Beveley in West Midlands has a Check Local Score of 60/100 (good), drawn from official data on safety, schools, transport, housing, amenities and the local environment, each measured against the national average — a score of 60 is typical for the country.
Beveley is a dense pocket of Telford and Wrekin, the kind of place where detached houses sit close enough to their neighbours that you notice population density more than you'd expect for a suburb of this size. It reads as a mixed, settled housing patch rather than a high street destination — no strip of restaurants or bars to speak of, just streets of family homes with a fair number of flats mixed through.
A For Sale board here most often says detached, freehold, and comfortably below the going rate elsewhere — the median sale price of £185,000 sits well under both the national and West Midlands norms, and even the detached homes trade around £261,000 against a national detached median of £420,000. Against the wider Telford and Wrekin authority, prices actually run about 10% lower, which for a decile-6 area (a touch better-off than average nationally, though income here sits lower, in the third decile) tells you this is a place where housing costs are genuinely modest rather than a bargain-in-disguise. Ofsted quality and school data are thin in what's available, so it's hard to say much about the schools picture beyond a C+ grade that stands out against stronger marks elsewhere in the profile — connectivity, transport and housing all grade comfortably above the safety and affordability baseline, while schools lag behind. That contrast is worth sitting with if education is a priority.
Green space and leisure venues aren't named in what's on record here, so it's hard to sketch the weekend rhythm with any confidence — what the numbers do show is a young population, median age 29.4 against a national 40.4, which points to a working-age, possibly single-and-sharing demographic rather than a retirement or heavy-family draw. Broadband is decent without being exceptional, with full fibre reaching under half of homes, so remote working is workable but not universal.
The safety picture needs care with the numbers: 11 crimes recorded look reassuring in isolation, but the crime rate here runs over ten times higher than the Telford and Wrekin average, and violence and sexual offences alone account for over 40% of the breakdown, well ahead of anti-social behaviour and theft. That's the quiet spine of this profile — a B+ safety grade sitting on a small population base where raw counts can swing the rate hard, so it's worth reading as a flag to check further rather than a verdict in itself. Put together, Beveley suits someone drawn to affordable, freehold housing in a compact, younger, well-connected corner of Telford, so long as they've weighed that safety signal against their own tolerance for risk rather than the headline grade alone.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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