Finding postcode…
These only choose where you start. Every page and every lens is still one tap away.
Sign in to keep them on every device →Finding postcode…
On Walsall Road, in Four Oaks
What it's like at B74 4QY: every home that has sold on Walsall 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.
Street View and the aerial view come from Google, which receives your IP address and may set cookies once you choose them. We'll remember your choice on this device.
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.
7 homes on the street extended (energy certificates). 6 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 Walsall Road; new homes, planning permissions and schools within 1 km over the last five years. Everything changing within 2 km.
1 of the 265 homes on the street are owned by companies.
Plenty of people here don't commute at all: 40% of working residents mostly worked from home at the 2021 census.
The nearest station is Butlers Lane, about a 10-minute walk (700 m), with 194k journeys a year; its busiest route is to Birmingham New Street.
The nearest bus stop is Russell Bank Road, 150 m away, with a bus about every 30 minutes on weekdays (route 6); 9 departures an hour from the 7 stops within a 5-minute walk.
The nearest primary school is Hill West Primary School, about a 5-minute walk (600 m); 78% met the expected standard.
The closest top-rated primary is Little Sutton Primary School (1.4 km).
The nearest secondary is The Arthur Terry School, 750 m away; Attainment 8: 55.4 · 16.6% of GCSEs at 8–9.
Top-rated secondaries within reach: St Francis of Assisi Catholic College (5.6 km).
Grammar schools are within reach: Bishop Vesey's Grammar School (2.4 km) and Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls (3.9 km).
The nearest supermarket is Tesco Express, 50 m away; One Stop Convenience Store (under 50 m) for top-ups.
The nearest GP surgery is Ley Hill Surgery (1.5 km), with Boots the closest pharmacy (under 50 m).
For a haircut, Bijou Hair is 50 m away.
The nearest full A&E is Manor Hospital, 11 km away, rated requires improvement by the CQC.
At its trust, 67% of major A&E patients were seen within 4 hours in September 2026 (the NHS standard is 95%), and 73% of people waiting for planned treatment had waited under 18 weeks (typical wait 11 weeks).
There's a handful of places to eat and drink locally: 20 restaurants and cafés, 8 pubs and bars.
Butlers Arms is the closest café or restaurant (900 m), and Crown Inn the nearest pub (100 m).
It's a low-crime area: about 65 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents a year, below most of the country.
It's a mix of homes: 25% flats and 34% detached houses.
The typical home here was built in 1955-1964.
The nearest park is Sutton Park, 2.2 km away; for exercise, Better Gym Mere Green (1.3 km).
Air quality is around the national middle (nitrogen dioxide 10.8 µg/m³).
For holidays, Birmingham is 16 km away.
Neighbours tend to stay put: 45% of households own their home outright.
It's an older community: 27% are 65 or over.
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.
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%.
15 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 B74 4QY →
From HM Land Registry sale records (standard sales) and energy certificates. Tap a home for its full history.
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.
On this street: 0 of 202 homes with certificates have solar panels, 0 a heat pump, and 54 are heated by something other than mains gas.
| Neighbourhood | Council | England and Wales | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with solar panels | 0.6% | 0.6% | 1.2% |
| Heated by a heat pump | 0.1% | 0.2% | 1.0% |
| Mains gas | 82.2% | 84.1% | 84.0% |
| Oil or LPG | 0.1% | 0.1% | 4.1% |
| Electric heating | 17.4% | 14.1% | 8.3% |
| Community heating | 0.2% | 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.
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 265 homes that have sold since 1995. Greater Manchester Police data is not published, and national totals leave Greater Manchester out.
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
The most notable of each. Rough times by car in free-flowing traffic, between neighbourhood centres. Check opening times before you travel.