Maindee
Suburb · 7,040 residents
40Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
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- Flood risk: 57% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Schools scores 26, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Maindee
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Maindee a good place to live?
Maindee scores 40/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is infrastructure (66).
It scores lowest on schools (26).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Maindee in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Maindee
Terraced streets run in tight rows here, red brick and bay windows, with corner shops and takeaways doing steady trade on the main roads through. It's a dense little pocket of Newport — more than double the population density you'd find in most of Wales — and it has the feel of a place built for people rather than cars, everyone close enough to walk to whatever they need.
Housing here is overwhelmingly terraced and freehold, and the numbers back up what you'd guess from walking the streets: a typical sale sits around £173,750, well below both the Newport and Welsh averages, and about a fifth cheaper than the wider Newport market. That affordability is real, and it's part of the pitch. Schooling is more mixed — Maindee Primary and Eveswell Primary anchor the area alongside a couple of Catholic voluntary schools, St Joseph's and St Patrick's, but Wales doesn't run Ofsted-style inspections, so you're relying on local reputation rather than a headline grade, and the area's own schools score is middling rather than strong. Public transport is serviceable rather than a selling point — plenty of bus stops dotted around, but nothing that marks this out as a commuter hub.
Green space is thin on the ground — seven small pockets adding up to just over a hectare, a fraction of the Welsh average per head — so this isn't an area built around parkland; people tend to make do with what's close rather than head out for a big Saturday walk. What stands out more is the safety picture, and it cuts against the grain of everything else: despite sitting in the less well-off third of Wales for income and deprivation, Maindee's own safety grade comes back as the strongest thing about it, even though the raw crime figures — violence and anti-social behaviour lead the list, and the area runs well above Newport's overall crime rate — tell a more complicated story. That's the one to sit with: a place that reads as gritty on paper but rates unusually well when the picture is weighed in full, which usually means the reality lands somewhere between the two, and worth a walk around before you decide either way.