Duke's Meadow
Suburb · 6 residents
43Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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 73, well above the typical 60
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- Road noise reaches 54% of the area
- Food & drink scores 32, below the typical 60
- Health scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Duke's Meadow
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Duke's Meadow a good place to live?
Duke's Meadow scores 43/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (32) and health (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Duke's Meadow in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Duke's Meadow
Duke's Meadow reads more like a scattering of houses on the edge of Blaenau Gwent than a suburb with its own high street — semi-detached homes on quiet roads, gardens rather than pavements packed with life, and a population so small that the place barely registers as a settlement in its own right. This is a corner you'd choose for the quiet, not the buzz.
Housing here is dominated by freehold semi-detached and detached homes, the kind of property that tends to sell to people planning on staying rather than flipping. A median house price a little over £212,000 sits comfortably above what you'd pay elsewhere in Blaenau Gwent — around two-thirds higher than the council average — which tells you this is one of the better-off pockets of the borough, even if it still lands only around the 41st percentile nationally against Welsh house prices generally. Council tax at band D runs above both the Welsh median and the regional figure, a small but real cost of living somewhere that scores well on environment and safety. Schooling locally centres on Glanhowy Primary, a community primary serving a few hundred pupils; there's no Estyn rating attached in what's available, so it's worth checking independently before you bank on it.
Green space and a general sense of calm seem to be the draw rather than nightlife — the nightlife grade is the one soft spot in an otherwise strong set of marks, and it fits: this isn't an area built around restaurants or evening life, it's built around detached gardens and getting away from all that. Crime figures are minimal in absolute terms, and violence and anti-social behaviour top the small tally, but the raw numbers are so low that the picture reads as quiet rather than concerning — safety and environment both score amongst the best grades on offer here. Full-fibre broadband reaches a solid majority of properties, useful if you're working from home rather than commuting into Newport or Cardiff. Median age nudges toward 49, noticeably older than the Welsh average in the low 40s, and that shows in the rhythm of the place — settled, unhurried, not geared toward a young crowd chasing bars and late buses.