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Best areas to live in Birmingham

An all-round ranking of the 55 Birmingham areas Boroughly covers: safety, schools, transport and green space, with a nudge for value. If one criterion matters more to you than the rest, the map lets you re-weight it.

Ranked from Boroughly's Birmingham dataset of 55 areas. Prices are postcode-district medians of HM Land Registry recorded sales; safety is a relative rank of police.uk recorded crime; rents and other scores are indicative - see how we source data. Use this to build a shortlist, not to make the final call.

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Four Oaks

Birmingham · £386k to buy · £1,400/mo to rent · Safety 8.4/10, schools 9/10, transport 6/10

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Wylde Green

Birmingham · £396k to buy · £1,300/mo to rent · Safety 8.9/10, schools 9/10, transport 6/10

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King's Norton

Birmingham · £241k to buy · £1,100/mo to rent · Safety 6.9/10, schools 8/10, transport 6/10

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Sutton Coldfield

Birmingham · £375k to buy · £1,350/mo to rent · Safety 7/10, schools 9/10, transport 6/10

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Bournville

Birmingham · £276k to buy · £1,250/mo to rent · Safety 5.2/10, schools 9/10, transport 6/10

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Stirchley

Birmingham · £276k to buy · £1,150/mo to rent · Safety 5.9/10, schools 8/10, transport 7/10

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Kings Heath

Birmingham · £255k to buy · £1,150/mo to rent · Safety 5.3/10, schools 8/10, transport 7/10

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Great Barr

Birmingham · £260k to buy · £1,100/mo to rent · Safety 7.3/10, schools 7/10, transport 6/10

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Harborne

Birmingham · £341k to buy · £1,300/mo to rent · Safety 5.6/10, schools 9/10, transport 6/10

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Pype Hayes

Birmingham · £240k to buy · £1,000/mo to rent · Safety 6.9/10, schools 7/10, transport 6/10

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Longbridge

Birmingham · £235k to buy · £1,050/mo to rent · Safety 6.4/10, schools 7/10, transport 6/10

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Edgbaston

Birmingham · £308k to buy · £1,350/mo to rent · Safety 4.6/10, schools 9/10, transport 7/10

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Sheldon

Birmingham · £249k to buy · £1,050/mo to rent · Safety 6.5/10, schools 7/10, transport 7/10

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Handsworth Wood

Birmingham · £250k to buy · £1,100/mo to rent · Safety 5.5/10, schools 7/10, transport 7/10

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Billesley

Birmingham · £264k to buy · £1,100/mo to rent · Safety 5.7/10, schools 8/10, transport 6/10

Rank it around your own life instead

This list weights the criteria one particular way. Yours will be different - a 40-minute cap on the school run, a must-have mosque, a hard budget ceiling. The map lets you set those and re-rank all 55 Birmingham areas against them.

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