Tilehouse Green

Detached houses on quiet plots, hedges trimmed with some care, and barely a shopfront in sight — Tilehouse Green reads as residential first and everything else a distant second. The cars in the drives skew newer, the gardens skew bigger, and the overall impression is of a place people move to rather than pass through.

The numbers back up that impression. This sits in the top income and deprivation decile nationally, and a median house price around £587,000 — against a national figure of £281,000 and even Solihull's own £325,000 — puts it well into the borough's premium end, some 57% above the parent area's typical price. Detached homes dominate sales here, freehold is the norm, and a For Sale board on this street is far more likely to say "detached, four-plus bed, freehold" than anything else; flats exist in the mix too, but they're the exception, not the rule. Schooling follows the same pattern of quiet confidence: Bentley Heath Church of England Primary carries a Good rating, and the area sits within reach of Solihull School and other independent options that tend to draw a settled, older resident base — the median age here is nearly 51, a decade above the national median, which tells you this isn't a place full of new households starting out.

Where it gets more interesting is safety and transport, which don't quite match the wealth. The overall grade is a solid B, environment scores an A, and safety itself is graded A+ with a trend marked improving — genuinely reassuring signals. But transport is graded C, and there's no rail station named for this patch, so a car is doing most of the daily work rather than a train platform. Green space is present but concentrated rather than abundant: one named area covering nearly 28.5 hectares gives you somewhere to walk the dog on repeat rather than a choice of parks, and with no restaurants or cafés flagged in the data, evenings out mean driving somewhere else rather than stepping onto a lively parade. Crime overall is low in volume — 82 incidents logged locally — and violence and sexual offences make up the largest single share, which is the pattern you'd expect from a low-crime suburb where the rarer, more serious incidents count for more of the total rather than daily anti-social noise; still, it's worth noting the borough-wide crime rate comparison sits higher than you might expect for an area otherwise graded so safely, a detail worth a second look rather than a reason for alarm.