Broad Meadow
Suburb · 1,408 residents
57Good
Good · better than 4 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
- 86% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Affordability scores 71, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 22, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Broad Meadow
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Broad Meadow a good place to live?
Broad Meadow scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (80) and affordability (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (22).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Broad Meadow in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Broad Meadow
Broad Meadow is terraced streets and semis, mostly, the kind of solid Victorian-and-postwar housing stock you find across the Chesterton side of Newcastle-under-Lyme, with corner shops rather than chain coffee outlets setting the tone of the high street. It reads as a working, lived-in place rather than one dressed up for visitors, and the people you'll see on the street skew towards long-term residents rather than transient renters.
The numbers behind the streetscape tell a consistent story: this is a firmly working-class corner of the country, sitting in the bottom income decile nationally and only just above the most deprived areas on the broader deprivation measure. Housing reflects that directly — a For Sale board here is overwhelmingly likely to be a freehold terrace or semi, not a leasehold flat, and with a median house price around £137,500 (against £190,000 across Newcastle-under-Lyme itself and £281,000 nationally) this is one of the more affordable pockets you'll find anywhere in the region. Schooling is thin on the ground — just one school actually sits within Broad Meadow — but Chesterton Community Sports College and Chesterton Primary, both rated Good, cover secondary and primary needs close by, alongside Churchfields Primary. There's no rail station in the data here, so this isn't a place built around a commute to a mainline platform; local bus stops (sixteen of them) are what actually move people around.