Meadows
Neighbourhood · 10,304 residents
54Fair
Fair · better than 3 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
- 28 places to eat and drink
- 9 GP practices within a short walk
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 46% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Safety scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Meadows
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Meadows a good place to live?
Meadows scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (90) and health (75).
It scores lowest on safety (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Meadows in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Meadows
Terraced brick streets, low-rise flats near the tram lines, and a density that feels more inner-city than suburb — this is what Meadows looks like on the ground, packed in tighter than most of England ever gets. You notice it in the parking, the closeness of the houses, the sense that everyone is a short walk from somewhere else.
Getting around is the strongest card this area holds. Between Meadows Embankment, Queens Walk, Wilford Village and Meadows Way West tram stops, plus Nottingham Rail Station within reach, this is a place built for people who don't want to rely on a car — the transport grade here outpaces almost everything else about it. Schools are more mixed: Welbeck Primary, St Patrick's Catholic Primary, Greenfields Community and South Wilford Endowed CofE are all rated Good, a solid enough spread for a family with young children, though the area's overall schools grade sits only just above average, so it's worth looking at the specific school catchment rather than assuming uniform quality. With a median age around 31, this reads as a younger population than the national norm — more first-buyers and renters than retirees.
On property, the story is told by the freehold terrace. Terraced housing dominates local sales, freehold tenure is the norm, and at a median around £195,000-£200,000 this sits roughly on par with Nottingham itself and well under the national median — flats in particular go for notably less here than the national flat price, which tells you where the value sits if you're buying rather than renting. Green space is reasonably generous for an urban pocket — twenty separate spaces totalling nearly 39 hectares — enough for a dog walk or a Sunday kickabout without leaving the area. What tempers the picture is safety: crime sits markedly higher than the Nottingham-wide rate, led by violence and sexual offences, shoplifting and anti-social behaviour, and the safety grade is the one clear dip in an otherwise decent set of scores — connectivity, environment, health and affordability all land comfortably mid-table-and-above. That gap between a strong infrastructure grade and a weak safety one is the thing to sit with before deciding.