What's the median rent in Birmingham 039I?

The median monthly rent across Birmingham 039I is £1,086.

How safe is Birmingham 039I?

Birmingham 039I has a safety score of 4/100 out of 100, where higher is safer.

How well-connected is Birmingham 039I?

Transport score: 92/100. Combines public transit access and walkability.

Which neighbourhood is Birmingham 039I part of?

Birmingham 039I sits inside the Handsworth South neighbourhood, in Birmingham, West Midlands.

Sub-area · Handsworth South · Birmingham · West Midlands

Living in Birmingham 039I

Part of Handsworth South · 1,461 residents

Birmingham 039I is a sub-area in Handsworth South, Birmingham that skews under 18 and tenure-mixed. Median rent sits at £1,086 a month, up 3.5% on the year, with council tax in band A adding roughly £197/mo. Safety ranks in the top decile of UK sub-areas (3rd percentile nationally). Gigabit broadband reaches 100% of premises.

Median rent

£1,086+3.5%

vs last year

ONS Rent Index (PIPR) · Mar 2026

Liveability

82/100

Composite score

Safety

4/100

Higher is safer

Police.uk crime data · Feb 2026

Transport

92/100

Transit + walk

Schools

89/100

Ofsted-weighted

Ofsted inspections · Feb 2026

Broadband

100%

gigabit-ready

Ofcom Connected Nations 2025 · 2025

Who lives here

Age structure, tenure mix and dwelling type from Census 2021.

Age structure

Under 1830%

18–3424%

35–4924%

50–6414%

65+9%

Population1,461

Tenure & housing type

Owner-occupied42%

Private rent45%

Social rent11%

Flats11%

Terraced61%

Semi-detached18%

Detached10%

Detailed community breakdownHouseholds · ethnicity · religion · country of birth · health · qualifications

Household composition

One person18%Couple with children30%Lone parent17%Other17%

Ethnic mix

Diversity index 49.60

White10%Asian69%Black9%Mixed2%Other10%

Religion (Census 2021, voluntary question)

Christian17%Muslim29%No religion4%Other44%

Country of birth

Born in UK43%

Born outside UK58%

General health (self-reported)

Good82%Fair12%Bad7%

Disability prevalence13%

Education attainment (residents 16+)

Degree or above20%

Apprenticeship5%

No qualifications38%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (TS001 / TS006 / TS044).

Cost

An all-in monthly cost estimate for Birmingham 039I comes to about £1,351 — combining rent, council tax (band A), and an EPC-based utility estimate.

Affordability score

95/100· 88th percentile nationally

All-in monthly

£1,351

Rent + council tax + utility estimate

Median rent (any size)£1,086/mo+3.5%

2-bed median rent£992/mo

Council tax (estimated)£1,555/yr

Sale price (median)£160,000+0.7%

Price-to-earnings5.3×

Rent / take-home43%

EPC median bandD

Yield (gross BTL)7.4%

Detailed cost breakdownRent by bedroom & property type · sale prices · affordability

Rent by bedroom count

median monthly

1 bed£821/mo

2 bed£992/mo+3.7%

3 bed£1,119/mo

4 bed£1,563/mo

Rent by property type

median monthly

Detached£1,421/mo

Semi-detached£1,136/mo

Terraced£1,082/mo

Flat£909/mo

Sale price by property type

HPI average price

All properties (HPI avg)£232,266+0.7%

Detached£440,005

Semi-detached£272,385

Terraced£219,717

Flat£144,119-2.4%

Sales (Land Registry, lifetime)7

Lower quartile sale£120,000

Upper quartile sale£170,000

Affordability & running costs

Years to save 10% deposit2.7 yr

Mortgage (25y, 5%)£842/mo

Price / earnings (HPI vs ASHE)7.7×

Council tax — Band D billing£2,033/yr

Council tax — Band D incl. precepts£2,363/yr

Modal council tax bandA

Fuel poverty (LILEE)28.2%

EPC homes rated A/B0%

Source: Rent: ONS PIPR, May 2026. Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.

Property

EPC band distribution, council tax band mix and recent supply per 1,000 residents.

EPC median

D band

Modal council tax bandA

Completions / 1,0002.1

Detailed housing breakdownCouncil tax bands · EPC stock · supply pipeline

Council tax band distribution

490 dwellings · VOA CTSOP

Band A94%Band B4%

Modal bandA

Total dwellings490

Band D — billing only£2,033/yr

Band D — incl. all precepts£2,363/yr

Estimated for this local area's mix£1,555/yr

EPC stock

Median EPC bandD

% rated A or B0%

EPC certificates lodged46

Housing supply pipeline

MHCLG, FY 2024-25, council-area level fanned to local area

Completions (annual)900

Starts (annual)480

Completions / 1,000 households2.1

Pipeline ratio (starts / completions)0.53

Source: EPC: MHCLG bulk download. Council tax bands: VOA CTSOP 1.1.

