Aston doesn't give up much at a glance, and there isn't a reliable local read to hang a scene on here — no crime figures, house prices, school ratings, transport counts or green space data have come through for this particular Aston. What's in front of us is really just the surrounding averages for the West Midlands and for England, which tell you about the region rather than about Aston itself. Given that, the honest thing is to say so rather than dress up regional numbers as if they describe this specific place. If you're weighing up Aston, it's worth pulling the postcode-level detail — house prices on the actual streets you're considering, the Ofsted rating of the specific school your children would attend, the crime figures for that ward rather than the wider county — before deciding whether it fits. Broad averages for the West Midlands won't tell you what it's like to stand on that high street.