Adwick le Street
Town · 18,650 residents
61Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 59% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Affordability scores 74, well above the typical 60
- 95% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 35, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Adwick le Street
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Adwick le Street a good place to live?
Adwick le Street scores 61/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (76) and affordability (74).
It scores lowest on food & drink (35).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Adwick le Street in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Adwick le Street
Adwick le Street reads as pebble-dashed semis and post-war estates, the kind of place where front gardens are neat rather than landscaped and the streets are built for people who've lived there a while. It sits just north of Doncaster, and it feels like a satellite of it — a working town rather than a commuter dormitory, though that's changing at the edges.
The essentials here are straightforward rather than flashy. Adwick Rail Station gives you a direct line into Doncaster and beyond, useful if your work takes you into the city but your budget doesn't stretch to city prices. Schools are solid and consistent rather than exceptional — Adwick Primary School and Carcroft Primary School are both rated Good, as is the secondary, Outwood Academy Adwick, though its progress 8 score sits below the national average, which matters if you're weighing GCSE outcomes heavily. A median age of nearly 40 tells you this isn't a young professionals' enclave; it's family-stage and settled-stage residents in roughly equal measure.
Housing is where the story sharpens. A typical semi-detached here goes for around £155,000 against a national figure well north of double that — this is freehold territory, dominated by three-bed semis and terraces, and a "For Sale" board on these streets means a straightforward family purchase, not a bidding war. Prices sit modestly below even the wider Doncaster borough average and have moved only a little over the past year, so this is a market that holds steady rather than surges. The green space is genuine — 48 pieces of it across the town — enough that a walk doesn't mean driving somewhere first, and the full-fibre coverage here is unusually strong for a town this size, which matters more than it used to for anyone working from home.