Frenchay Park Road
Neighbourhood · 680 residents
53Fair
Fair · better than 2 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
- 87% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 76% of the area
- Health scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Frenchay Park Road
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Frenchay Park Road a good place to live?
Frenchay Park Road scores 53/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (89).
It scores lowest on health (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Frenchay Park Road in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Frenchay Park Road
Frenchay Park Road sits in that quietly established band of Bristol suburbia where semi-detached houses dominate the streetscape and most of them are owned outright rather than rented — the kind of road where a For Sale board tends to stay up for a reasonable stretch rather than vanish overnight. The population here skews slightly younger than the national median age, and at just under 850 people in a fairly dense pocket, it reads as settled rather than transient: a place people move to and then stay.
The practical picture is mixed in an interesting way. There's no rail station listed for the immediate area, so this isn't a commuter-belt story built around a platform — it's more a driving-and-bus suburb, with a couple of local stops covering day-to-day movement. Schools follow a similar pattern: Begbrook Primary Academy carries a Good rating and takes several hundred pupils, a solid rather than exceptional option, while Little Hayes Nursery School is rated as requiring improvement — worth knowing if early years provision matters to you, since it's the one grade here that breaks from the otherwise respectable pattern. Housing itself is comfortably mid-market: the median price sits close to the Bristol unitary authority average, and semi-detached homes here actually fetch more than the national semi-detached benchmark, which tells you this is a road holding its value rather than an undiscovered bargain.