Coalpit Hill
Suburb · 793 residents
62Good
Good · better than 6 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
- Environment scores 89, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 78, 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
- Food & drink scores 21, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Coalpit Hill
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Is Coalpit Hill a good place to live?
Coalpit Hill scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (89) and affordability (78).
It scores lowest on food & drink (21).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Coalpit Hill in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Coalpit Hill
Detached houses on generous plots, hedges rather than fences, and the kind of quiet that comes from very few people passing through — that's the first impression of Coalpit Hill. It's a small suburb, barely three hundred people, and the streets read as settled rather than transient: this is a place people move to and then stay, not a stopover.
That sense of settledness shows up hardest in the age profile. The median age here sits close to fifteen years above the national figure, and a For Sale board on this street is overwhelmingly likely to say "detached, freehold" — eight of the last seventeen sales were detached, the rest mostly semis, and every single one freehold, no leasehold complications, no new-build estates diluting the mix. Housing here is priced roughly a quarter above the wider Newcastle-under-Lyme district, though still well under the national median, which puts it in a modest, comfortable band rather than an expensive one. Schooling and rail data aren't part of the picture for this particular pocket, so it's hard to say who's commuting and to where — but with an older population and only a handful of transport stops serving the area, this doesn't read as a young-family commuter belt so much as a settled, low-turnover corner where people have often been for decades.
Green space is limited but present — two spaces totalling just over fourteen hectares, enough for a dog walk or a Sunday stretch of the legs rather than a proper day out, and there's nothing in the way of restaurants or venues to build a weekend around locally; eating out means going elsewhere. The area's overall grades cluster in the B and A range — strong on environment, affordability and connectivity — which makes the C for nightlife the outlier rather than the norm: this is not a place that comes alive after dark, and it isn't trying to be. Safety sits solidly mid-table, described as flat rather than improving or worsening, and while violence and sexual offences account for nearly half the limited crime recorded, the raw count is low enough that it reads more as a category quirk in small numbers than a pattern to worry about.