Neighbourhood and local area reviews for renting in Birmingham

Great student area and wouldn’t have wanted to live anywhere else but 2 people close to me had their cars stolen so didn’t feel the most safe.

Good area for students to live in but really dirty and often dangerous

- Can be uneasy sometimes but that's just Selly Oak

Loud and lots of antisocial behaviour in the evenings. Standard for Selly Oak but more chaos than I had in second year on Selly Hill Road.

Has its charms - good places to eat, big student population so always round the corner from a friends house, good location to uni. But not very safe at all, as long as you don’t go out by yourself at night it’s generally fine but there are always creepy men walking around. Very noisy and dirty, always broken glass on the floor and overturned bins. I’ve lived in selly oak for 3 years and it has been fine overall, as a student area it works.

Pretty nice for selly oak, croydon road is fairly quiet, but rubbish everywhere. Short walk to uni, which is nice.

I really like Selly. It has a lot of character

Very student based area which is nice, a few things have occurred eg. Car break ins and quite noisy

The area is a student area and so noise and mess is expected. But convenient loacation for the university, town centre and shops. Despite this awful property, I have lived in much nicer houses in this area. Make sure to check out the landlord if the house because many do not care about student tenants at all.

Quieter than the part of Selly closer to campus, fantastic transport links (11 bus opposite the front door, 10 min walk to the train), and it's nice being so close to Bournville village.