Hunt End
Suburb · 2,100 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 45 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 64% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 10, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Hunt End
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Hunt End a good place to live?
Hunt End scores 65/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (79) and environment (72).
It scores lowest on food & drink (10).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hunt End in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hunt End
Hunt End reads as a fairly ordinary Redditch edge suburb of detached and semi-detached houses on quiet, low-density streets — the kind of place where the cars in driveways matter more than what's on the high street, because there isn't much of one. It's a settled, older-skewing pocket rather than a young professional magnet, and it feels that way the moment you walk it.
The numbers back that scene up. Median age here is a good few years above the national figure, and with only one school actually sitting inside Hunt End itself, most families lean on what's nearby rather than on-site choice — Astwood Bank Primary and Feckenham CofE Primary both carry Good ratings, and St Augustine's Catholic High School, rated Outstanding, is the standout secondary option in the area. Housing is where the story sharpens: this is a Freehold, Detached-dominated market, and a median price of £212,500 sits well under both the regional and national medians, yet it's still running about 30% above the wider Redditch borough figure — so within its own patch, Hunt End is the pricier end, even while looking cheap on a national map. Detached homes here actually sell close to the national detached price, but semis and flats go for noticeably less than typical, which tells you the flats here aren't the sought-after part of the stock.
Green space is thin — three plots totalling under two and a half hectares — so this isn't an area built around parkland weekends; residents are more likely to drive out to bigger spaces than stroll to one on the doorstep. With nine transport stops and no rail station named for the area, this leans on bus and car rather than a commuter-rail identity, which fits the older, settled population rather than a City-bound crowd. Nightlife scores poorly, and that tracks with what you'd expect from a quiet residential suburb rather than an evening-economy one; if you want restaurants and bars as part of daily life, you'll be travelling into Redditch proper for it. Health provision is only middling on the local grading too, worth weighing if that matters to your day-to-day.