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On Buxton Road, in Wylde Green
What it's like at B73 5RR: every home that has sold on Buxton 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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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). 3 homes have a new energy certificate in the last 6 months and no sale since: often a sign of a sale or let coming.
Sales and extensions on Buxton Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
None of the 19 homes on the street is owned by a company.
| 18, Buxton RoadDetached | Jan 2026 | £550,000 | 93 m² | £5,914/m² | 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19, Buxton RoadDetached | Jan 2000 | £123,500 | 130 m² | £950/m² | 1 |
| 20, Buxton RoadSemi-detached | Mar 2018 | £395,500 | 108 m² | £3,662/m² | 2 |
| 22, Buxton RoadDetached | Aug 2005 | £227,500 | – | – | 2 |
| 24, Buxton RoadDetached | Feb 2000 | £106,000 | – | – | 2 |
| 26, Buxton RoadDetached | Sept 2018 | £362,000 | 146 m² | £2,479/m² | 3 |
| 28, Buxton RoadDetached | Jan 2013 | £317,000 | 118 m² | £2,686/m² | 2 |
| 29, Buxton RoadSemi-detached | Apr 2018 | £375,000 | 137 m² | £2,737/m² | 1 |
| 31, Buxton RoadDetached | Jul 2005 | £284,950 | 112 m² | £2,544/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 (300 m), with 521k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Boldmere Gardens, 300 m away, with a bus about every 32 minutes on weekdays (route 66); 8 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 Boldmere Junior School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 66% 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 Tesco, 650 m away, with Londis Gravelly Park closer still (100 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is The Hawthorns Surgery (800 m), with Boots the closest pharmacy (950 m).
For a haircut, J's Salon is 600 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.
Boldmere Bistro is the closest café or restaurant (500 m), and Smoky Jerk the nearest pub (600 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 Short Heath Park, 1.2 km away; for exercise, The Amber Arena & Community Stadium (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.
35 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%.
31 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 5RR →
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 19 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 15 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.
National infrastructure projects and headline schemes only, not local planning applications. See them all on a map.
Nearest: Rutland Water Whitwell Creek · about 87 min
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