Featherstone
Town · 6,412 residents
57Good
Good · better than 2 in 10 towns
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: 52 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 98% of the area
- Food & drink scores 25, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Featherstone
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Featherstone a good place to live?
Featherstone scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (84).
It scores lowest on food & drink (25).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Featherstone in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Featherstone
Featherstone reads as pebble-dashed semis and post-war terraces, the kind of village where the housing stock looks lived-in rather than staged, and where you're more likely to pass someone walking a dog to the shops than browsing an estate agent's window. It sits in South Staffordshire but has the density of somewhere far more urban — rows of houses packed closer together than the surrounding countryside might suggest, with a working, unpretentious feel rather than a chocolate-box one.
The number that matters most here is the price: a median house sits at £240,500, a quarter below the South Staffordshire figure and comfortably under the national median too, with semi-detached houses on freehold titles making up most of what actually sells. That combination — dominant tenure freehold, dominant type semi-detached, virtually no leasehold drag — is the classic "you own the whole plot" signal that reassures buyers who've been burned by ground rent elsewhere. Housing here has stayed flat rather than sprinting, so this isn't a place mid-boom; it's steady. For schooling, Featherstone Academy carries a Good Ofsted rating and takes the bulk of local primary-age children, though with only one school logged in the immediate data, families weighing secondary options will want to look slightly further afield. Rail links aren't part of the picture here, so this reads as a driving or bus village rather than a commuter-belt one, with 38 local transport stops doing the day-to-day work.