Lawrence Hill
Suburb · 1,095 residents
57Good
Good · better than 4 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
- Environment 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
- Road noise reaches 72% of the area
- Food & drink scores 20, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Lawrence Hill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Lawrence Hill a good place to live?
Lawrence Hill scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (76).
It scores lowest on food & drink (20).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Lawrence Hill in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Lawrence Hill
Semi-detached houses with pebbledash and paved-over front gardens line most of Lawrence Hill's streets, the kind of solid interwar suburb that draws people wanting space over spectacle. It sits close enough to Newport's centre to feel connected, but the pace here is domestic rather than city-adjacent.
A typical sale is a three-bed semi, freehold, going for around the £250,000 to £262,000 mark depending on size — noticeably more than the going rate for semis across Wales generally, though still comfortably under what a detached place here would cost you. Nearly all sales are freehold, which keeps things simple for buyers, and the almost total absence of new-build stock tells you this is an established street pattern, not a developing one. Alway Primary School serves the area as the local community school; Wales doesn't use Ofsted ratings, so there's no inspection grade attached, but it's the kind of steady neighbourhood school that anchors a place like this. With a median age approaching 46 — older than the Welsh average — this reads less as a young-family magnet and more as a place where people settle and stay, something the low annual turnover of sales backs up.
The numbers on safety need a careful read. Lawrence Hill's own safety grade comes out as the strongest thing about the area, and violent and sexual offences make up the largest single share of recorded crime, followed by anti-social behaviour and criminal damage — a pattern common to compact, densely populated suburbs rather than something that marks this street out as exceptional. Set against Newport as a whole, the crime rate here runs well above the borough average, which is the one figure that should give a prospective buyer pause even as the area-level grade reads positively; the two aren't contradictory, just measuring different things. Housing and environment grades sit strongly too, and connectivity is solid, with full-fibre broadband reaching the large majority of homes. Health services score more modestly here, worth checking against your own household's needs rather than assumed.