Oldbury Court Estate
Neighbourhood · 399 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
- 100% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 93% of the area
- Health scores 20, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Oldbury Court Estate
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Oldbury Court Estate a good place to live?
Oldbury Court Estate scores 45/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (89).
It scores lowest on health (20).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Oldbury Court Estate in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Oldbury Court Estate
Semi-detached houses dominate the streets here, most of them owned outright rather than rented, and the mix of flats and family homes tells you this is a settled corner rather than a transient one. It sits at the edge of Bristol's built-up area, with the kind of low-rise, garden-fronted look that suggests people move in and stay.
The practical picture is workable rather than glamorous. Two bus stops serve the immediate area, so a car matters more here than a rail season ticket. Begbrook Primary Academy, rated Good, covers the family end of things, and with a median age of 35 this reads as a place with younger households and children rather than retirees. Housing is solidly semi-detached and freehold — three-quarters of recent sales were freehold stock — which is the classic "settle down and stay" tenure pattern, and at a median price a touch below both the Bristol and national averages, it's a slightly better-value entry point into the city than most of its neighbours.
Green space and local amenity aren't detailed in depth here, but the housing and school pattern suggests weekends built around the garden, the school run, and short trips rather than a café-and-restaurant scene on the doorstep. Healthcare and connectivity grade in the solid-but-unremarkable B/C+ band, full fibre broadband reaches most homes, and the general infrastructure grades sit comfortably mid-table nationally.