Safety

How crime here compares to the England + Wales average. The raw rate per 1,000 residents per year is shown alongside for reference.

How crime is measured

What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.

Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.

Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.

ContextRates are per resident. As a major workday and tourist destination, the daytime population here is much larger than the resident base — so the per-resident figure overstates a typical resident's exposure.

Safety score

4/100· 3rd percentile nationally

Total / 1k / yr360.43rd percentile nationally

Violent / 1k / yr119.9

Burglary / 1k / yr12.6

ASB / 1k / yr24.5

All crime categories14 categories ranked by local rate

Incidents per 1,000 residents per year

Sorted high → low. Hover any category for what it covers.

Violent & sexual offences

119.9

Drugs

32.3

Vehicle crime

28.1

Anti-social behaviour

24.5

Shoplifting

23.8

Public order

21.7

Criminal damage & arson

21.0

Other theft

20.3

Possession of weapons

19.6

Robbery

16.1

Burglary

12.6

Theft from the person

12.6

Other crime

6.3

Bicycle theft

1.4

Personal safety (composite)

Personal-safety index per 1k155.7

IMD crime sub-domain (lower = safer)1.58

Source: Crime: data.police.uk monthly counts, normalised by population. National avg = England + Wales population-weighted mean.

Transport

Distance to the nearest rail station, plus modelled commute time to a major employment centre.

Transport score

92/100· 84th percentile nationally

Nearest rail1.8 km (The Hawthorns)

Nearest tube/metro501 m

PT to 5,000+ jobs hub—

Drive to 5,000+ jobs—

Detailed transport breakdownCity commutes · job accessibility · how residents travel to work

Commute time to major cities

public transport, off-peak typical

Birmingham

34 min

Sheffield

90 min

Bristol

109 min

London

110 min

Manchester

110 min

Liverpool

120 min

Cardiff

140 min

Leeds

149 min

Glasgow

264 min

Edinburgh

269 min

Job accessibility from this area

Minutes to reach N jobs by car / public transport

Drive — 100 jobs reachable—

PT — 100 jobs reachable—

Drive — 500 jobs reachable—

PT — 500 jobs reachable—

Drive — 5,000 jobs reachable—

PT — 5,000 jobs reachable—

How residents travel to work

Census 2021 mode share

Car44%Public25%Active11%WFH14%

Source: Rail: National Rail / TfL ATCO. Commute: DfT Journey Time Statistics.

Schools

Distribution of Ofsted ratings amongst schools serving this area.

School score

89/100

Outstanding0%

Good100%

Schools in catchment1

Nearest outstanding856 m

Detailed school breakdownFull Ofsted distribution · distances · catchment counts

Ofsted rating distribution

schools whose postcode falls in this local area

Good100%

Outstanding (count)0

Good (count)1

Requires improvement (count)0

Inadequate (count)0

Schools within walking distance

Schools within 2 km32

Good or outstanding within 2 km12

% within 2 km that are good/outstanding38%

Nearest school285 m

Nearest good or outstanding309 m

Nearest outstanding856 m

Source: Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.

Jobs

Local jobs density and pay levels. Workplace pay reflects what jobs in this area pay; residence pay reflects what residents earn.

Jobs per resident0.49

Median salary£30,180/yr

Workplace salary£33,374/yr

Claimant count10.1%-0.3pp

Detailed jobs & earnings breakdownSector mix · pay percentiles · economic activity · occupations · qualifications

Jobs by sector

% of local jobs (BRES — figure is the same across all neighbourhoods in this council area)

Retail & hospitality

19.6%

Health & social care

17.4%

Professional & business svcs

11.3%

Education

9.8%

Manufacturing

4.9%

Finance & insurance

4.2%

Tech & ICT

3.5%

Construction

3.4%

Total jobs (latest)627,000

Jobs growth — 5 year+4.3%

Jobs growth — year on year0.0%

Net commute flow559,631

Pay percentiles — what residents earn

ASHE residence analysis, gross earnings

Lower quartile (annual)£20,360/yr

Median (annual)£30,180/yr

Mean (annual)£34,020/yr

Upper quartile (annual)£43,982/yr

Median weekly£601/wk

Median hourly£16.40/hr

Pay percentiles — what local jobs pay

ASHE workplace analysis

Lower quartile (annual)£23,029/yr

Median (annual)£33,374/yr

Mean (annual)£38,815/yr

Upper quartile (annual)£48,781/yr

Median weekly£656/wk

Median hourly£18.20/hr

Economic activity (Census 2021)

ILO unemployment 14.8% · 16+ residents

ILO unemployment rate: 14.8% · 50% economically active — Unemployed as a share of the economically active population (employed + job-seeking), matching the ONS Labour Force Survey definition. Inactive residents are excluded from the denominator.

