Bishopsgarth
Suburb · 1,641 residents
46Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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 82, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 14, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Bishopsgarth
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Is Bishopsgarth a good place to live?
Bishopsgarth scores 46/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (82).
It scores lowest on food & drink (14).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Bishopsgarth in North East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bishopsgarth
Bishopsgarth reads as solid, unpretentious terraced and semi-detached streets, the kind of place where the same families have stayed put and the housing turns over slowly rather than churning through renters. It's a working suburb rather than a destination — you won't find restaurants or bars clustering here, and that absence tells its own story about how evenings are spent, mostly at home or elsewhere.
The numbers behind the front doors are the real headline. A median house price of £135,000 sits well below both the regional figure and the national one, and it's actually cheaper than the Stockton-on-Tees average itself — this is one of the more affordable corners of an already affordable authority. Nearly all sales are freehold semis and terraces, no new-build gloss, which is exactly what you'd expect from a settled, established street rather than a developer's showground. Schooling is a mixed picture: Outwood Academy Bishopsgarth is the only secondary in the immediate area and its progress 8 score is well below where you'd want it, though St Mark's Church of England Primary and Hardwick Green Primary Academy give younger families reasonable local options, and Green Gates Academy carries a Good rating for its specialist cohort. With a median age of 42 and a quiet transport offer of two dozen local stops rather than rail links, this leans towards people who've built a life here rather than commuters passing through.
Green space is present but modest — four pockets totalling around eleven hectares, enough for a walk with the dog rather than a day out. The crime picture is the area's soft spot: the overall rate runs more than double the Stockton-on-Tees average, driven heavily by violence and sexual offences, which alone account for close to a third of all recorded incidents, with shoplifting and anti-social behaviour close behind. That's the one grade that jars against an otherwise steady B-band profile — affordability and housing both score strongly, connectivity and transport hold up, but safety needs weighing carefully against those pluses, and health provision locally is another weaker point worth factoring in.