Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North

2025 parliamentary constituency

Date elected

15th Jul 2004

Place

Constituency history

This constituency was introduced at the July 2024 general election, and replaced the previous three new constituencies:

Birmingham, Hodge Hill

Covered approximately 62% of this new constituency’s population, and 77% of this new constituency’s area.

Birmingham, Yardley

Covered approximately 14% of this new constituency’s population, and 15% of this new constituency’s area.

Meriden

Covered approximately 21% of this new constituency’s population, and 4% of this new constituency’s area.

Constituency age distribution

This area National average
Ages 0 - 15 25.9% 18.3%
Ages 16 - 24 12.9% 10.5%
Ages 25 - 34 13.9% 13.2%
Ages 35 - 49 18.8% 19.1%
Ages 50 - 64 15.9% 19.8%
Ages 65 and over 12.6% 19.1%

Constituency Population

122,000

102,977.2 national average

Current Industry

This area National average
Agriculture, energy and water 0.4% 1.1%
Construction 2.5% 4.1%
Distribution, hotels and restaurants 8.2% 9.2%
Financial, real estate, professional and administrative activities 4.8% 7.9%
Manufacturing 3.8% 3.5%
Does not apply 64.3% 53.4%
Other 0.9% 2.1%
Public administration, education and health 10.7% 14.3%
Transport and communication 4.3% 4.4%

Current Occupation

This area National average
Administrative and secretarial occupations 3.5% 4.3%
Associate professional and technical occupations 3.3% 6.1%
Caring, leisure and other service occupations 4.3% 4.4%
Elementary occupations 5.8% 4.8%
Managers, directors and senior officials 2.5% 6.0%
Does not apply 64.3% 53.4%
Process, plant and machine operatives 4.6% 3.2%
Professional occupations 4.7% 9.4%
Sales and customer service occupations 3.4% 3.5%
Skilled trades occupations 3.5% 4.8%

Disabled under the Equality Act

18.4%

17.7% national average

Ethnicity

This area National average
Asian / Asian British 34.1% 8.1%
Mixed / Multiple ethnic groups 4.9% 2.8%
Other ethnic groups 3.5% 1.8%
Other White 3.7% 6.3%
White British 46.0% 77.5%

General Health

This area National average
Bad or very bad health 6.8% 5.3%
Fair health 13.9% 12.8%
Very good or good health 79.3% 81.9%

Have missed a bill payment in the last six months

50.0%

31.5% national average

Have missed a credit payment in the last six months

43.6%

23.6% national average

Have missed a rent payment in the last six months

39.1%

19.0% national average

Have not been able to afford to turn the heating on at home when they have felt cold in the past month

46.6%

37.5% national average

Main Language

This area National average
African languages 1.1% 0.3%
Asian languages 8.0% 3.0%
English or Welsh 83.3% 88.9%
European languages (EU) 2.5% 3.8%
Does not apply 4.3% 3.1%
North or South American languages 0% 0.0%
Oceanic or Australian languages 0% 0.0%
Any other languages 0.7% 0.6%
Other European languages (non-EU) 0.1% 0.1%
Any other UK languages 0.0% 0.0%
Sign and supported languages 0.1% 0.0%

Travel to work method

This area National average
Bicycle 0.4% 0.9%
Bus, minibus or coach 3.7% 1.8%
Driving a car or van 19.7% 21.3%
On foot 1.9% 3.5%
Work mainly at or from home 6.0% 14.5%
Underground, metro, light rail, tram 0.0% 0.7%
Motorcycle, scooter or moped 0.1% 0.2%
Not in employment or aged 15 years and under 64.3% 53.4%
Other method of travel to work 0.5% 0.5%
Passenger in a car or van 2.3% 1.8%
Taxi 0.7% 0.3%
Train 0.4% 0.8%

Worried about having to use a foodbank in the next year

41.7%

28.7% national average

Worried about not being able to afford their mortgage or rent in the next year

47.2%

40.0% national average

Country of the UK

England

Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)

1

2.8 national average

Coastal constituency

0%

Public opinion

Do you think immigration has generally enriched or undermined society?

This area National average
Enriched 39.2% 37.2%
Neither 11.3% 12.5%
Undermined 49.5% 47.3%

Should the welfare system be expanded to help more people, or reduced to make benefits harder to get?

This area National average
Expanded 41.9% 34.1%
Neither 9.5% 11.5%
Reduced 48.6% 51.5%

Would you be comfortable paying more tax, if it meant more money were invested in public services like the NHS and education?

This area National average
Comfortable 43.2% 44.3%
Neither 7.0% 6.0%
Uncomfortable 49.8% 46.8%

Would you be comfortable with government debt going up, provided that money were invested in the economy and local services?

This area National average
Comfortable 58.2% 52.5%
Neither 8.3% 7.6%
Uncomfortable 33.5% 37.0%

Would you support or oppose the building of new housing in your area?

This area National average
Neither 20.3% 21.1%
Oppose 12.6% 17.8%
Support 67.2% 58.2%

Second placed party at most recent election

WPB

Loss of nature and destruction of the environment should be one of the most important concerns for the country

This area National average
Net agree 68.3% 72.6%
Net disagree 8.2% 8.7%
Strongly agree 31.2% 33.8%
Partly agree 37.1% 38.8%
Neither agree nor disagree 23.5% 18.7%
Partly disagree 5.9% 5.9%
Strongly disagree 3.0% 2.7%

Policies for tackling the cost of living crisis should go hand in hand with policies to tackle the climate crisis

This area National average
Net agree 55.0% 58.9%
Net disagree 15.1% 17.6%
Strongly agree 22.1% 24.2%
Somewhat agree 32.2% 34.7%
Neither agree nor disagree 29.8% 23.4%
Somewhat disagree 9.7% 10.5%
Strongly disagree 6.2% 7.1%

Tackling climate change should / should not be one of the Government’s biggest priorities right now

This area National average
Should be a priority 52.7% 57.5%
Should not be a priority 47.3% 42.5%

Neither support nor oppose Net Zero

30%

26.2% national average

Believe that the government should continue the block on onshore wind development

28.6%

24.3% national average

Believe that the government should use wind and solar farms to reduce energy bills

81.3%

84.3% national average

Believe the government has increased investment in renewables over the past 5 years

51.2%

52.0% national average

Predicted winning party at next general election

Reform UK

This area National average
Labour 17% 22.5%
Conservative 13% 20.4%
Liberal Democrat 4% 14.7%
Reform 36% 28.2%
Green 8% 8.1%
Other 21% 4.6%

Movement

Churches that have declared a climate emergency

0

0.2 national average

Number of RSPB Reserves

0

0.3 national average

Number of Save the Children shops

0

0.2 national average

Number of Wildlife Trusts Reserves

0

2.4 national average

Number of Women’s Institute groups