Suburb · 27 residents
Fair · among the lowest-scoring suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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Plough Hill scores 42/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is property market (68).
It scores lowest on health (12) and food & drink (20).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Plough Hill in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Detached houses on generous plots, most of them privately owned outright, set the tone here — this is a corner of Nuneaton and Bedworth built around families who've traded a longer commute for a bigger garden. You won't find flats or rented terraces dominating the street; the eighteen recorded sales are almost entirely detached freehold homes, which tells you what kind of buyer this place is built for.
The housing picture backs that up. A median price around £339,000 sits well above the £215,000 typical for the wider district — roughly 58% higher — and detached homes here actually undercut the national detached average, which suggests you're paying for space and setting rather than postcode prestige. Council tax band D costs slightly less than the regional norm too. Schools-wise, Galley Common Infant School carries a Good Ofsted rating, and with a median age of 38.6 — younger than both the regional and national averages — this reads as a place where family life is the organising principle, even without a rail station on the doorstep to anchor a commuter crowd.
Day-to-day, the area's broadband is solid rather than exceptional — nearly seven in ten homes have full fibre — and the general grading pattern across health, environment and housing sits comfortably at "above average" (B+ territory) for England. Nightlife is the outlier here, marked down against everything else, which fits a suburb that's quiet rather than social; if you want an evening out, you're leaving the immediate area to find it. Safety reads as stable rather than improving or worsening, and while violence and sexual offences make up the largest single share of recorded crime, the raw numbers involved are low enough that this shouldn't dominate your decision — it's the composition of a small dataset, not a pattern of danger.
This suits someone who has already decided they want a family house with room to grow, is comfortable driving rather than relying on trains, and values a settled, unremarkable street over an evening scene. It's less suited to anyone wanting nightlife on tap or a dense, walkable centre — you'd regret it if you moved here expecting either.
Data last updated: 19 October 2026
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