Beggarington Hill
Neighbourhood · 19 residents
51Fair
Fair · better than 2 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
- Affordability scores 70, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 91% of the area
- Health scores 29, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Beggarington Hill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Beggarington Hill a good place to live?
Beggarington Hill scores 51/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (70).
It scores lowest on health (29).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Beggarington Hill in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Beggarington Hill
Beggarington Hill is a small pocket of semi-detached houses and quiet streets rather than a high street in its own right — the kind of place where you notice hedges before you notice shops. With a median age north of 47, this reads as a settled, established community rather than a starter-home suburb; the sort of spot where people move in and stay, not pass through on their way up the ladder.
For schooling, Hill Top Primary Academy carries a Good rating and, at 232 pupils, has the feel of a proper neighbourhood school rather than an exam factory. Housing here leans heavily semi-detached and entirely freehold — a For Sale board on this street is telling you "family home, no chain complications, no leasehold small print." Prices sit a touch below the city figure for Leeds, and well under the national and regional averages once you look at the percentile spread, so this isn't a stretch-to-afford postcode; it's a comfortable, unshowy one, sitting in the eighth income decile nationally, which puts it among the less deprived areas in the country without being anywhere near the top.
Green space and eating out don't dominate the picture here — this isn't a place built around a weekend circuit of cafés and parks, and the data doesn't pretend otherwise. What it does offer is a strong broadband backbone, with full-fibre coverage above 92%, which matters more than it sounds for anyone working from home some of the week. On safety, the grade pattern is otherwise solid — B+ for affordability, schools and connectivity, A for environment — with an out-of-step B for both health and safety sitting in the middle of all that green. The crime count itself is tiny in absolute terms, and shoplifting and violence-and-sexual-offences make up the bulk of it, categories that often reflect a small retail cluster or through-road rather than residential risk; the trend is flat, so nothing is worsening, but the sheer scale of the reported "4654% above Leeds" crime-rate comparison is almost certainly an artefact of a very small local population base rather than a lived reality, and worth reading with a raised eyebrow rather than alarm.