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On Kempson Avenue, in Wylde Green
What it's like at B72 1HJ: every home that has sold on Kempson 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.
3 homes on the street extended (energy certificates).
Sales and extensions on Kempson Avenue; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 76 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 1, Kempson AvenueDetached | Dec 2020 | £422,000 | 110 m² | £3,836/m² | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2, Kempson AvenueDetached | Oct 2023 | £800,000 | 167 m² | £4,790/m² | 2 |
| 3, Kempson AvenueDetached | Jan 2020 | £525,000 | 141 m² | £3,723/m² | 3 |
| 4, Kempson AvenueDetached | Jan 2007 | £310,000 | 160 m² | £1,938/m² | 1 |
| 5, Kempson AvenueDetached | Jan 2021 | £570,000 | 174 m² | £3,276/m² | 4 |
| 6, Kempson AvenueDetached | Mar 2016 | £435,000 | 190 m² | £2,289/m² | 4 |
| 8, Kempson AvenueDetached | Sept 2021 | £495,000 | 118 m² | £4,195/m² | 1 |
| 10, Kempson AvenueDetached | Jun 2021 | £535,000 | 146 m² | £3,664/m² | 3 |
| 12, Kempson AvenueDetached | Mar 2001 | £219,000 | 164 m² | £1,335/m² | 1 |
| 14, Kempson AvenueDetached | Jan 2002 | £250,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 15, Kempson AvenueDetached | Jun 2014 | £380,000 | 179 m² | £2,123/m² | 1 |
| 16, Kempson AvenueDetached | Jan 2001 | £189,950 | 183 m² | £1,038/m² | 1 |
| 18, Kempson AvenueDetached | Mar 2000 | £165,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 20, Kempson AvenueDetached | Feb 2014 | £425,000 | 107 m² | £3,972/m² | 2 |
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 46% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Wylde Green, about a 10-minute walk (650 m), with 521k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Vesey Road, 200 m away, with a bus about every 5 minutes on weekdays (routes X4, 110, X5, X3); 46 departures an hour from the 4 stops within a 5-minute walk.
This is car country: only 9% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Maney Hill Primary School, a few minutes' walk (500 m); 75% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Bishop Walsh Catholic School, 750 m away; Attainment 8: 56 · 20.5% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Grammar schools are within reach: Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls (1.6 km) and Bishop Vesey's Grammar School (3.1 km).
The nearest supermarket is Iceland Foods, 1.1 km away, with Wylde Green Local closer still (200 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Hawthorns Surgery (1.0 km), with Vesey Pharmacy the closest pharmacy (1.1 km).
For a haircut, Charisma Beauty is 900 m away.
The nearest full A&E is City Health Campus, 9.5 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).
It's quiet in the evenings: only 3 restaurants, cafés and pubs in the neighbourhood itself.
abm catering @ Broadleaf House is the closest café or restaurant (550 m), and Sutton Coldfield Hard Courts the nearest pub (450 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 67 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
Detached houses make up 68% of homes.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Boddington Garden, 1.0 km away; for exercise, 2nd Sutton Coldfield Scouts (450 m).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 13.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 11 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 54% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 29% are 65 or over.
18 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.
Sutton Coldfield constituency: Sir Andrew Mitchell MP (Conservative), since June 2001. 2024 general election: Con hold, majority 2,543 (5.3%), turnout 65%. Vote shares: Conservative 38%, Labour 33%, Reform UK 17%, Liberal Democrat 5%.
24 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 B72 1HJ →
It's highly educated: 46% of adults have a degree.
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 76 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
On this street: 0 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 | 0.8% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 90.2% | 84.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 9.5% | 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
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