Gill Way
Suburb · 1,698 residents
67Good
Good · better than 8 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 61 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Environment scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 17, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Gill Way
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Gill Way a good place to live?
Gill Way scores 67/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (74) and environment (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (17).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Gill Way in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Gill Way
Gill Way's streets are mostly semis and a scattering of terraces and detached houses, close-packed at a density well above the national average, the kind of place where cars line both sides of the road and the front gardens are mostly given over to parking. It reads as settled rather than transient, an established suburb of Tamworth rather than a place people pass through, with a median age pushing 44 telling you this isn't a place dominated by young sharers or students.
There's only one school captured in the local data, which makes it hard to read Gill Way as a schools-driven suburb the way some places are — the nearby Landau Forte Academy and St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary, both rated Good, sit in the wider area and give a reasonable secondary and primary option without either being exceptional. Housing here is priced close to home: a median around £250,000 sits just above what you'd pay elsewhere in Tamworth, and the semi-detached houses that dominate the market change hands for noticeably less than the national semi-detached price, which tells you this is affordable by comparison rather than a premium postcode. Freehold ownership is the norm — 44 of the 49 recent sales — so you're buying the house and the land under it, not a lease with decades ticking down.
Green space is modest — three plots totalling a little over seven hectares, below what you'd find in most comparable suburbs — so this isn't an area built around long dog walks or big parkland Saturdays; day-to-day life leans more on the practical, the twelve local transport stops and the convenience of getting into Tamworth itself for shops, food, and anything more than the basics. What stands out most, though, is the safety grade: an A, well above the norm, which sits slightly at odds with a schools grade of C+ and a health grade of C. Violence and sexual offences account for over half of recorded crime, which sounds alarming until you set it against the overall picture — this is a place where the safety grade has held flat, not worsened, and the crime rate itself isn't the area's defining feature so much as one category dominating a modest total.