Arleston
Suburb · 26 residents
49Fair
Fair · better than 1 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 69% of the area
- Health scores 23, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Arleston a good place to live?
Arleston scores 49/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is affordability (67).
It scores lowest on health (23) and food & drink (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Arleston in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Arleston
Arleston reads as a solid, unremarkable stretch of Telford — pebble-dashed semis, front gardens rather than front doors onto the pavement, and the kind of streets where cars outnumber people at most hours. It's not a place built to impress a visitor; it's built for people who already live here to get on with things.
The housing picture tells you most of what you need to know before you even view a property. Sales here are almost entirely semi-detached and entirely freehold, with a median sale price around £190,000 — noticeably below the Telford and Wrekin average and well under the national median. A "For Sale" board on an Arleston street is advertising an ordinary family house you own outright, not a flat you'll be paying a service charge on. Rents sit under £900 a month, again cheaper than the regional norm, which fits a population with a median age of 37 — settled adults and young families rather than students or retirees. Schooling is the soft spot in that picture: the overall grade profile here is solid (B for the area as a whole, B+ on housing and safety) but schools alone score only C+, so it's worth checking specific catchments rather than assuming quality by postcode.
Crime is the one figure that needs unpacking rather than taking at face value. The area's own three-month tally looks negligible, but the twelve-month breakdown shows violence and sexual offences and shoplifting as the two dominant categories, each making up close to three in ten recorded incidents — a pattern typical of a suburb with a retail strip nearby rather than a sign of a dangerous street. The safety grade sits at B+ and the trend is flat, meaning nothing is getting worse, but the comparison against the parent authority's crime rate is skewed by how small Arleston's own population base is, so it's better read as "in line with a fairly ordinary Telford suburb" than as a data point to panic over.