Broomgrove
Suburb · 3,453 residents
41Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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
- Environment scores 73, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 26, below the typical 60
- Schools scores 27, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Broomgrove
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Broomgrove a good place to live?
Broomgrove scores 41/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (26) and schools (27).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Broomgrove in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Broomgrove
Terraced Victorian streets, packed tight, dominate the walk through Broomgrove — the kind of dense, tightly-packed housing that tells you this is a place people have lived in for generations rather than moved to recently. Rows of freehold terraces line up close to the pavement, and the density here is genuinely higher than the regional norm, which shows in the parking, the corner shops, and the sense that everything is within reach of everything else. It doesn't read as smart or polished, and it isn't trying to.
For a household weighing this up, the numbers sit in a fairly narrow, unglamorous band. A median house price around £285,000 is close to the national figure and actually a touch above what you'd pay in Hastings overall, even though this sits among the more deprived areas nationally on the wider deprivation measures. Terraced homes dominate sales here, freehold overwhelmingly so, and that combination — modest price, secure tenure, small footprint — is what a For Sale board on these streets is really telling you: a starter or downsizer's house, not a family pile. Transport is the one area that clearly overperforms: with Ore Rail Station serving the area and 36 local stops, getting around without a car is realistic, which is a genuine point in its favour. Schools are more mixed — Torfield's specialist provision sits alongside Ark Castledown Primary Academy, rated Good, but the area's only mainstream primary in the sample, The Baird Primary Academy, is rated Requires Improvement, and the overall schools grade is the weak link in an otherwise solid pattern of B grades.