Birmingham Restaurant Inspection Data: Ratings, Areas & Freshness
A live, data-backed report on Birmingham restaurant inspection results: current rating distribution, record freshness, local-area concentrations and repeated-name locations.
Live report. The measurements below are calculated from Cooked’s current copy of the official UK Food Standards Agency + West Midlands councils feed and refresh after new data is ingested.
How to read this report
One row means one operating establishment or permit in the source—not necessarily one company. A restaurant with several separately permitted counters can appear more than once, while a business the authority marks as gone is excluded. Health-department closures remain included because they are active inspection facts.
“Clean”, “mid” and “cooked” are Cooked’s comparison bands; the authority’s own rating remains the source of truth. the FSA rates 0–5 (higher is better): clean = 4 or 5, mid = 3, cooked = 2 or below.
UK Food Standards Agency + West Midlands councils does not publish itemized findings in this feed, so this report never guesses what an inspector found. The local-area table uses only areas with a meaningful rated sample, and the repeated-name table describes matching public names rather than claiming common ownership.
Citywide snapshot
Calculated from the official feed as stored by Cooked on 7 October 2026.
| Current band | Records | Share of rated |
|---|---|---|
| Clean | 10,504 | 83.1% |
| Mid | 1,255 | 9.9% |
| Cooked | 880 | 7% |
| Unknown / unrated | 2,925 | excluded from rated shares |
15,564 operating records are in the source snapshot; 12,639 carry a current clean, mid or cooked result.
How fresh are the records?
2,302 records (14.8%) have an inspection or rating date in the last 180 days; 4,982 (32%) are within one year. The median latest-record age is 472 days.
Where cooked records are most concentrated
This ranks only local areas with at least 20 rated records and at least one cooked result. It is a current-record comparison, not a claim about every meal or every business in the area.
| Area | Cooked | Rated | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham (B9) | 20 | 73 | 27.4% |
| Balsall Heath / Sparkbrook (B12) | 48 | 220 | 21.8% |
| Digbeth (B5) | 59 | 274 | 21.5% |
| Birmingham (B19) | 19 | 90 | 21.1% |
| Birmingham (B21) | 29 | 145 | 20% |
Repeated public names with cooked locations
These are exact same-name groups with at least three operating locations, at least two rated locations and at least one cooked result. A shared municipal name does not prove shared ownership.
| Public name | Clean | Mid | Cooked | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dixy chicken | 19 | 7 | 9 | 38 |
| Classic fish bar | 2 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| Chicken.com | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| Uk Fried Chicken | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| DFC Chicken | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
Corrections and updates
Published 9 August 2026. No corrections recorded.