Cherry Orchard
Suburb · 3 residents
49Fair
Fair · better than 1 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 13, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 22, below the typical 60
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Everyday life
The area
Around Cherry Orchard
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Is Cherry Orchard a good place to live?
Cherry Orchard scores 49/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is affordability (68).
It scores lowest on health (13) and food & drink (22).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Cherry Orchard in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Cherry Orchard
Cherry Orchard is a street of terraced brick homes and a fair few semis, the kind of place where a For Sale board usually says "freehold" and means it — most sales here go that way, with only the odd leasehold flat breaking the pattern. It sits dense for a suburb, noticeably more packed-in than the West Midlands norm, but nothing about the streetscape shouts newbuild sheen: nobody's putting up new stock here, this is settled, established housing turning over slowly and quietly.
On paper this is a place that scores well against its own region without quite matching the country as a whole — decile 7 for deprivation, comfortably above the Sandwell average it sits inside, though the income picture is more middling. House prices tell a similar story: a typical sale here lands around £235,000, close to eleven per cent above the wider Sandwell figure, but still someway shy of the national median. Terraced homes trade in the low-to-mid two-hundreds, detached ones push well past that. Rent, at just under £950 a month, actually undercuts the national average, which is unusual and worth noting if you're comparing renting against buying. The transport grade is the flat note in an otherwise decent chord — a C where almost everything else reads B or better — so if your work depends on a fast, frequent rail link, look closely at what's actually on offer before assuming it matches the rest of the profile.