Coalbrookdale
Suburb · 20 residents
57Good
Good · better than 4 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
- Affordability scores 80, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 75, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Infrastructure scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Coalbrookdale
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Coalbrookdale a good place to live?
Coalbrookdale scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (80) and environment (75).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Coalbrookdale in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Coalbrookdale
Coalbrookdale still looks like what it was: a settlement built into a wooded gorge, stone and brick cottages stacked on steep lanes, the ironworks heritage doing the work that a conventional high street would elsewhere. There isn't much passing trade here, and it shows in the quiet — this is a place people move to, not through, and the age profile backs that up, with a median age approaching 50 pulling it well above the national average. You get the sense of a settled population rather than a churning one, which the tiny turnover in the property market seems to confirm.
Housing here is a case study in small and specific: recent sales have been almost entirely semi-detached freeholds, no leasehold complications, no new-build estates diluting the stock. The median price sits meaningfully below both the regional and national medians, which sounds like a bargain until you notice the sample is thin — this is a handful of transactions a year, not a liquid market, so a For Sale board here tells you more about the character of the seller than about a trend. On paper the affordability grade is about as good as it gets, and against the wider Telford and Wrekin authority prices actually run a little lower, so the gorge's postcode premium is more myth than reality on the numbers alone.
The school data is sparse enough that it's not worth building a family narrative around — what's on record is a small independent special school, not a mainstream secondary, so anyone with school-age children will want to look at options in surrounding Telford rather than assume Coalbrookdale supplies its own. Connectivity is the other soft spot: broadband coverage is patchy by full-fibre standards and the connectivity grade is the one conspicuously weak mark in an otherwise solid set — everything else sits at B or above, safety included, which makes the D+ stand out as the thing to actually budget for if you work from home. Crime overall is low in absolute terms, just a handful of incidents across a year, dominated by violence and anti-social behaviour categories that in a population this small can swing a headline rate a long way without meaning much on the ground; the trend is flat, not worsening.