Moon's Moat
Suburb · 6,321 residents
50Fair
Fair · better than 1 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
- Environment scores 82, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 9, below the typical 60
- Health scores 25, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Moon's Moat
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Moon's Moat a good place to live?
Moon's Moat scores 50/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (82).
It scores lowest on food & drink (9) and health (25).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Moon's Moat in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Moon's Moat
Moon's Moat reads as a working estate suburb — terraced and semi-detached rows built for Redditch's overspill, front gardens rather than driveways, the kind of streets where the housing stock does the talking rather than the high street. There's no new-build gloss here and not much nightlife either; this is a place people live in, not visit.
The practical picture is mixed but coherent. Schools carry a solid B grade overall, and Abbeywood First School holds a Good rating, which matters if you've got young children — Moons Moat First School and Church Hill Middle School fill out the rest of the local offer without published Ofsted grades to lean on. Thirty transport stops keep the buses ticking over, though this isn't a suburb built around a station, so if your commute needs rail you'll be looking beyond the immediate streets. The median age of 38.9 skews a touch younger than the national average, consistent with an area of family-sized terraces rather than retirement bungalows.
On housing, the story is really about affordability. A median price of £211,000 sits well under both the regional figure and the national one, and it's notably cheaper than Redditch itself — around 16% below the parent district's typical price. Freehold terraces dominate the sales here (24 of the last 51 sales), which is the classic first-rung property, and detached and semi-detached homes both sell for less locally than their national equivalents. Prices have been flat over the past year, so don't come in expecting movement either way. Green space is thin on the ground — four small pockets, under a hectare between them — so this isn't an area built around parkland weekends; you'd be heading out of the suburb for anything more than a local kickabout.