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On Perry Avenue, in Perry Barr & South Hamstead
What it's like at B42 2NF: every home that has sold on Perry Avenue 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.
1 home on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Perry Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 32 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 4, Perry AvenueDetached | Aug 2001 | £130,000 | 125 m² | £1,040/m² | 1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6, Perry AvenueSemi-detached | May 2018 | £243,000 | 104 m² | £2,337/m² | 1 |
| 8, Perry AvenueSemi-detached | Jul 2023 | £340,000 | 85 m² | £4,000/m² | 2 |
| 10, Perry AvenueSemi-detached | Feb 2005 | £194,950 | – | – | 1 |
| 12, Perry AvenueSemi-detached | Mar 1999 | £88,500 | 246 m² | £360/m² | 1 |
| 20, Perry AvenueSemi-detached | Oct 2020 | £265,000 | 94 m² | £2,819/m² | 1 |
| 22, Perry AvenueDetached | Jul 1999 | £73,000 | 166 m² | £440/m² | 1 |
| 24, Perry AvenueSemi-detached | Apr 2025 | £315,000 | 76 m² | £4,145/m² | 1 |
| 26, Perry AvenueSemi-detached | Jun 2017 | £210,000 | 99 m² | £2,121/m² | 1 |
| 28, Perry AvenueSemi-detached | Sept 2022 | £347,000 | 88 m² | £3,943/m² | 2 |
| 34, Perry AvenueTerraced | Oct 2023 | £307,000 | 95 m² | £3,232/m² | 2 |
| 38, Perry AvenueTerraced | Dec 2016 | £200,000 | 95 m² | £2,105/m² | 2 |
| 40, Perry AvenueTerraced | May 2022 | £420,000 | 159 m² | £2,642/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
The nearest station is Perry Barr, about a 15-minute walk (1.2 km), with 185k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Perry Avenue, 150 m away, with a bus about every 4 minutes on weekdays (routes X51, 51, 52); 54 departures an hour from the 5 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Dorrington Academy, about a 10-minute walk (1.0 km); 75% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Prince Albert High School, 1.3 km away.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: Aston University Engineering Academy (5 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys (3 km) and King Edward VI Handsworth School (3.1 km).
It's a family area: 21% of residents are under 15.
The nearest supermarket is Asda, 950 m away, with Walsall Road Post Office closer still (250 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Perry Park Surgery (250 m), with Star Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (250 m).
For a haircut, Golden Scissors is 1.0 km away.
The nearest full A&E is City Health Campus, 4.7 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: 21 restaurants and cafés, 3 pubs and bars.
Dixy Chicken (Perry Barr) is the closest café or restaurant (250 m), and Tennis Court Birmingham the nearest pub (200 m).
Takeaways are plentiful (15 of them).
Crime is higher than in most places, at about 152 per 1,000 residents a year (busy town centres push this figure up).
It's a mix of homes: 8% flats and 8% detached houses.
It's largely interwar: 81% of homes were built between 1919 and 1939.
The nearest park is Perry Hall Playing Fields, 450 m away; for exercise, Alexander Stadium Comminty Gym (550 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 15.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 14 km away.
Most households own their home, 24% rent privately.
It's young: 20% of residents are aged 15–29.
22 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 Perry Barr constituency: Ayoub Khan MP (Independent), since July 2024. 2024 general election: Ind gain from Lab, majority 507 (1.4%), turnout 49%. Vote shares: Independent 36%, Labour 34%, Conservative 11%, Reform UK 7%.
16 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 B42 2NF →
The nearest university is Aston University, 4.5 km away (TEF Gold).
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.
Nearest: Cotswold Country Park and Beach · about 83 min
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.
On this street: 0 of 26 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 | 0.2% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.1% |
| Mains gas | 95.3% | 84.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.2% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 4.3% | 14.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.0% | 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.
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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 32 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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