Palmers Cross
Suburb · 901 residents
59Good
Good · better than 5 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 82, well above the typical 60
- 96% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
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- Food & drink scores 20, below the typical 60
- Health scores 22, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Palmers Cross
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Palmers Cross a good place to live?
Palmers Cross scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (82) and infrastructure (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (20) and health (22).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Palmers Cross in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Palmers Cross
Palmers Cross reads as solid, semi-detached Wolverhampton suburbia — pebble-dashed and brick-fronted streets, hedges kept trim, cars on drives rather than kerbs. It's the kind of place where the median resident is pushing 47, considerably older than the national average, and where you sense people move in and stay rather than pass through.
That settled feel shows up in the numbers around it. This sits in the better-off third of the country on deprivation, and house prices at a quarter-million-plus put it a third higher than Wolverhampton as a whole — a For Sale board here most often means a freehold semi, since that's what four in five sales are, with detached homes at the top end fetching well over £500k. Schools are where the area genuinely shines: the overall grade for education is among the strongest you'll see, even though the numbers underneath — Aldersley High School's progress scores, for instance — are more modest than the letter grade alone suggests, a reminder that "outstanding" reputations and outcome data don't always move in lockstep. Transport is the flip side: connectivity into homes is excellent (full fibre reaches nearly everyone), but getting out of the area by public transport is the weakest mark on the whole report card, so this leans on car ownership more than train timetables.
Green space is modest but present — a single named area of just over ten hectares, enough for a dog walk or a Saturday kickabout rather than a proper ramble. There isn't much of a restaurant or café scene to speak of in the data, which matches the quiet-residential character rather than contradicting it; this isn't a destination high street, it's a place you come home to. Crime sits above the Wolverhampton average on paper, and violent and sexual offences make up the majority share of incidents — worth sitting with rather than dismissing, though the safety grade itself lands solidly mid-table nationally and the trend line is improving, not worsening, so the direction of travel is the more useful signal than the raw count.