It lies immediately south-west of Birmingham city centre, and was historically in Warwickshire.

Edgbaston means "village of a man called Ecgbald", from the Old English personal name + tun "farm".

The name was recorded as a village known as Celboldistane in the Hundred of Coleshill in the 1086 Domesday Book[3] until at least 1139, wrongly suggesting that Old English stān "stone, rock" is the final element of the name.

[5] The United Kingdom Census 2001 found that 20,749 people were living in the Birmingham City Council ward of Edgbaston, in 8,666 households.

Like the city of Birmingham, Edgbaston had a slightly higher proportion of females, at 50.1%, to males.

At 14.8%, Edgbaston had a lower proportion of people of a pensionable age than the rest of Birmingham (16.7%).

The area also has a world class tennis venue, the Edgbaston Priory Club.

The tournament is part of the WTA Tour and wins count towards world rankings.

Adjoining the university gardens is Edgbaston Pool (not to be confused with the reservoir) which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.

Deer's Leap Wood is a Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation in the former Mitchells & Butlers (brewery) land in the north part of Edgbaston.

Edgbaston contains the only Grade I listed domestic building in Birmingham, an Arts & Crafts house at 21 Yateley Road, designed by Herbert Tudor Buckland, and built for his own use.

[13] Birmingham Edgbaston is a constituency, and its Member of Parliament (MP) is Labour's Preet Gill.

Previous MPs included Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who was born in Edgbaston.

The second is Five Ways railway station in the north of the ward on the city's Middle Ring Road.

This was constructed and opened in the 1790s and is now used mainly for leisure and recreational purposes as opposed to its original industrial usage.

The A456 Hagley Road runs through the north of Edgbaston and gives a relatively swift link with the city centre as well as further away places including Halesowen, Kidderminster and Hereford.

The nearest public libraries to the area are in Harborne, Selly Oak and Balsall Heath, whilst the University of Birmingham main library (which members of the public can join for a fee) is in the area.

Edgbaston Village tram stop opened as the terminus of the West Midlands Metro in July 2022.

[15][16][17] Here is a list of notable residents, many of whom have had blue plaques erected on their former houses by The Birmingham Civic Society: