Four Oaks Common Road
Neighbourhood · 908 residents
66Good
Good · better than 7 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
- 54% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Affordability scores 78, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Four Oaks Common Road
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Four Oaks Common Road a good place to live?
Four Oaks Common Road scores 66/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (91) and affordability (78).
It scores lowest on food & drink (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Four Oaks Common Road in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Four Oaks Common Road
Detached houses set well back from the road, gravel driveways, hedges trimmed rather than wild — this is the kind of street where the cars on the drive are newer than the people answering the door. Four Oaks Common Road sits in the top income and deprivation decile nationally, which in plain terms means it's among the least deprived places you'll find anywhere in the country, and the housing stock backs that up without needing to shout about it.
The numbers on property confirm what the streetscape already tells you: this is overwhelmingly a freehold, owner-occupied, detached-house kind of place, and the premium is real — local detached homes change hands for notably more than the national detached average. A median sale price above £400,000 makes it pricier than Birmingham by a wide margin, and that gap is the honest trade-off here: you're paying well above the regional and national norms for the postcode, the quiet, and the schooling. On that last point, The Arthur Terry School, rated Good with a solidly positive Progress 8 score, serves the secondary-age cohort, and with a median age of 48 — a good deal older than the national average — this reads less as a young-family starter area and more as a place people move to once they're established, or stay in once the kids have grown and left.
Safety carries a strong grade and the trend is flat rather than rising or falling, which is reassuring in itself, but it's worth sitting with the one number that breaks the pattern: violence and sexual offences account for over a third of recorded crime here, more than shoplifting and vehicle crime combined. In an area this affluent and this quiet-looking, that's the kind of statistic worth asking a local about rather than dismissing — it doesn't erase the overall B+ safety grade, but it's the thread that doesn't quite match the rest of the fabric. Transport is the other soft spot: the connectivity grade is respectable but transport itself lags, suggesting this is a driving suburb rather than one built around a station platform, so anyone counting on a rail commute should check what's actually reachable before assuming it.