Balsall Common

Balsall Common is covered by postcode district CV7. It is in the Solihull council area, England.

Typical price £477,500 Homes sold in Balsall Common, last 12 months. ▲ 4.9% on the year before Gigabit broadband 104 of 148 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 2 of 148 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 2 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Balsall Common, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Balsall Common, by flood risk Of the 148 postcodes in Balsall Common that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk and 146 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Balsall Common. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A452 CV7 7AA: not on the flood risk listCV7 7AB: not on the flood risk listCV7 7AD: not on the flood risk listCV7 7AE: not on the flood risk listCV7 7AF: not on the flood risk listCV7 7AG: not on the flood risk listCV7 7AH: not on the flood risk listCV7 7AJ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7AL: not on the flood risk listCV7 7AN: not on the flood risk listCV7 7AP: not on the flood risk listCV7 7AQ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7AR: not on the flood risk listCV7 7AU: not on the flood risk listCV7 7BF: not on the flood risk listCV7 7DJ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7DL: not on the flood risk listCV7 7DN: not on the flood risk listCV7 7DP: not on the flood risk listCV7 7DQ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7DR: not on the flood risk listCV7 7DS: not on the flood risk listCV7 7DT: not on the flood risk listCV7 7DU: not on the flood risk listCV7 7DW: not on the flood risk listCV7 7DX: not on the flood risk listCV7 7DY: not on the flood risk listCV7 7DZ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7EA: not on the flood risk listCV7 7ED: not on the flood risk listCV7 7EE: not on the flood risk listCV7 7EG: not on the flood risk listCV7 7EH: not on the flood risk listCV7 7EJ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7EL: not on the flood risk listCV7 7EN: not on the flood risk listCV7 7EP: not on the flood risk listCV7 7EQ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7ER: not on the flood risk listCV7 7ES: not on the flood risk listCV7 7EW: not on the flood risk listCV7 7EX: not on the flood risk listCV7 7EY: not on the flood risk listCV7 7EZ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FA: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FD: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FE: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FF: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FG: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FJ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FL: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FN: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FP: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FQ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FR: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FS: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FT: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FU: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FW: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FX: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FY: not on the flood risk listCV7 7FZ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GA: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GB: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GD: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GE: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GF: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GJ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GL: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GN: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GP: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GQ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GR: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GS: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GT: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GU: not on the flood risk listCV7 7GW: not on the flood risk listCV7 7HB: not on the flood risk listCV7 7HD: not on the flood risk listCV7 7JB: not on the flood risk listCV7 7JD: not on the flood risk listCV7 7JF: not on the flood risk listCV7 7JH: not on the flood risk listCV7 7NX: not on the flood risk listCV7 7NY: not on the flood risk listCV7 7NZ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7PA: not on the flood risk listCV7 7PG: not on the flood risk listCV7 7PH: not on the flood risk listCV7 7PJ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7PN: not on the flood risk listCV7 7PP: not on the flood risk listCV7 7PQ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7PR: not on the flood risk listCV7 7PS: not on the flood risk listCV7 7PU: not on the flood risk listCV7 7PX: not on the flood risk listCV7 7PY: not on the flood risk listCV7 7PZ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QA: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QB: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QD: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QE: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QF: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QG: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QH: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QJ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QL: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QN: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QP: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QR: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QS: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QT: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QU: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QW: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QX: not on the flood risk listCV7 7QZ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7RA: not on the flood risk listCV7 7RB: not on the flood risk listCV7 7RD: not on the flood risk listCV7 7RE: not on the flood risk listCV7 7RF: not on the flood risk listCV7 7RG: not on the flood risk listCV7 7RN: not on the flood risk listCV7 7RP: not on the flood risk listCV7 7RR: not on the flood risk listCV7 7RS: not on the flood risk listCV7 7RT: not on the flood risk listCV7 7RW: not on the flood risk listCV7 7RX: not on the flood risk listCV7 7RZ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7SD: not on the flood risk listCV7 7SE: not on the flood risk listCV7 7SF: not on the flood risk listCV7 7SR: not on the flood risk listCV7 7SZ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7UB: not on the flood risk listCV7 7UG: not on the flood risk listCV7 7UH: not on the flood risk listCV7 7UL: not on the flood risk listCV7 7UN: not on the flood risk listCV7 7UP: not on the flood risk listCV7 7UQ: not on the flood risk listCV7 7UR: not on the flood risk listCV7 7US: not on the flood risk listCV7 7UT: not on the flood risk listCV7 7EF: high flood riskCV7 7EU: high flood risk Balsall Common Map of every postcode in Balsall Common, by flood risk Of the 148 postcodes in Balsall Common that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk and 146 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Balsall Common. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Balsall Common
  • A home or business at high risk: 2
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 146

Of the 148 postcodes in Balsall Common that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk and 146 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.3895, longitude -1.6512. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

CV7 7EF2 at high riskCV7 7EU1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Balsall Common?

