Brookend
Suburb · 93 residents
77Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- 2 GP practices within a short walk
- Food & drink scores 85, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 86 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 42% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Brookend
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Brookend a good place to live?
Brookend scores 77/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (92) and food & drink (85).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Brookend in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Brookend
Brookend sits tight and dense for its size — flats outnumber houses on the sales register, terraces and semis filling in the gaps, and the streets read more like a compact inner pocket than a village green. This is not a place with much room to spread out: one green space of just over two hectares serves the whole area, and at over 1,300 people per square kilometre, it's noticeably more packed than the regional average, though still short of the sort of density you'd get in the West Midlands' bigger cities.
The age profile tells you plenty before you've walked the length of the street — a median age near 53 is well above both the regional and national norm, which means this reads less as a young-family starter suburb and more as a settled, long-tenure sort of place. Ashfield Park Primary School serves the area, a solid community school for the 287 or so children it caters for, though no Ofsted rating is on record to draw a conclusion from. Housing skews toward flats under leasehold, with freeholds a minority stake in the sales mix — the kind of tenure split you'd see on a For Sale board that says "compact, low-maintenance, not a house with a garage." At a median around £190,000, Brookend is priced well below both the county and national medians, sitting close to the bottom decile nationally for value — a genuinely affordable corner, and one where prices, per the affordability grade, hold their own against the wider picture without straining anyone's mortgage.
The crime figures need a steady hand: only nine incidents in the past year is a small number in absolute terms, and the safety grade here is the standout — an A, the strongest mark in the whole profile, and comfortably ahead of the safety picture across Herefordshire as a whole, despite what looks like an alarming jump in the raw comparison to the parent authority's crime rate. That divergence is really a quirk of small numbers in a small population rather than a lived reality of danger; violence and anti-social behaviour make up the bulk of what's recorded, but the base is so low that a handful of incidents swing the percentages hard. Don't let the maths startle you more than the streets would.