Bole Hill
Suburb · 99 residents
54Fair
Fair · better than 3 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 75, well above the typical 60
- 95% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
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- Flood risk: 23% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Road noise reaches 96% of the area
- Food & drink scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Bole Hill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Bole Hill a good place to live?
Bole Hill scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (75) and infrastructure (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 Bole Hill in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bole Hill
Bole Hill is pebble-dashed semis and privet hedges, the kind of street where the cars parked outside are a few years old and well kept rather than new. It sits within Rotherham, and it reads as a settled, working rather than aspirational corner of it — nobody's flipping houses here, and the streetscape has that steady, unchanged-in-a-decade quality that either reassures you or doesn't.
The numbers back up that impression of modesty. A median house price around £142,000 is well under both the regional figure and the national one, and even against Rotherham itself this is cheaper ground, not pricier — so a For Sale board here is advertising an affordable foothold, not a status symbol. That affordability reads clearly on the street: it's overwhelmingly semi-detached and freehold, the kind of stock first-time buyers and long-stay owners both gravitate to rather than landlords. Income and deprivation deciles sit in the middle-low range nationally, which lines up with a median age over 42 — this isn't a place full of young professionals chasing a fast commute, it's a place people settle into. Schools are a mixed bag rather than a selling point: Catcliffe Primary, Treeton Church of England Primary and Brinsworth Whitehill Primary all carry Good ratings, solid and unremarkable, and Oakwood High School serves as the secondary with a slightly negative progress score — nothing alarming, but nothing to build a decision around either.