New Town
Suburb · 344 residents
45Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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
- Affordability scores 84, well above the typical 60
- 94% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 81% of the area
- Health scores 13, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is New Town a good place to live?
New Town scores 45/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (84) and infrastructure (70).
It scores lowest on health (13) and food & drink (14).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for New Town in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of New Town
Semi-detached brick houses, front gardens kept neat rather than showy, cars on the drive rather than the street — New Town has the settled, unremarkable look of a place people move to rather than through. At 344 people it's small enough that you'd start recognising faces within a few weeks, and the streets read as comfortably established rather than in transition.
This is one of the better-off corners of Wakefield by most measures — income and deprivation both sit in the top tenth nationally, and the affordability grade reflects it, though "affordable" here is relative: the median sale price of £207,250 is actually below both the Wakefield and national averages, which tells you this is a place where more money buys more house, not less. Every recorded sale in the sample was freehold, split between semi-detached and detached homes, so a for sale board here means a proper house with its own walls and its own garden, not a flat share of a building. There's no rail station or school named in what I can see for this specific patch, so if commuting or catchment is your priority, you'll want to check what's genuinely reachable rather than assume — but the full-fibre coverage is close to universal, which matters more than it used to for anyone working from home.
The green space and connectivity grades both come out strong, and with over 92% full-fibre coverage plus decile-9 income, this reads as a comfortable, well-connected suburb rather than a lively one — there's no named restaurant or venue in the picture, which fits a place built around home life more than a night out. Crime is the one figure worth sitting with: the safety grade is a solid B, but violence and sexual offences make up over half of recorded incidents, and the area's overall crime rate runs 96.8% higher than the Wakefield average — a startling number that sits oddly against everything else here. Locally the trend is flat, and with only 15 incidents across the year in a small population, a handful of cases can swing the percentage hard, but it's worth understanding the context if it's on your mind.