Dickens Heath

What is it like to live in Dickens Heath?

Homes sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, down 31.7% on the 12 months before. At 70 of the 97 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 98 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Gps Healthcare, 1.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Whitlocks End, 1.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Dickens Heath?

Homes in Dickens Heath sold for a typical £220,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 89 sales, down 31.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

• Detached £675,000 19 sales
• Semi-detached £343,475 14 sales
• Terraced £333,250 8 sales
• Flat or maisonette £170,000 48 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole B90 district, Dickens Heath's main postcode district: a typical £340,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Dickens Heath: 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 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Dickens Heath?

2 of the 98 postcodes now in use in Dickens Heath came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 95 homes sold in Dickens Heath were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the B90 district, 9%.

The newest postcodes

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

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Dickens Heath?

Ofcom reports on 97 of the 98 postcodes in Dickens Heath. At 70 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Dickens Heath at risk of flooding?

None of the 98 postcodes in Dickens Heath is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Dickens Heath?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Dickens Heath. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Dickens Heath?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Dickens Heath is Whitlocks End Rail Station, 1.2 km away in a straight line.

• Whitlocks End Rail Station Railway station 1.2 kmCycle
• Wythall Rail Station Railway station 2.0 kmCycle
• Shirley Rail Station Railway station 2.1 kmCycle

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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Dickens Heath?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Dickens Heath. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• Gps Healthcare Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2025 · Phone 0121 796 2777 1.4 kmCycle
• Hollyoaks Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 01564 823182 2.3 kmCycle
• Hollywood Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2025 · Phone 01564 822642 3.1 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Dickens Heath safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 634 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Dickens Heath 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

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: drugs 11, shoplifting 10, possession of weapons 10, robbery 6, bicycle theft 4, theft from the person 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.

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Dickens Heath?

Council

Solihull

Parliamentary constituency

Solihull West and Shirley

Police force area

West Midlands

Region

West Midlands

Country

England

MP

Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst (Conservative)

All 98 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.