Lobley Hill
Suburb · 4,856 residents
79Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- 72% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 49 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 75, well above the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Lobley Hill a good place to live?
Lobley Hill scores 79/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (86) and safety (80).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Lobley Hill in North East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Lobley Hill
Semi-detached houses dominate here, pebble-dashed and privet-hedged, the kind of streets where cars outnumber front gardens and almost everyone owns rather than rents. It reads as a settled, working Gateshead suburb rather than a commuter dormitory or a nightlife strip — the sort of place people move to and then just stay, which the median age of 46 rather gives away.
The numbers back up that sense of settledness. Housing here is overwhelmingly freehold — three in four sales — and semi-detached homes make up half the market, with detached houses a solid secondary presence and almost no flats or new builds in the mix. A typical semi sells for around £170,000, well under the national semi-detached price, and the overall median of £165,000 sits close to Gateshead's own average, if a touch above it. That's a landscape of modest, stable equity rather than anything sharp for the wallet — a "For Sale" board here says "family home, fairly priced," not "investment opportunity." On schooling, Clover Hill Community Primary carries a Good Ofsted rating, and Emmanuel College's progress-8 score of 0.61 is a genuinely strong number for a secondary phase, comfortably ahead of the national average — worth knowing if you've got children heading into their GCSE years. With 35 local transport stops feeding into a wider Gateshead network, this isn't a place built around a mainline station, but it moves.
Green space is generous relative to the population squeezed into it — nearly 22 hectares across ten sites for a suburb of just over 5,000 people, well above the national rate per head — so there's room to walk a dog or let a Saturday drift without leaving the area. What's less generous is the nightlife grade, a clear C sitting oddly against a run of As and B-pluses elsewhere on the scorecard; this is not a place for a night out, and everyone here seems to know it and plan accordingly, heading elsewhere for that and keeping Lobley Hill itself for the quieter half of life. Full-fibre broadband reaches seven in ten homes, which matters more than it used to for anyone working from home some of the week.