We’re funded to plant trees in areas of the city with the lowest percentage canopy cover.
We’re currently funded toward planting more trees in Soho & Jewellery Quarter, Shard End, Glebe Farm & Tile Cross, Sparkhill, Tyseley & Hay Mills and Lozells. However, we need more trees in all areas of the city so we can support you and your community to plant new trees even if you are not in a priority ward. Below is a list of all of Birmingham’s 69 wards with their percentage canopy cover as of 2023.
Planting new trees can help with specific issues such as air pollution and flood risk mitigation, diversify species to reduce pest & disease risk and act as successional trees to help prepare neighbourhoods for the future.
Percentage of Tree Canopy Cover as of 2023
Lozells - 7.9%
Ladywood - 8.1%
Bordesley & Highgate - 8.2%
Alum Rock - 8.4%
Newtown - 8.7%
Garretts Green - 9.1%
Highter's Heath - 9.2%
Bordesley Green - 9.3%
Ward End - 9.5%
Sparkhill - 9.5%
Sparkbrook & Balsall Heath East - 9.8%
Nechells - 10.1%
Castle Vale - 10.1%
Holyhead - 10.2%
Tyseley & Hay Mills - 10.3%
Pype Hayes - 10.7%
Aston - 10.9%
Small Heath - 11.7%
Soho & Jewellery Quarter - 12.2%
Balsall Heath West - 12.2%
Kingstanding - 12.4%
South Yardley - 13.5%
Allens Cross - 13.5%
Longbridge & West Heath - 13.9%
Birchfield - 14.1%
Yardley East - 14.1%
Shard End - 14.2%
Sutton Reddicap - 14.2%
Perry Barr - 14.4%
Sutton Roughley - 14.5%
Sutton Mere Green - 14.6%
Bromford & Hodge Hill - 14.6%
Sheldon - 14.7%
Oscott - 14.7%
Erdington - 14.7%
Northfield - 14.7%
Perry Common - 14.8%
Yardley West & Stechford - 14.8%
Heartlands - 15.0%
Glebe Farm & Tile Cross - 15.6%
Stirchley - 15.7%
Druids Heath & Monyhull - 16.2%
Sutton Walmley & Minworth - 16.3%
Stockland Green - 16.4%
Brandwood & King's Heath - 16.4%
Acocks Green - 16.5%
Frankley Great Park - 16.8%
Rubery & Rednal - 16.8%
King's Norton South - 16.9%
Gravelly Hill - 17.0%
North Edgbaston - 17.5%
Handsworth - 17.7%
Hall Green North - 17.9%
Weoley & Selly Oak - 19.3%
Bournbrook & Selly Park - 19.4%
Billesley - 19.4%
Bartley Green - 19.5%
Hall Green South - 20.0%
Sutton Wylde Green - 20.5%
Bournville & Cotteridge - 20.6%
Quinton - 21.4%
Handsworth Wood - 22.0%
King's Norton North - 22.1%
Harborne - 22.5%
Edgbaston - 28.5%
Sutton Vesey - 28.9%
Moseley - 30.3%
Sutton Trinity - 35.9%
Sutton Four Oaks - 42.0%
Contact info@birminghamtreepeople.org.uk if you have ideas for planting trees in your ward.