Blaydon Burn
Suburb · 288 residents
61Good
Good · better than 6 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 88, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 71, well above the typical 60
- Property market scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
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Is Blaydon Burn a good place to live?
Blaydon Burn scores 61/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (88) and environment (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Blaydon Burn in North East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Blaydon Burn
Blaydon Burn is mostly detached and semi-detached houses on quiet residential roads, the kind of streets where cars outnumber people on a weekday afternoon and there's little passing trade to speak of. It reads as settled rather than up-and-coming — a place people move into and then stay, which the median age north of 40 backs up. There's no high street buzz here, no strip of restaurants pulling in outsiders; this is a dormitory patch of Gateshead, and it looks like one.
The numbers back up that settled feel. Household incomes and deprivation figures both sit in the top tier nationally, and house prices, while modest by southern standards, run noticeably higher than the Gateshead borough average — you're paying a premium to be in this pocket rather than elsewhere in the district. A For Sale board here most often means a freehold terrace or semi changing hands rather than a leasehold flat, and with new-build almost non-existent, what you see is what's been there a while. For schools, St Thomas More Catholic School covers secondary age with a solid, unspectacular Good rating, and St Mary & St Thomas Aquinas Catholic Primary serves the younger end — between them they cover a family's schooling years without needing to look elsewhere. Transport is thinner: a handful of stops rather than a station of its own, so this suits someone who drives or doesn't mind a bus into Newcastle or central Gateshead rather than a rail commuter.