Longlevens
Suburb · 6,851 residents
81Very good
Very good · better than 9 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: 11 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 73% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Affordability scores 73, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Longlevens
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Is Longlevens a good place to live?
Longlevens scores 81/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (99) and environment (77).
It scores lowest on food & drink (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Longlevens in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Longlevens
Longlevens reads as pebble-dash semis and privet hedges, the kind of streets where a For Sale board barely has time to weather before it comes down again. Front gardens are neat rather than styled, cars are family-sized, and the age profile — mid-forties on average, older than the national norm — tells you this is a place people settle into rather than pass through on the way to somewhere else.
Practically, it works like this: two community primary schools, Longlevens Junior and Longlevens Infant, anchor the family routine, and there's also The Milestone School for children with additional needs, which says something about the area's provision beyond the mainstream. There isn't a rail station listed here, so if you commute by train you're looking at a drive or bus into Gloucester rather than a walk to a platform; the 25 local transport stops suggest bus links do the heavier lifting. Housing is overwhelmingly semi-detached and freehold — 39 of the 65 recent sales were semis, and only one in sixty-five came leasehold — which is the classic signature of a settled, owner-occupied suburb rather than a rental churn zone. At a median of around £304,000, it sits a third above Gloucester's own median, so you're paying a premium to be in Longlevens specifically rather than the wider district, even though that figure still undercuts the national average.
Green space is genuinely part of the offer — thirteen plots covering nearly sixteen hectares, more generous per head than both the regional and national averages — so dog walks and pram routes aren't an afterthought here. What's harder to square is the health grade, a D+ sitting oddly against an otherwise strong scorecard of A-grade affordability and an A+ for safety; on the numbers, violence and anti-social behaviour still make up the bulk of the modest crime count, but nothing here suggests a place that feels unsafe to walk through. Nightlife is graded only a C, which matches the character — this isn't somewhere you come for a big night out, it's somewhere you come home to after one elsewhere.