Fishmore
Suburb · 30 residents
59Good
Good · better than 5 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
- 2 GP practices within a short walk
- Food & drink scores 82, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 33 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Transport scores 33, below the typical 60
- Infrastructure scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Fishmore a good place to live?
Fishmore scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (87) and food & drink (82).
It scores lowest on transport (33) and infrastructure (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Fishmore in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Fishmore
Fishmore reads like a market-town edge rather than a suburb proper — a scatter of terraces and detached houses on quiet roads, with a population you could fit into a couple of large office buildings and a median age well into the fifties. This is not a place of young families jostling for school places; it's a settled, older community, the kind where people know each other's cars.
The numbers back that up. An income and deprivation decile of 8 puts Fishmore among the more comfortable corners of the country, and house prices sit a little below the Shropshire average — a three-and-a-bit percent discount on the county figure. Terraces dominate the sales here, most of them freehold, and the going rate for one tracks the national terrace price almost exactly, while detached houses and flats both sell for noticeably less than their national equivalents. That's a market that rewards a plain, unfussy terraced buy and gets less excited about flats — there simply isn't much flat stock or demand pushing those prices up. On schooling, the one sample in the data — Ludlow Church of England School, a secondary academy with 623 pupils — shows a below-average Progress 8 score, and there's no rail station in the picture at all, so this reads as a car-dependent, older-skewing pocket rather than a commuter cut-through.
Green space is thin on paper — one plot of under four hectares serving the whole area — so day-to-day life here isn't built around park walks so much as the wider Ludlow countryside people drive out to. There's no named restaurant or leisure cluster in the data either, which fits the sense of a residential fringe rather than a destination in itself: you'd be going into Ludlow proper for a coffee, a pub, or a GP appointment, not staying local for it. What stands out instead is the safety picture, and it's the quiet spine of this whole piece: an A grade for safety and affordability, a B+ overall, sitting oddly against a crime rate that the data flags as over ten times the Shropshire county average. Anti-social behaviour and violent offences make up more than half of the reported incidents, though the total count is small in absolute terms and the trend is flat, not worsening — so this looks like a statistical quirk of a small population base rather than a place that feels unsafe to live in.