Elmdon Heath
Suburb · 6,463 residents
73Very good
Very good · better than 9 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 43 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 53% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 25, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Elmdon Heath
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Elmdon Heath a good place to live?
Elmdon Heath scores 73/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (86) and environment (80).
It scores lowest on food & drink (25).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Elmdon Heath in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Elmdon Heath
Elmdon Heath reads as suburban Solihull at its most settled: low-rise semis and a scattering of flats along quiet roads, with the kind of density that tells you this is a place people commute out of rather than a destination in itself. There's no obvious high street buzz here, no evening economy to speak of — this is a sleep-and-commute suburb, and it doesn't pretend otherwise.
The numbers back up that first impression in an interesting way. On safety, Elmdon Heath comes out well above the national pattern, and notably better than its own parent authority, Solihull, despite what looks like a high crime rate on paper — violence and sexual offences dominate the local breakdown, but the area's overall safety grade sits at the top of the scale, which suggests context matters more than the raw count here. What doesn't match that pattern is nightlife, which lags badly — there's essentially nowhere to go once the shops shut, and transport gets only a middling grade too, so if you don't drive, life here contracts in the evenings. Schools tell a steadier story: Tudor Grange Primary Academy Yew Tree and Coppice Academy both carry Good Ofsted ratings, which is the sort of unspectacular reliability that matters more to most parents than a single outstanding label.
Housing here is a story of relative value. A median price around £226,500 sits comfortably below both the regional figure and the national average, and roughly 11% cheaper than Solihull as a whole — you're paying suburban prices for a borough with a well-off reputation. The mix is telling too: flats are the single most common sale, but freeholds still outnumber leaseholds overall, and semi-detached and detached houses here actually sell for more than their national equivalents, while flats sell for notably less. Translated: the house-buyers here are getting relative value, but the flat stock is the softer end of the market. At a median age of 42.6, this reads as a place for people past the first flush of house-buying, not first-time buyers chasing a starter flat.