Greenhill
Suburb · 425 residents
49Fair
Fair · better than 1 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
- Affordability scores 72, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 33 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Food & drink scores 18, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Greenhill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Greenhill a good place to live?
Greenhill scores 49/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (72) and safety (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (18).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Greenhill in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Greenhill
Semi-detached houses with hedges rather than walls, cars parked on the drive rather than the street, and the kind of quiet that comes from most people being past the school-run years — Greenhill reads as settled rather than aspirational, the sort of place people move to once and don't leave in a hurry.
The housing stock tells you who's here: mostly semis and a solid minority of detached homes, all freehold, and a median age nudging 47 against a national figure closer to 40. This isn't a first-time-buyer suburb so much as a second-or-third-move one. A semi here trades at around £245,000, comfortably under what the same type fetches nationally, and the area sits a touch above its Wyre Forest parent on price — not cheap for the district, but not stretching either. St Oswald's CofE Primary, rated Good, is the visible anchor for the handful of families still doing school runs, though this doesn't feel like a place organised around commuting or catchment scrambles the way a younger suburb might.
Green space and low-key routine seem to do most of the work here rather than a run of restaurants or a nightlife strip — the nightlife grade sits noticeably below everything else, the one flat note in an otherwise even set of scores, so evenings out mean going elsewhere rather than staying local. Health provision and the environment both read as solidly average-to-good, in keeping with a place that's more about quiet maintenance than reinvention. Full-fibre broadband reaching close to 80% of properties suggests this isn't a backwater either, just not a destination.