Claverhouse
Suburb · 3,435 residents
45Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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
- Road noise reaches 57% of the area
- Food & drink scores 25, below the typical 60
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Is Claverhouse a good place to live?
Claverhouse scores 45/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is environment (69).
It scores lowest on food & drink (25) and health (30).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Claverhouse in Scotland, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Claverhouse
Claverhouse sits on the edge of Dundee with the kind of streetscape that doesn't announce itself — low-rise housing, gardens, a fair amount of green between the buildings, and none of the retail-strip clutter you'd get closer to the city centre. It reads as residential first and foremost, the sort of place people drive through rather than out to.
The housing here tells its own story before you even look at a price board: a median house price a little over £140,000 puts Claverhouse well below what you'd pay across much of Scotland's central belt, and against a mid-table position on the Scottish deprivation index — decile 5 — that combination suggests a place that's neither struggling nor especially affluent, just steady. Council tax band D costs more here than the Scottish average, which is worth weighing against those lower purchase prices when you're doing the sums on moving in. With one school recorded for the area, families will want to look at options a little further out rather than assuming everything's on the doorstep, and that single-school picture is really the main practical constraint to plan around.
Green space is where Claverhouse quietly overperforms — seven separate spaces adding up to nearly 93 hectares is a serious amount of open ground for a suburb of this size, and it shows in the grades: environment comes back as exceptional, well above the Scottish norm, and connectivity is strong too, with over four in five properties on full-fibre broadband, so working from home here is a realistic, comfortable option. The overall picture — a strong B, with safety also coming in above average — is the kind of area that's pleasant to simply exist in day to day. The one figure that breaks the pattern is health, which lands well below where everything else sits; it's worth digging into local GP access and waiting times before you commit, because it doesn't fit the otherwise settled, comfortable character of the place. Nightlife is modest, which will read as either a relief or a limitation depending on what you're after — this isn't an area built around evenings out.