Field Head
Suburb · 1,333 residents
63Good
Good · better than 6 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
- Affordability scores 82, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 73, well above the typical 60
- Property market scores 70, 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
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Field Head
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Field Head a good place to live?
Field Head scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (82) and environment (73).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Field Head in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Field Head
Field Head reads as detached-house Yorkshire: broad plots, hedged gardens, cars on the drive rather than the kerb, and a quiet that suggests people bought here to stay rather than pass through. The median age nudges 45, a good four years above the national figure, and that shows in the streets themselves — this is a settled, middle-aged suburb rather than a starter-home churn zone.
A For Sale board here most often reads "detached, freehold" — a quarter of recent sales were semis but detached houses lead the local market, and freehold dominates almost completely, with only a handful of leasehold sales in the mix. Prices sit above both the Wakefield district and the Yorkshire region: the local median runs a good third higher than Wakefield's typical figure, though it's still some way under what a detached house would cost you nationally, which tells you this is relative comfort within a genuinely affordable district rather than a hotspot in its own right. On schooling, Stanley St Peters Church of England Primary carries a Good Ofsted rating and sits alongside Stanley Grove Primary Academy and Meadowcroft, an independent special school — a reasonable spread for a suburb this size, though nothing here is rated Outstanding, which is worth knowing if that grading matters to you. The connectivity and transport grades both land at B+, with eight local stops giving you options, though this reads as a driving suburb more than a rail one.
Green space is concentrated rather than abundant — two named spaces but over 57 hectares between them, so what's there has room to breathe, good for a dog walk or a long Sunday loop rather than a quick pocket park. Full-fibre broadband reaches the vast majority of homes, which matters more than it used to now that plenty of residents likely work from that home office rather than commute daily. The one grade that jars against an otherwise strong pattern is health, at C+, sitting below safety, housing, and environment, which are all comfortably into B+ and A territory — worth a mention to anyone weighing up GP access or health outcomes locally, since everything else here points to a place doing well for itself.