Leyfields
Suburb · 165 residents
66Good
Good · better than 7 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 61 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 81% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Road noise reaches 51% of the area
- Food & drink scores 20, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Leyfields
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Is Leyfields a good place to live?
Leyfields scores 66/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (72) and environment (72).
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 Leyfields in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Leyfields
Detached houses on quiet closes, driveways with two cars on them, hedges kept neat rather than architectural — Leyfields reads as settled, middle-aged Lichfield rather than anything sharp-edged or new. The median age here is 51.5 against a national figure of 40.4, and that gap shows in the pace of the place: this is where people have been for a while, not where they've just landed.
The numbers back up the first impression. With a median house price of £320,000 against Lichfield's £299,950, you're paying a modest premium to be here, and that money mostly buys a detached freehold home — four of the six recent sales were exactly that, bought outright rather than leasehold. It sits in income decile 7 and deprivation decile 8, which puts it comfortably among the better-off, lower-need pockets of the West Midlands without being anywhere near the sharp end of the national price table — that £320k median lands only around the 44th percentile of house prices nationally, so this isn't a wealth enclave, just a steady and comfortable one. Safety carries real weight in the overall picture too: a grade of A, trending flat, with only nine recorded incidents in the past year. The one category worth naming honestly is violence and sexual offences, which makes up just over half of local crime — a common pattern in small-sample suburbs where one category dominates the count rather than a sign of a troubled street.
Green space is modest rather than generous — two plots totalling just under seven hectares, below the national rate per head — so this isn't a place built around parkland rambles, more a spot for a tidy garden and short local walks. Full-fibre broadband reaches almost seven in ten properties, which matters more day-to-day now than it used to, especially for anyone splitting time between home and office. Health grades at a solid B rather than the area's otherwise A-grade territory, which is the one note slightly out of step with everywhere else performing strongly — worth a glance if ongoing GP access matters to you, though nothing in the data points to a specific shortfall.