High Usworth
Suburb · 181 residents
55Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Affordability scores 90, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 79, well above the typical 60
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- Road noise reaches 91% of the area
- Food & drink scores 26, below the typical 60
- Health scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around High Usworth
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Is High Usworth a good place to live?
High Usworth scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (90) and environment (79).
It scores lowest on food & drink (26) and health (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for High Usworth in North East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of High Usworth
Detached and semi-detached houses dominate here, the kind with driveways and hedges rather than shared walls, and the freehold paperwork on every single recent sale tells you this is a place people buy into rather than pass through. It reads as settled — a median age pushing 49 against a national figure closer to 40 says the school-run years are mostly behind most of your neighbours, and with a population under 200 spread across the suburb, it never feels crowded in the way a denser Sunderland street might.
Money-wise, High Usworth sits comfortably: an income and deprivation decile of 8 puts it among the better-off pockets of the North East, and the median house price of just over £316,000 is a genuine step up from the £133,000 typical of Sunderland as a whole — expect to pay well over double the borough norm for a similar-sized plot elsewhere in the city. George Washington Primary, an academy converter with over 400 pupils, anchors the schools picture, though the area's own schools grade sits at a solid-but-unspectacular B, so it's worth checking current inspection outcomes rather than assuming Outstanding as standard. Rents around £700 a month are roughly in line with the regional average, which is unusual for an area this affluent on paper — it suggests the ownership market and the rental market here are two quite different worlds.
Green space is concentrated rather than scattered — one substantial space of nearly 72 hectares serves the whole suburb, which for a population this size works out generously, more country park than pocket green. That shapes the rhythm of free time here: dog walks and long views rather than café-hopping on a parade of independent shops, since there's little in the data to suggest a dense restaurant or nightlife scene, and the nightlife grade (a C+) confirms this isn't where you'd come for an evening out. Full-fibre broadband reaching over 70% of properties means working from home is well supported, which matters given how much of the daily pattern here seems to happen at home or outdoors rather than on a high street.