Newstead
Suburb · 745 residents
54Fair
Fair · 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
- Environment scores 70, 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
- Food & drink scores 37, below the typical 60
- Health scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Newstead
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Newstead a good place to live?
Newstead scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (37) and health (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Newstead in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Newstead
Newstead's terraces and semis sit close together on tight streets, the kind of place where a £130,000 semi is unremarkable and nobody's driveway has a new-build gloss to it — there's been no new-build activity here at all recently. It reads as a settled, working suburb rather than a commuter dormitory or a showcase estate, and the streetscape backs that up: solid brick housing stock, modest gardens, cars parked close.
On paper this is one of the more affordable corners of the country — the typical home sells for well under half the national median, and even against its Wakefield parent it's running a third cheaper. That affordability is tied to a harder truth: Newstead sits in the most deprived decile nationally for both income and general deprivation, which is the quiet spine underneath an otherwise decent set of marks for housing, connectivity and affordability. Crime is the other side of that coin — the overall safety grade holds up reasonably, and the trend is flat rather than worsening, but violent and sexual offences account for over half of recorded crime, well above what you'd expect for a B-grade area, and the local rate runs multiples higher than the Wakefield average. It's not a place that feels unsafe day to day, but it's not a statistic to wave away either.
Family life here looks straightforward rather than aspirational: median age is 43, a touch older than the regional norm, and the schooling picture is solid-Good rather than outstanding — Outwood Primary Academy Newstead Green and South Hiendley Primary School both carry Good ratings, workaday local options rather than feeder schools for ambition. Housing is overwhelmingly freehold semi-detached, bought rather than rented, which suggests people settle here rather than pass through — turnover is lower than the national average, reinforcing that sense of a static, rooted population.