Pallion
Suburb · 3,494 residents
50Fair
Fair · better than 1 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
- Affordability scores 81, well above the typical 60
- 6 GP practices within a short walk
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- Food & drink scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Pallion
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Pallion a good place to live?
Pallion scores 50/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (81) and health (77).
It scores lowest on food & drink (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Pallion in North East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Pallion
Pallion is terraced streets, front doors onto the pavement, and the kind of housing stock that was built for shipyard and factory workers rather than commuters chasing a view. Walk along the main roads and you'll see a lot of freehold terraces, a handful of semis, and not much else — this is a place with one dominant property type, not a mixed portfolio, and that gives it a consistent, unpretentious character rather than a patchwork feel.
The practical picture here is unusually affordable set against unusually good transport for the price. A terraced house carries a median price nowhere near the national terraced median, and the area's own median house price sits at a fraction of the England-wide figure — this is a place graded A for affordability, and the numbers back that up. What it isn't short of is ways out: both Pallion and South Hylton have their own Tyne and Wear Metro stations, which is a rare density of rail-equivalent transport for a suburb this size, and it's part of why the connectivity and transport grades sit well above the safety and schools grades. On schooling, Castle View Enterprise Academy and Southwick Community Primary both carry Good Ofsted ratings, so a family here isn't gambling on the secondary or the primary — though the negative progress 8 score at Castle View is worth knowing rather than glossing over.
Green space is thin — three plots totalling a little over five hectares, well under both the regional and national averages per head — so this isn't an area that trades on parks or long dog walks; the appeal, such as it is, sits in the practicalities of transport and price rather than the weekend outdoors. Crime is the honest complication in the picture: violence and sexual offences and shoplifting together account for around half of all recorded crime, and the crime rate itself runs sharply above the Sunderland average, even though the area's own trend is marked as improving. That's the one grade — safety sitting at B against an overall B+ and an A for affordability and health — that doesn't quite match the rest of the pattern, and it's worth sitting with rather than skipping past.