Hartshill
Suburb · 54 residents
51Fair
Fair · better than 2 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
- 72% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Property market scores 73, 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 20, below the typical 60
- Health scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Hartshill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Hartshill a good place to live?
Hartshill scores 51/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (75) and property market (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (20) and health (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hartshill in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hartshill
Detached and semi-detached houses dominate the streets here, the kind of place where a For Sale board almost always reads "freehold" and rarely "new build" — this is settled, established housing stock, not a developer's showground.
On paper, Hartshill sits close to the middle of the national picture: an income decile of 3 and a deprivation decile of 5 make it more modest than well-off, but the housing tells a slightly different story. A median price of £219,750 is below both the regional and national averages, and detached houses here go for £295,000 against a national detached average of £420,000 — so a family buying the biggest house type on the street is still paying well under the odds for it, at least compared with elsewhere in England. The parent authority of Telford and Wrekin, its own overall market slightly cheaper again, puts Hartshill about 7% above that baseline, so it's a step up from the wider area rather than a leap.
Schools carry a C+ grade, which tempers the appeal for anyone moving primarily for education — worth going in with eyes open rather than assuming the rest of the profile (a housing grade of A, an affordability grade of B+) carries through everywhere. Where the picture does shine is safety: despite living inside a crime breakdown dominated by violence and sexual offences (41% of incidents) and anti-social behaviour (18%), the raw local numbers are low enough, and the area's own crime grade lands at B+. The eye-catching figure is the comparison to Telford and Wrekin's crime rate — Hartshill runs enormously below the borough's overall rate, a signal that this pocket is meaningfully calmer than its wider authority, even if the category mix mirrors what you'd see in most urban patches nationally.