Ball Haye Green
Suburb · 392 residents
73Very good
Very good · better than 9 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 2 GP practices within a short walk
- Food & drink scores 81, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 66 per 1,000 people a year against 100
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Ball Haye Green
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Ball Haye Green a good place to live?
Ball Haye Green scores 73/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (94) and food & drink (81).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ball Haye Green in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ball Haye Green
Terraced rows dominate the streets here, red-brick and close-set, with the odd semi breaking up the pattern — this is Staffordshire Moorlands housing stock, not the polished West Midlands suburb you might be picturing. Ball Haye Green sits on the edge of Leek, and it reads as settled rather than transitional: a median age into the mid-forties, a population small enough that it barely registers as more than a few streets' worth of neighbours. It's not a place people move to for excitement. It's a place people stay.
The affordability story is the one worth sitting with. A median sale price around £171,000 is well below both the regional and national norms, and the parent comparison confirms it — homes here sell for over a fifth less than the Staffordshire Moorlands average. Terraced houses actually sell for less locally than the same property type does nationally, so a For Sale board here is advertising something rare: a freehold terrace, the dominant tenure by a wide margin, at a price that would barely get you a flat further south. That affordability sits against a lower income decile for the area, which is the honest trade-off — cheaper housing, but a labour market and earnings picture that lag the national spread.
Safety is the standout in the grade pattern, and it's worth noticing precisely because everything else here sits in solid-but-unremarkable territory — schools, transport, health all land in the same comfortable middle band, while safety alone pushes higher. Crime is dominated by violence and anti-social behaviour categories, as it is almost everywhere, but the trend is flat and the overall count is low for a suburb of this size. Green space is generously provided for relative to both regional and national averages, which matters more in a place like this than a long restaurant list would — this isn't an area built around nightlife or dining out, it's one built around modest gardens, dog walks, and a slower pace. Full-fibre coverage sits at a respectable but not exceptional level, so remote workers should check their specific street rather than assume.