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On The Boulevard, in Wylde Green
What it's like at B73 5JE: every home that has sold on The Boulevard 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 The Boulevard; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 80 homes on the street are owned by companies.
| 67, The BoulevardSemi-detached | Aug 2017 | £395,000 | 138 m² | £2,862/m² | 1 |
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| 69, The BoulevardSemi-detached | Mar 2016 | £319,950 | 91 m² | £3,516/m² | 1 |
| 73, The BoulevardSemi-detached | Aug 2006 | £250,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 75, The BoulevardSemi-detached | Jul 2009 | £275,000 | 136 m² | £2,022/m² | 3 |
| 77, The BoulevardSemi-detached · company-owned | Mar 2008 | £285,000 | 127 m² | £2,244/m² | 2 |
| 79, The BoulevardSemi-detached | Feb 2006 | £235,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 83, The BoulevardDetached | Aug 2000 | £210,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 87, The BoulevardSemi-detached | Nov 2020 | £499,999 | 161 m² | £3,106/m² | 2 |
| 91, The BoulevardSemi-detached | Nov 2017 | £520,000 | 143 m² | £3,636/m² | 2 |
| 101, The BoulevardDetached | Feb 2015 | £465,950 | 115 m² | £4,052/m² | 1 |
| 103, The BoulevardDetached | Dec 1997 | £142,000 | – | – | 1 |
| 109, The BoulevardDetached | Sept 2020 | £630,000 | 154 m² | £4,091/m² | 3 |
| 111, The BoulevardDetached | Sept 2022 | £575,000 | 108 m² | £5,324/m² | 3 |
| 115, The BoulevardDetached | Jul 1998 | £164,500 | – | – | 1 |
| 121, The BoulevardTerraced | Jul 2008 | £310,000 | 127 m² | £2,441/m² | 1 |
| 123, The BoulevardSemi-detached | Mar 2011 | £325,500 | 128 m² | £2,543/m² | 1 |
| 125, The BoulevardDetached | Jun 1998 | £146,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 131, The BoulevardDetached | Nov 2025 | £450,000 | 106 m² | £4,245/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, a few minutes' walk (250 m), with 521k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Oakhurst Road, 350 m away, with a bus about every 5 minutes on weekdays (routes X4, 110, X5, X3); 23 departures an hour from the 2 stops within a 5-minute walk.
This is car country: only 9% of households have no car.
The nearest primary school is Wylde Green Primary School, about a 10-minute walk (700 m); 84% met the expected standard.
None of the state primaries within 2 km has Ofsted's top rating.
The nearest secondary is Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls, 1.3 km away; Attainment 8: 79.4 · 64.7% 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 Sainsbury's Local, 800 m away, with Londis Gravelly Park closer still (300 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Hawthorns Surgery (600 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (800 m).
For a haircut, Edan is 700 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 (300 m), and Walmley Golf Club the nearest pub (650 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 Abbeyfields Park, 1.3 km away; for exercise, 2nd Sutton Coldfield Scouts (600 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.
20 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%.
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 B73 5JE →
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.
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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 80 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 58 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.
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Nearest: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 87 min
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