Maw Green
Suburb · 9,255 residents
68Good
Good · better than 8 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 39 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 62% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 44% of the area
- Food & drink scores 21, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Maw Green
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Maw Green a good place to live?
Maw Green scores 68/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (87) and environment (79).
It scores lowest on food & drink (21).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Maw Green in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Maw Green
Detached and semi-detached houses dominate here, the kind with driveways rather than on-street parking, and the streets have the settled, unhurried look of a place where people stay put rather than pass through. This isn't a suburb built around a high street buzz — it's residential in the quiet sense, and the median age of early forties tells you most of your neighbours will be past the flat-share years and into family or empty-nest territory.
The numbers back up that first impression rather than complicate it. Detached homes make up half of recent sales, freehold ownership is the clear norm, and a For Sale board on one of these roads is advertising something bought to keep rather than flip — turnover here runs well below the national rate. At a median of £367,500, Maw Green sits above both the national and regional norm, and a house here costs roughly 62% more than the typical Walsall property, which places it as one of the borough's better-off pockets rather than a typical slice of it. Schooling has a similar shape: Queen Mary's Grammar School carries an Outstanding rating and a solid progress score, while the primaries in the sample — Park Hall Infant Academy, Whitehall Junior, Delves — mostly come back "Good," giving the area a dependable rather than exceptional academic reputation. Getting around, though, is the area's weak joint — transport grades land only around average, so this reads as a driving suburb more than a rail commuter's base.