Homes sold for a typical £477,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 4.9% on the 12 months before. At 104 of the 148 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 148 postcodes. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Berkswell, 900 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Balsall Common?

Homes in Balsall Common sold for a typical £477,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 95 sales, up 4.9% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£477,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£455,000
12 months to August 2026
£477,500

▲ up 4.9% on the 12 months before

Detached£575,000 55 sales
Semi-detached£430,000 17 sales
Terraced£317,000 10 sales
Flat or maisonette£190,000 13 sales

Across the whole CV7 district, Balsall Common's main postcode district: a typical £325,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Balsall Common: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Balsall Common?

1 of the 148 postcodes now in use in Balsall Common came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 111 homes sold in Balsall Common were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CV7 district, 22%.

The newest postcodes

CV7 7JHsince September 2025

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Balsall CommonAcross the CV7 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 95 (0%) 21 of 337 (6%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 111 (0%) 115 of 521 (22%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Balsall Common?

Ofcom reports on 148 of the 148 postcodes in Balsall Common. At 104 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit104 of 148
Postcodes where every home can get superfast141 of 148

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Balsall Common at risk of flooding?

2 of the 148 postcodes in Balsall Common have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 3 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 2 of 148 postcodes High: 3Low: 4

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Balsall Common?

The open schools at the postcodes in Balsall Common. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Balsall Common?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Balsall Common is Berkswell Rail Station, 900 m away in a straight line.

  • Berkswell Rail Station Railway station 900 mWalk
  • Tile Hill Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle
  • Hampton-in-Arden Rail Station Railway station 5.5 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Balsall Common?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Balsall Common. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

  • Balsall Common & Meriden Group Practice800 mPhone 01676 935000
Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Balsall Common safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 287 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Balsall Common over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 26 September 2025
  2. 24 October 2025
  3. 15 November 2025
  4. 10 December 2025
  5. 28 January 2026
  6. 22 February 2026
  7. 34 March 2026
  8. 26 April 2026
  9. 23 May 2026
  10. 30 June 2026
  11. 30 July 2026
  12. 19 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences87 reports
Shoplifting67 reports
Vehicle crime26 reports
Criminal damage and arson22 reports
Public order21 reports
Other theft20 reports
Burglary16 reports
Anti-social behaviour14 reports

Also: other crime 8, drugs 2, possession of weapons 2, bicycle theft 1, robbery 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Balsall Common?

Council
Solihull
Parliamentary constituency
Meriden and Solihull East
Police force area
West Midlands
Region
West Midlands
Country
England
MP
Saqib Bhatti (Conservative)

All 148 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

Moving to Balsall Common

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Balsall Common postcodes

148 postcodes in use in Balsall Common, by district:

CV7 postcode district,148 postcodes

That district is in the CV postcode area.

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Places near Balsall Common

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Balsall Common's £477,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Hampton in Arden5.5 km, £500,000Knowle and Dorridge6.7 km, £560,000Kenilworth7.3 km, £380,000Hockley Heath9.6 km, £409,000Coventry10.1 km, £228,000Solihull10.5 km, £340,000Cheswick Green11.1 km, £318,000Keresley Newlands11.3 km, £200,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Balsall Common

What is it like to live in Balsall Common?
Homes sold for a typical £477,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 4.9% on the 12 months before. At 104 of the 148 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 148 postcodes. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Berkswell, 900 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Balsall Common?
Balsall Common is covered by postcode district CV7, across 148 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Balsall Common in?
Balsall Common is in the Solihull council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Balsall Common?
Balsall Common is in the Meriden and Solihull East parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Saqib Bhatti (Conservative), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Balsall Common?
Homes in Balsall Common sold for a typical £477,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 95 sales, up 4.9% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Balsall Common?
In Balsall Common, primary schools at its postcodes include Balsall Common Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Heart of England School. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Balsall Common have a railway station?
Yes: Berkswell is 900 metres from the centre point of the postcodes in Balsall Common, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Balsall Common?
Ofcom reports on 148 of the 148 postcodes in Balsall Common. At 104 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Balsall Common at risk of flooding?
2 of the 148 postcodes in Balsall Common have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 3 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Balsall Common?
1 of the 148 postcodes now in use in Balsall Common came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 111 homes sold in Balsall Common were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the CV7 district, 22%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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