Haslucks Green
Suburb · 7,508 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: 46 per 1,000 people a year against 100
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Haslucks Green
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Haslucks Green a good place to live?
Haslucks Green scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Haslucks Green in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Haslucks Green
Semi-detached houses dominate the streets here, most of them owned outright rather than let out, and the whole area reads as settled rather than transitional — the kind of place where people move in and stay. There's little passing trade or nightlife pull; this is a residential suburb doing what residential suburbs do, quietly and without much fuss.
The practical picture is mixed in an interesting way. Shirley Rail Station and Whitlocks End Rail Station both sit in the area, giving a commuter route into Birmingham without needing a car, and the median age of just under 42 fits a place where people have settled into family life rather than just starting out. Schools are more of a mixed bag: Light Hall School, the secondary, is rated Good, though its progress 8 score (-0.19) suggests pupils don't always progress as strongly as the intake might predict. None of the primaries in the sample carry a published Ofsted grade, so you'd want to check current inspection reports directly rather than assume. Housing costs sit close to the Solihull median — about 5% above the parent borough — and just above the England average, which puts Haslucks Green in the middle of the market rather than at either extreme; the five-year trend is essentially flat, so this isn't a place where prices have been running away.
Green space is modest — four sites totalling just over five hectares — so this isn't an area built around big parks or long dog walks, more pocket-sized recreation between houses. What stands out more is the safety picture: crime here runs at a small fraction of the Solihull rate (92% lower), and the trend is improving rather than static, which is a meaningfully good sign for a suburb this size. Violence and sexual offences and shoplifting make up over half of the recorded crime between them, which often points to activity concentrated around retail parades rather than spread through residential streets. Health provision scores lower than the rest of the profile here, so it's worth checking what's actually within reach before assuming everything else lines up.