Dudley's Fields
Suburb · 1,107 residents
56Good
Good · better than 3 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
- 70% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Road noise reaches 95% of the area
- Food & drink scores 9, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Dudley's Fields
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Dudley's Fields a good place to live?
Dudley's Fields scores 56/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (84).
It scores lowest on food & drink (9).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Dudley's Fields in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Dudley's Fields
Terraced brick streets, tight and close together, with the kind of housing stock that turns over slowly and rarely sees a new build go up. This is a settled, working corner of Walsall rather than a place reinventing itself, and the tenure pattern backs that up — most people here own the freehold on a modest terrace rather than renting or leasing, which tends to mean neighbours who've been neighbours for a while.
The school picture is mixed enough to matter. Woodlands Academy of Learning and Bloxwich Academy are both rated Good, and either would be a reasonable anchor for a family, but Busill Jones Primary is marked as Requires Improvement and Mary Elliot Academy as Inadequate, so which school catchment you land in here genuinely changes the calculation. Housing itself is cheap by any national measure — a typical terrace changes hands for under £150,000 against a national terrace median well north of £200,000 — and that affordability, paired with a decile-one ranking on both income and deprivation, is really the defining fact of the area: this is one of the less affluent corners of the country, and the property prices reflect that rather than any lack of appeal. Transport and connectivity are graded only in the middle of the pack, so this reads as a place you drive from rather than commute out of easily.
Green space allowance sits close to the regional average, and full-fibre broadband reaches a large majority of homes, so day-to-day life has more going for it than the headline crime figures might suggest. And those figures need context: the crime rate here runs vastly higher than the Walsall borough average, driven overwhelmingly by violence and sexual offences, which alone account for roughly half of all recorded incidents. That is the one grade that jars against an otherwise unremarkable B-range profile — safety pulls the picture down even as the trend line is described as improving, and it's worth sitting with that rather than skating past it. Health and environment grades are solid, nightlife is thin, and none of that is surprising for a small, quiet residential population of under 400 people living at a density well above the national norm.