Garretts Green
WardEast Birmingham. About 11,809 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.5 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Garretts Green live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Garretts Green compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Garretts Green safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Garretts Green at a rate of 133.0 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 124.6 per 1,000 people across Birmingham.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 114 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Garretts Green.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (564), other crime (192) and criminal damage and arson (129).
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Figures for the whole of Birmingham
These figures are published for the whole of Birmingham, not for each ward, so they describe all of Birmingham and not Garretts Green alone. See Birmingham
Garretts Green in brief
Garretts Green had 11,494 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Garretts Green live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Garretts Green, 98.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In Garretts Green, 10.0% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.