New Town Row
Neighbourhood · 4,996 residents
55Good
Good · 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
- 26 places to eat and drink
- 13 rail or tube stations within a short walk
Check before you view
- Road noise reaches 49% of the area
- Safety scores 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around New Town Row
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is New Town Row a good place to live?
New Town Row scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (97) and transport (76).
It scores lowest on safety (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for New Town Row in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of New Town Row
New Town Row reads as young, dense, and mid-rise: blocks of flats rather than semis, a population whose median age sits in the early twenties, and a street pattern built for people passing through as much as settling in. It's the kind of place where a student or twenty-something renter feels at home and a family house-hunter probably won't linger long.
The transport picture is a real asset — St Chad's, St Paul's, Bull Street and Corporation Street Metro stops all sit close together, backed up by Birmingham Snow Hill for mainline rail, so getting into the city centre is easy without a car. Schools are more mixed: Brearley Nursery School carries an Outstanding rating and St Chad's Catholic Primary is Good, but the secondary picture is patchy — Aston University Engineering Academy posts a below-average Progress 8 score, and the area's overall school grade sits only at B despite that. Housing is where the story sharpens: this is overwhelmingly a flat-and-leasehold market — of the recent sales sampled, the vast majority were flats bought leasehold, freehold barely features. A For Sale board here is almost always advertising a leasehold flat, not a house with a garden, and at a median price well below both the regional and national figures, it's an affordable entry point into Birmingham rather than a long-term family purchase. The five-year price direction is recorded as improving, even if any single year's movement looks modest.