Lower Brownhill
Neighbourhood · 64 residents
52Fair
Fair · better than 2 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- 88% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- 95% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
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- Road noise reaches 88% of the area
- Health scores 26, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Lower Brownhill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Lower Brownhill a good place to live?
Lower Brownhill scores 52/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (82) and infrastructure (70).
It scores lowest on health (26).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Lower Brownhill in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Lower Brownhill
Terraced streets dominate here, dense and close-packed, the kind of housing stock that was built for dockworkers and factory shifts and now houses whoever needs a foothold in Southampton without paying Southampton prices. It doesn't dress itself up. You won't mistake it for the smarter parts of the city, and it isn't trying to be.
The number that matters most for a family sizing this place up is the schools picture, and it's mixed rather than damning. Redbridge Community School carries a Good rating, which counts for something, though its progress-8 score suggests pupils aren't necessarily thriving academically once they're through the door. Oasis Academy Lord's Hill, the other secondary option, is rated Inadequate — a genuine black mark, and worth knowing before you commit to a catchment. None of the primaries in the sample carry a published Ofsted grade, so you'd want to visit rather than trust a label. Housing itself is straightforward: mostly freehold terraces, a median price around £245,000 that sits nearly ten per cent below the Southampton average, which tells you this is one of the city's more affordable corners rather than one of its aspirational ones. The trade-off shows up elsewhere.
That trade-off is safety. Crime here runs at more than double the Southampton rate, with violence and sexual offences alone accounting for over four in ten recorded incidents — the single largest category by some distance, ahead of anti-social behaviour and criminal damage. It's the one grade that breaks the pattern in an otherwise unremarkable set of scores: connectivity and environment both come out well above the national average, full-fibre broadband is close to universal, and there are nine green spaces covering nearly 50 hectares for a population of under 3,500 — genuinely generous provision for a place this size. But the safety grade drags against all of that, and health comes out even lower, the weakest mark on the whole card. This isn't a place where the numbers tell one consistent story; it's a place where the outdoor life is decent and the personal-safety and health pictures need honest thought.