Goldthorn Hill
Suburb · 4,053 residents
63Good
Good · better than 6 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: 66 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 96% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Goldthorn Hill
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Is Goldthorn Hill a good place to live?
Goldthorn Hill scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (71) and infrastructure (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Goldthorn Hill in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Goldthorn Hill
Streets here are solid, semi-detached, mostly pre-war brick — the kind of housing stock that whole roads of Wolverhampton were built from, and the For Sale boards you see are almost always freehold family houses rather than flats or new-builds. It's not a place that performs for visitors; there's no obvious high street pull, just a residential suburb that gets on with itself, with a population skewing a little older than the national average and settled rather than transient.
The practical picture is mixed in a way worth sitting with. Connectivity into the property is genuinely strong — full fibre reaches the vast majority of homes, which suits anyone working from a spare room rather than commuting daily — but the transport grade itself is unremarkable, and there's no standout rail station in the data to anchor a commuter life around. Schools carry more promise: Woodfield Primary School is rated Outstanding, and Goldthorn Park Primary School is a solid Good, so a family with young children has real options even if Graiseley Primary, also serving the area, is rated as requiring improvement — a reminder that the schooling picture varies street by street rather than being uniformly strong. Housing itself sits below both the regional and national medians, at a level that undercuts Wolverhampton's average house price by a noticeable margin upward — meaning you're paying more here than the borough typical, even though the city itself remains inexpensive by national standards.