Great Chell
Neighbourhood · 10,831 residents
58Good
Good · better than 4 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
- 90% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Affordability scores 75, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 16, below the typical 60
- Health scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Great Chell
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Great Chell a good place to live?
Great Chell scores 58/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (89) and affordability (75).
It scores lowest on food & drink (16) and health (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Great Chell in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Great Chell
Great Chell reads as a settled, unremarkable pocket of semi-detached streets — pebble-dashed and privet-hedged, the kind of place where the front gardens are for parking rather than show and the houses look built for staying put rather than moving on. There's no retail strip pulling in outside footfall, no new-build estate signage; this is Stoke-on-Trent suburbia doing what it has done for decades.
The housing here tells you plainly what the area is. Almost every sale is a freehold semi, nothing new-build about it, and the median price sits well below both the regional and national mid-point — a fraction of what the same semi-detached type would fetch across England as a whole. That affordability is real, not a fluke of one cheap street: Great Chell sits in the second income and deprivation decile nationally, which means most of the country has more spending power and fewer pressures than the households here. Schooling is a mixed picture rather than a settled one — Ormiston Horizon Academy is rated Good, but its progress score, like that of St Margaret Ward Catholic Academy, sits well below the national average, so a family moving here for schools should visit rather than assume. There's no rail station in the picture, and with only a modest run of bus stops, this is a place built around driving, not commuting by train.
Green space is present but tight — five plots amounting to under two hectares, modest by any measure, so this isn't an area where you wander into acres of park. Crime is the area's quiet outlier: violence and sexual offences make up over four in ten recorded incidents, and the overall crime rate runs far higher than the Stoke-on-Trent average, not just the national one. It's worth sitting with that figure rather than the tidy letter grades elsewhere, because it's the one place where Great Chell diverges sharply from its otherwise steady, unremarkable profile. Connectivity is a genuine strength, though — full-fibre broadband reaches the vast majority of homes, which counts for something when the daily rhythm here is more homebound than out-and-about.