Framwellgate Moor reads as pebble-dashed semis and post-war streets, the kind of place where front gardens are tidy rather than statement, and the traffic on the main road into Durham is the loudest thing about it. This is not a place that performs for visitors; it's a place people settle into and stay, which the median age of 43.5 rather gives away. The practical picture here is dominated by one word: value. A median house price of £160,000 sits well below both the regional figure and miles under the national average, and even against County Durham itself — hardly an expensive corner of England — Framwellgate Moor runs about a third higher, so read that as a place that has kept pace with, rather than pulled away from, its own county. Semi-detached freeholds dominate the sales here, over half the recent sample, which tells you what a For Sale board usually means locally: an ordinary family house, owned outright rather than leased, the sort of stock that doesn't attract flipping or new-build estates — none of the recent sales were new builds. Schooling carries real weight: Framwellgate Moor Primary is rated Outstanding, and Framwellgate School Durham takes secondary-age pupils through to New College Durham for sixth form, so a family could plausibly stay within a few streets for a child's entire education. The area grades an A for schools overall, which is the strongest single signal in the data. Green space is genuinely generous for a suburb this size — 23 separate spaces covering over 32 hectares, more than the national average per head — so the weekend shape here tends to be outdoor rather than café-bound; this isn't an area with a dense restaurant scene, and the data doesn't point to one, so social life leans on those open spaces and on Durham itself, which sits close enough to borrow from. Health provision scores strongly, an A+ that stands out even against the area's generally solid grades, and broadband is well ahead of the curve too, with 80% full-fibre coverage — useful if working from home is part of the plan. The one grade that breaks the pattern is safety, sitting at a B while almost everything else scores A or B+, and the trend line for safety is marked as worsening rather than stable. Shoplifting and violent/sexual offences each account for around a quarter of recorded crime, with anti-social behaviour close behind — a profile that reads more high-street and town-centre than menacing, but it's the one figure worth sitting with rather than skimming past, especially set against an otherwise reassuring scorecard. Put together, this is a place for people who want settled, affordable, well-schooled suburban life without paying for polish — not somewhere chasing a reputation, and not somewhere that needs to.