Nether Green
Suburb · 40 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
- 56% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 75 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 86% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Nether Green
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Nether Green a good place to live?
Nether Green scores 70/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (78) and safety (73).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Nether Green in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Nether Green
Nether Green sits at that point on the map where terraced and semi-detached streets give way to a quieter, more spread-out kind of suburb — the sort of place where the housing does the talking rather than any strip of shops. Semi-detached homes dominate what's on the market, nearly all of it freehold, which tells you most people here own outright rather than lease: the classic pattern of a settled, longer-tenure street rather than one churning through renters.
If you're weighing up the practical side, the numbers paint a place that's comfortably below the national and regional house-price norms — a median around £234,000, cheaper than the North East Derbyshire area it sits within, and well under the national median of £281,000. Council tax and rents follow the same modest logic, with typical rents sitting notably below both the regional and national averages. Schools are a thinner picture: Killamarsh Infant and Junior Schools serve the area, both community primaries, though no Ofsted rating is on record for either here, so it's worth checking in directly if schooling is your priority. At a median age of 44, this reads as a place of settled households rather than young professionals chasing a rail link — there's no station listed for the immediate area, so this isn't a commuter-corridor suburb in the way some neighbouring towns are.
Day-to-day, the area's real strength shows up in the grades rather than the amenities list: safety and environment both score at the top of the scale, well above the national average, and connectivity is strong too, with full-fibre broadband reaching the vast majority of homes. The one grade that breaks the pattern is nightlife, sitting at a modest C+, and schools at C+ also pull against the otherwise strong picture — so this isn't a place built around evenings out or exam-league bragging rights, it's built around quiet streets and a low crime rate that's held flat year on year. The crime breakdown itself is small in absolute terms, and while violence and sexual offences make up the largest share, as they do almost everywhere, the overall volume is low enough that it doesn't dominate the character of the place.