College Estate
Suburb · 40 residents
68Good
Good · better than 8 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 50 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Property market scores 77, 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 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around College Estate
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is College Estate a good place to live?
College Estate scores 68/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (77) and property market (77).
It scores lowest on food & drink (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for College Estate in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of College Estate
Detached houses on generous plots, a scattering of semis and terraces filling the gaps, and hardly anyone about — College Estate reads as a quiet, spread-out pocket of Herefordshire rather than a typical West Midlands suburb. With only 119 people counted here, this is a small, low-density corner, and the streetscape backs that up: freehold Detached homes dominate the sales mix, the sort of place where a For Sale board means a family house with room to breathe rather than a flat chain.
The numbers back up the feel of quiet security, mostly. Housing here earns a top-tier grade, and at a median of £285,000 it sits close to the county average and only just above the wider Herefordshire figure — this isn't a premium enclave, more a comfortable, unremarkable slice of a well-off-ish area (income and deprivation figures put it solidly mid-to-upper table nationally, decile 8 for deprivation). Schools are graded solidly rather than spectacularly, and there's no rail station or Outstanding school named in what's on record for this pocket, so anyone commuting by train will be looking beyond the estate itself. The median age of 37.5, a touch younger than the national average, suggests working-age households and families rather than a retirement pocket.
Green space allowance here runs a little ahead of both the regional and national averages per head, so gardens and open outlooks are part of the deal even without a marquee park to point to. Broadband is solid too — full-fibre coverage above 80% means working from one of those detached houses is a realistic, comfortable option. The one note that jars against the otherwise calm picture is crime: the headline count of six incidents sounds trivial, but the underlying rate runs far hotter than the Herefordshire average, driven overwhelmingly by violence and sexual offences, which make up nearly half of all recorded crime here. It's graded as a strength overall and trending flat rather than worsening, so this isn't a place visibly sliding — but it's worth sitting with rather than skating past, especially given how small and quiet the population otherwise is.