Mill End
Suburb · 484 residents
70Very good
Very 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
- Property market scores 77, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 74, well above the typical 60
- Schools scores 73, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 55% of the area
- Food & drink scores 32, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Mill End
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Mill End a good place to live?
Mill End scores 70/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for property market (77) and environment (74).
It scores lowest on food & drink (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Mill End in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Mill End
Mill End reads as a village that got absorbed by the map rather than a place that grew into one: low-rise, semi-detached brick, the kind of streets where cars outnumber people and gardens outnumber cars. It sits within Warwick district, and everything about it — the wide plots, the quiet, the average age creeping past 45 — signals a settled population rather than a starter-home churn. This is not a place you pass through; it's a place you arrive at once and stay.
The economics back that up. This is decile 10 for both deprivation and income, meaning Mill End sits among the least deprived, best-off pockets in the country, and the housing stock follows suit — semi-detached homes on freehold titles dominate, with detached houses making up a good chunk of the rest. A median sale price of £370,000 runs a little above the Warwick district average and comfortably past the national median, though it's not exotic money by the standards of the south; a For Sale board here says "settled, comfortable, not flashy." Rent at £1,239 a month and a council tax band D bill around £190 both track higher than the regional norm, which is the trade-off for the quiet and the space.
Green space is the one big number that matters day to day: 47 hectares of it against a population of just over 600 is an enormous ratio, and it shows in the grades — environment comes back A+, housing an A, the kind of pattern that tells you this is fundamentally a leafy, low-density corner rather than a commuter dormitory dressed up as one. Connectivity and transport sit more modestly at C+ and B, which fits a place built around cars and gardens rather than platforms; if you need a fast rail commute into a city, this isn't where you'd centre your search. Safety carries a decent B+ overall, but it's worth sitting with the one grade that breaks the pattern: violence and sexual offences account for over a third of the area's recorded crime, well ahead of anti-social behaviour and public order in second and third place. Against a population this small, the raw counts are modest, but it's the outlier in an otherwise uniformly comfortable set of grades, and worth a look at the local force's own breakdown before you commit.