Brandon Wood
Suburb · 202 residents
70Very good
Very good · better than 8 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
- 61% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 54 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 70, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 12% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Brandon Wood
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Brandon Wood a good place to live?
Brandon Wood scores 70/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (77) and safety (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Brandon Wood in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Brandon Wood
Brandon Wood is the kind of place where semi-detached houses sit on quiet plots and the streets feel more like a village than a suburb of a larger town — low-rise, low-density, and clearly built for people who've stopped moving around. With a median age of 50.5 against a national figure closer to 40, this isn't an area geared toward young professionals or students; it's settled, older, and the housing stock reflects that steadiness rather than churn.
There's no rail station or significant transport count in the picture here — just two stops recorded locally — so this reads as a driving suburb rather than a commuter one, and that shapes who ends up living here. Schools are solid without being exceptional: Binley Woods Primary and Wolston St Margaret's CofE Primary are both rated Good, which for a family means dependable rather than dazzling. Housing leans heavily toward semi-detached freehold homes — eleven of the thirty-one recent sales — and at a median of £272,500, prices sit almost exactly on par with the wider Rugby district (a touch above it, at 1.8%) and just under the national median. This is not a place chasing growth; the five-year price trend is flat, and that flatness is the story, not a warning sign.
Green space is generous for the population size — four spaces totalling nearly 74 hectares for just over 2,100 residents — which explains a slower pace of life more than any single venue could. What stands out more, though, is the gap between the area's overall polish and its health grade: everything else scores comfortably (A for safety, A+ for environment, B+ for affordability and schools) except health, which sits at a plain C. That's the one thread worth pulling before deciding — it doesn't erase the rest of the picture, but it's the detail that breaks the pattern. Crime, meanwhile, is low in volume — 108 incidents across the year, dominated by anti-social behaviour and violence categories that are common nationally rather than distinctly local — and the trend is flat, meaning stable rather than either worsening or improving.