Baddeley Green
Neighbourhood · 3,353 residents
60Good
Good · better than 5 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Affordability scores 82, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 39 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Food & drink scores 29, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Baddeley Green
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Is Baddeley Green a good place to live?
Baddeley Green scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (82) and safety (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (29).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Baddeley Green in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Baddeley Green
Streets here run to pebble-dashed semis and post-war detached houses, front gardens kept tidy rather than styled, cars on the drive rather than the kerb — this is Stoke-on-Trent's quieter residential edge, not a place with a high street to speak of. The average age tips towards 47, noticeably older than the national suburb norm, and that shows in the pace: settled, unhurried, more caravan-on-the-drive than café culture.
House prices are the standout number, and it's worth sitting with it: a median around £184,000 against a national figure closer to £281,000 puts Baddeley Green among the more affordable corners of England, even though it actually runs about 37% above the Stoke-on-Trent average itself — this is one of the pricier pockets of the city, just a cheap one nationally. Detached houses dominate what sells here, freehold almost exclusively, and a For Sale board on one of these roads is overwhelmingly likely to be advertising a family-sized freehold house rather than a flat or a leasehold flat-share. Schooling is thin on the ground — Greenways Primary Academy is the one sampled school locally, an academy converter with 235 pupils — so families here are likely sending children slightly further afield for secondary options, and it's worth checking current Ofsted judgements directly rather than assuming. Transport is modest rather than a selling point: twenty local stops but no rail station recorded in the immediate data, so this reads as a driving suburb, not a commuter-rail one.