Heathgates
Suburb · 856 residents
55Good
Good · better than 3 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: 69 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 22% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Heathgates
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Heathgates a good place to live?
Heathgates scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (78).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and food & drink (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Heathgates in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Heathgates
Heathgates is a street of semis and terraces, dense for its size, the kind of place where the housing stock does most of the talking before you've even parked the car. Rows of modest brick fronts, freehold boards outnumbering "to let" signs, and a population that skews into middle age rather than students or first-time buyers chasing a starter flat. It doesn't announce itself; it just gets on with being lived in.
The property picture here is straightforward: semi-detached homes dominate, freehold is the norm rather than the exception, and at a median of £200,000 you're buying well below both the regional figure and the England-wide average — this is a place where £270,000 buys more house than it would almost anywhere else in Shropshire, and the local semi-detached median sits some £70,000 under the national one. That affordability comes with a caveat worth sitting with: the schools grade here is the one flat note in an otherwise solid chord, and the only sampled school in the data is a pupil referral unit rather than a mainstream primary or secondary, so anyone house-hunting with children will want to look further afield than this dataset before committing. Transport tells a similarly mixed story — the connectivity grade is respectable, full-fibre broadband reaches most homes, but the transport grade itself lags, suggesting this is a driving suburb more than a rail-commuter one.
Green space is real but not abundant — getting on for 23 hectares split across two spaces, which for a population under a thousand works out generously per head even if the choice of destination is limited. Safety is the standout: violence and sexual offences make up over half of recorded crime, which sounds stark until you notice the safety grade itself sits at the top of the scale and the trend is improving, not worsening — the raw crime rate looks high set against Shropshire as a whole, but decile-based grading suggests this is a comparatively low-crime pocket once you weigh it properly rather than just eyeballing one bad-looking category. That's a case where the headline number and the grade genuinely disagree, and the grade is the one to trust.