | £282,500 | 85 m² | £3,324/m² | 2 |
| 54, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2023 | £278,000 | 98 m² | £2,837/m² | 1 |
| 55, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2021 | £233,000 | 98 m² | £2,378/m² | 1 |
| 56, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Feb 2022 | £249,000 | 93 m² | £2,677/m² | 2 |
| 57, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Jan 2025 | £270,000 | 83 m² | £3,253/m² | 1 |
| 58, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Jun 2026 | £283,000 | 82 m² | £3,451/m² | 1 |
| 59, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Oct 2020 | £252,000 | 106 m² | £2,377/m² | 1 |
| 61, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Sept 2018 | £192,500 | 82 m² | £2,348/m² | 1 |
| 62, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Nov 2020 | £240,000 | 77 m² | £3,117/m² | 1 |
| 63, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2014 | £143,000 | 84 m² | £1,702/m² | 1 |
| 64, Croft RoadTerraced | Nov 2020 | £210,000 | 89 m² | £2,360/m² | 3 |
| 68, Croft RoadSemi-detached | Sept 1995 | £59,999 | – | – | 1 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Stechford, a short drive or bike ride (1.9 km), with 417k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Wroxton Road, 100 m away, with a bus about every 16 minutes on weekdays (routes 98, 99, 99A, 891); 94 departures an hour from the 16 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Yardley Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (500 m); 60% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Cockshut Hill School, 1.1 km away; Attainment 8: 38.3 · 7.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Eden Girls' Leadership Academy, Birmingham (1.5 km) and Eden Boys' Leadership Academy, Birmingham East (3 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: King Edward VI Aston School (6.4 km) and King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls (7.7 km).
It's a family area: 20% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Iceland, 100 m away; Yardley Express (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Harvey Road Health Centre (400 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (300 m).
For a haircut, Snowdons is 250 m away.
The nearest full A&E is City Health Campus, 8.6 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 57% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 60% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 15 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 9 restaurants and cafés, 1 pubs and bars.
Cavallino is the closest café or restaurant (100 m), and New Inn the nearest pub (850 m).
Crime is around the national middle: about 108 per 1,000 residents a year.
There are 18 listed buildings.
It's a mix of homes: 20% flats and 9% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 54% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Old Yardley Park, 800 m away; for exercise, Air Ninja (800 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 14.0 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 4.5 km away.
Most households own their home, 19% rent privately.
It's young: 20% of residents are aged 15–29.
30 places on this map are within about a 10-minute walk.
Walking times are estimates from straight-line distance. Food businesses from the FSA food hygiene register; schools from the DfE register; nurseries from Ofsted's childcare register; care homes from the Care Quality Commission; pools, sports halls, tennis and golf from Sport England Active Places (contains data © Sport England); everything else © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Map © OpenFreeMap, OpenMapTiles, OpenStreetMap contributors.
Birmingham Yardley constituency: Jess Phillips MP (Labour), since May 2015. 2024 general election: Lab hold, majority 693 (1.9%), turnout 49%. Vote shares: Labour 31%, Workers Party of Britain 29%, Reform UK 14%, Liberal Democrat 10%.
28 new homes, planning permissions and school changes on record within 2 km, plus energy projects, road works, storm overflows and major infrastructure. Everything changing near B26 1SQ →
Written from the figures on this page: Census 2021, DfT journey times (2019), NaPTAN/ORR, Ofsted, CQC, FSA, police.uk and planning registers. Figures describe the neighbourhood around the street.
Tap a type to see what it covers and how it has changed in Birmingham since 2011.
police.uk, 2025-09 to 2026-08. Crimes are mapped to the nearest of a set of anonymised points and labelled with that point's street, so busy roads and junctions collect crimes from nearby; the street has about 59 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 1 of 51 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 0 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.7% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.3% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 91.1% | 84.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 8.3% | 14.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.1% | 1.4% | 2.1% |
From each home's latest energy certificate, so panels or heat pumps fitted since aren't counted and the shares are lower than today's real figures. Compare areas in the data explorer.
Nearest: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 87 min
Nearest: Chasewater Railway · about 33 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
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