Employed43%Unemployed7%Inactive50%

Census 2021 TS066: all residents aged 16+ split into three non-overlapping groups. Inactive covers students, retirees, full-time carers and the long-term sick — together these bars always sum to 100%. The ILO unemployment rate above strips out inactive residents, giving a figure comparable to the national headline rate.

Working-age population867

DWP claimants (people)77,715

DWP claimant rate10.1%

Claimant YoY change-0.3pp

DWP claimant count tracks 16-64 residents on Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. It's narrower than Census "unemployed" (which includes anyone actively job-seeking, claiming or not) but updates monthly so it's the most current local indicator.

Occupation mix

working residents

Professional20%Service19%Manual41%

Qualifications

Census 2021, residents 16+

Degree or above20%

Apprenticeship5%

No qualifications38%

Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings + Business Register and Employment Survey + DWP claimant count.

Connectivity

Share of premises with each broadband tier available, latest Ofcom Connected Nations data.

Gigabit availability

100%

Ultrafast (≥100 Mbit/s)100%

Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)100%

Below USO (<10 Mbit/s)0.0%

Sub-2 Mbit/s0.0%

Broadband + mobile coverage detailGranular speed tiers · 4G / 5G indoor & outdoor

Fixed-line broadband — coverage by tier

Gigabit-capable100%

≥300 Mbit/s available100%

Ultrafast (≥100 Mbit/s)100%

Superfast (≥30 Mbit/s)100%

Below USO (<10 Mbit/s)0.0%

Sub-2 Mbit/s premises0.0%

Mobile coverage

Ofcom Connected Nations 2025

4G indoor — any operator100%

4G indoor — all operators99%

5G outdoor — any operator100%

Voice indoor — any operator100%

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations 2025, postcode-level coverage aggregated to local area.

Environment

Air quality (annual mean concentrations), flood risk, and walkable greenspace.

PM2.5 annual mean8.2 µg/m³

NO₂ annual mean16.2 µg/m³

Flood risk zone2

Greenspace within 300m—

Parks within 1km—

Detailed environment breakdownGreenspace access · AHAH composite indices

Greenspace access (ONS, April 2020)

Distance to nearest greenspace—

Greenspaces within 1 km—

Combined greenspace area—

Postcodes within 300 m of a park—

AHAH — Access to Healthy Assets & Hazards

CDRC national percentile, higher = healthier neighbourhood

Overall AHAH

99 pct

Health services

1 pct

Green & blue space

96 pct

Air quality

91 pct

Retail hazards

97 pct

Source: Air: Defra UK-AIR PCM Background. Flood: Environment Agency. Greenspace: ONS access study (April 2020).

Healthcare

Walking distance to the nearest GP, hospital and dentist.

Nearest GP126 m

Nearest hospital1.6 km

Nearest dentist68 m

Fuel poverty28.2%

Detailed healthcare breakdownGP capacity · counts within walking distance · dental supply

GP supply

GP practices within 1 km7

GP practices within 3 km44

Patients per local GP4,858

Catchment concentration (HHI)1,398

Dental & hospital supply

Dentists within 3 km32

Dental UDA / 1k pop (ICB level)1375

Hospitals within 5 km6

Nearest urgent care1.6 km

Population health context

Self-reported good health82%

Self-reported bad health7%

Disability prevalence13%

IMD health sub-domain0.81

Source: NHS ODS / CQC Locations + nearest-feature distance from local area centroid.

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What's it like to rent in Birmingham 039I?

Birmingham 039I sits inside Handsworth South, part of the wider Birmingham council area in West Midlands. Editorial copy will replace this scaffold once the team has reviewed the area in person — until then the data tabs above are the authoritative reference.

Strengths and trade-offs

Read the dimensional ranks above for the canonical view of where this sub-area excels and where it lags. Any qualitative spin should follow from those numbers.

Who is Birmingham 039I for?

Renters most likely to thrive here are those whose priorities align with the area's strongest scores. The demographics tab gives the clearest read — age profile, tenure mix and household composition are usually the best predictor of who'll feel at home on which streets.

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Frequently asked

What's the median rent in Birmingham 039I?: The median monthly rent across Birmingham 039I is £1,086.
How safe is Birmingham 039I?: Birmingham 039I has a safety score of 4/100 out of 100, where higher is safer.
How well-connected is Birmingham 039I?: Transport score: 92/100. Combines public transit access and walkability.
Which neighbourhood is Birmingham 039I part of?: Birmingham 039I sits inside the Handsworth South neighbourhood, in Birmingham, West Midlands.

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