Hermit Hole
Neighbourhood · 58 residents
46Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 18, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 31, below the typical 60
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Is Hermit Hole a good place to live?
Hermit Hole scores 46/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is transport (69).
It scores lowest on health (18) and food & drink (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hermit Hole in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hermit Hole
Terraced rows dominate the streets here, red-brick and tightly packed, the kind of housing stock that's been sold and resold as starter homes for generations rather than showhomes for anyone. Hermit Hole reads as a working suburb of Bradford rather than a destination in its own right — dense, unpretentious, and built for people who need to be close to the city without paying city prices.
That last point is really the story. The median sale price here sits around £155,000, some way below the national median and below the regional one too, and terraced houses — which make up the bulk of what sells — go for roughly two-thirds of what a terrace fetches nationally. Almost everything trades freehold, which suits the terraced-house pattern: no service charges, no leasehold ground rent letters, just a straightforward deed in your name. Bradford as a whole is itself an affordable metropolitan district, and Hermit Hole undercuts even that benchmark by close to 15%, which places it among the cheaper corners of an already inexpensive city — useful if you're stretching a deposit, worth noting if you're hoping for the value to do the work for you, because nothing here suggests rapid change either way.
The safety picture needs facing squarely rather than glossed over: recorded crime, especially violent and sexual offences, runs markedly higher than the Bradford average, and it's the one figure in this area's profile that jars against everything else, which otherwise reads as solidly average-to-decent — connectivity, affordability, environment and health all land around or just above the national norm. The trend is flat rather than worsening, so this isn't a place sliding downhill, but it is a place where the crime rate is already elevated and staying there. Public transport is thin — a single stop serves the immediate area, so this is a suburb for people who drive, or who don't mind a walk to catch something better connected elsewhere. Full-fibre broadband reaches almost 87% of premises, better than you might expect from the streetscape, so home working is a realistic option even if the commute options are modest.