Cliftonville
Suburb · 408 residents
60Good
Good · better than 5 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- 81% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Infrastructure scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Cliftonville
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Is Cliftonville a good place to live?
Cliftonville scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (84).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Cliftonville in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Cliftonville
Cliftonville's streets are a mix of solid Victorian and Edwardian houses — the kind with bay windows and generous room counts — sitting alongside a scatter of conversions and flats near the seafront. It reads as settled rather than transient: the sort of place where people who bought decades ago are still there, and the median age nudging 50 tells you this isn't a young professional's postcode. There's a quietness to it that some will find restful and others might find a bit sleepy.
Housing here leans firmly toward detached and terraced houses bought outright as freeholds — 23 of the 24 recent sales were freehold, which is the classic signature of an established seaside suburb rather than a new-build estate. A median sale price around £307,500 sits close to the national figure and only modestly above the wider Thanet district, so a "For Sale" board here isn't announcing a premium postcode — it's announcing ordinary, attainable family housing, with detached homes actually going for less than the national average for that type while terraces fetch a bit more. On the affordability and housing grades this all scores well, comfortably above the country-wide norm, and that's really the spine of the place: a decile 6 area, neither deprived nor especially wealthy, where your money buys more house than it would across most of the South East.
Green space and the coast do a lot of the work for day-to-day life — with over 11 hectares of green space per thousand people, close to the national average, there's room to walk without fighting for it. Connectivity is the one grade that dips against the otherwise strong pattern here — a C+ alongside B+ ratings for safety, environment and housing — so this isn't a place to move to if fast broadband or transport links are non-negotiable. Crime sits low in absolute terms, just 14 incidents logged in the past year, with violence and anti-social behaviour the two categories that dominate the mix, as they do almost everywhere; the trend is flat, not worsening, which matters more than the raw count.