Hollybush
Neighbourhood · 5,766 residents
65Good
Good · better than 7 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
- 99% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Affordability scores 76, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Hollybush a good place to live?
Hollybush scores 65/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (84) and affordability (76).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hollybush in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hollybush
Rows of semi-detached houses dominate here, brick-fronted and mostly owner-occupied, the kind of streets where a For Sale board says "family home, freehold, nothing flashy" rather than "investment opportunity." Hollybush sits within Stoke-on-Trent, and it reads as a settled, working suburb rather than a commuter dormitory or a nightlife strip — the median age nudges 41, and the pace matches that.
Money-wise, this is one of the more affordable corners of the country: a median house price around £175,000 is well under both the regional figure and the national average, and it's roughly a fifth higher than the Stoke-on-Trent-wide median, so you're paying a premium to live here rather than elsewhere in the authority. Semi-detached freeholds make up the bulk of sales, with detached homes trading at a noticeable discount to their national equivalents too — this is a place where the numbers on the door still feel like proper value. Schools are a mixed picture: The Meadows Primary Academy and St Thomas More Catholic Academy serve the area, though the secondary's progress score sits below zero, and the overall schools grade lands in C+ territory — worth a proper look at catchment details before you commit rather than assuming.
Green space is generous for a suburb this size — eighteen pockets of park and open ground adding up to a fair spread of hectares, more generous per head than the national norm, so there's always somewhere to walk off a Sunday roast even without a headline park to name. The crime picture is the one grade that breaks the pattern: safety sits at B+ overall, but violence and sexual offences account for over half of recorded incidents, and the area's crime rate runs well above the Stoke-on-Trent average rather than below it. That's worth sitting with rather than skimming past — it doesn't mean danger on every corner, but it does mean the headline "safer than the city" framing doesn't hold here. Connectivity is solid, with strong full-fibre coverage, and the transport and connectivity grades both sit comfortably above average, so working from home or streaming through the evening won't be a problem.