Hart's Hill
Suburb · 825 residents
62Good
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
- 60% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Food & drink scores 73, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Hart's Hill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Hart's Hill a good place to live?
Hart's Hill scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (79) and food & drink (73).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hart's Hill in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hart's Hill
Hart's Hill is terraced streets, small brick houses packed tight, and a density that tells you this is a place built for workers rather than weekenders. There's no pretence here — no new-build gloss, no flats marketed with a lifestyle brochure. It reads as an established, close-grained residential pocket of Dudley, the kind of place where the same families have been on the same street for years.
The numbers behind the streetscape confirm that impression: this sits in the bottom decile nationally for both deprivation and income, and property here is priced accordingly — a median around £132,500, less than half the national figure and well under Dudley's own borough median. A terraced house on a freehold title is the default here, not the exception (fourteen of the thirty-six recent sales were terraces, and freehold outnumbers leasehold by more than three to one), so a For Sale board on this street is almost always advertising a small, owned, unextended house rather than a leasehold flat or a new development. Rent, too, undercuts the national and regional averages by a wide margin. For Woodside Primary School and Nursery, rated Good, this is a settled, working-age area — median age under 37 — where people tend to buy in and stay rather than pass through.
Crime is the one figure that needs a straight look rather than a glance: violence and sexual offences make up nearly half of all recorded incidents, and the overall rate sits sharply above the Dudley average. That's the out-of-pattern note in an otherwise fairly steady set of grades — safety and health both come out around the national average, connectivity is a genuine strength with strong full-fibre coverage, but nightlife and transport are the weaker links, and the trend on safety is described as improving rather than static, which matters more here than the raw count. Green space is thin — barely a tenth of a hectare logged locally — so this isn't an area built around parks or long dog walks; day-to-day life leans on the house and the street rather than open ground on the doorstep.