Dawdon
Suburb · 39 residents
67Good
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
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- Food & drink scores 83, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 81, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 10% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Dawdon
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Dawdon a good place to live?
Dawdon scores 67/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (84) and food & drink (83).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Dawdon in North East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Dawdon
Terraced streets dominate here, tight rows of Freehold houses that change hands more often than the national average, and the sale boards you see are almost always on the same kind of home. This is a former colliery suburb built for working families, and it still reads that way: modest brick terraces, few flats, almost no new-build. It's not a place styled for passers-through — it's a place people settle into and stay.
The affordability picture is the standout. A typical terrace here sells for under £100,000, against a national terrace median well over double that, and the area sits 12% cheaper than the County Durham average itself — which is already one of the less expensive parts of the country. That combination of a low income decile and a low deprivation decile alongside a genuinely strong affordability grade tells you who this suits financially: it's accessible in a way that much of England simply isn't, though wages and opportunity locally sit well below the national norm too, so the low prices reflect the local economy as much as any bargain. Council tax at Band D runs close to the regional norm, so outgoings won't spring surprises once you're in.
Day-to-day, Dawdon is compact — a single recorded transport stop marks this as a place you'd want a car for, despite the transport grade scoring well against national benchmarks overall. Anti-social behaviour is the single largest slice of recorded crime, nearly three in ten incidents, with violence and sexual offences and shoplifting making up much of the rest; the safety grade sits mid-table and has stayed flat rather than drifting either way, so what you see now is a reasonably settled pattern rather than a place getting better or worse. Green space provision runs close to the national rate per resident, and the environment grade backs that up — this isn't a concrete-only suburb, even if no single park stands out in the numbers. Broadband is a genuine strength: full-fibre coverage above 80% means working from one of these terraces is realistic in a way it wouldn't have been a decade ago.