Raven Hill
Suburb · 2,511 residents
53Fair
Fair · better than 2 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Schools scores 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Raven Hill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Raven Hill a good place to live?
Raven Hill scores 53/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is safety (68).
It scores lowest on schools (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Raven Hill in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Raven Hill
Semi-detached streets dominate here, pebble-dashed and postwar mostly, with the odd terrace filling the gaps near the main road — this is a suburb built for people who've been in Swansea a while, not people arriving new to it.
The housing tells you most of what you need to know before you even look at the crime figures. A median price of £143,800 sits well below both the Welsh average and, notably, 6% below Swansea itself — this is one of the more affordable corners of the city, and the property mix confirms it: mostly freehold semis, a scattering of terraces and detached houses, nothing new-build. A terraced house here runs at roughly £122,000 against £160,000 across Wales, which is the kind of gap that either excites a first-time buyer or makes them wonder what they're missing. What they're missing, on paper, is safety standing — the area's overall grade sits comfortably in the B+ band, environment and health both score at the top, but safety lags behind at B+ while the numbers underneath it show violence and sexual offences as the single largest share of local crime, and a crime rate running over four times Swansea's own average. That's the one grade in an otherwise strong constellation that doesn't match the pattern, and it's worth sitting with rather than skating past.
Schooling is thin on the ground in the immediate area — Cadle Primary and Gendros Primary both serve the community here, sizeable schools by primary standards, though neither carries a published Estyn rating in this data, so you'd want to check current inspection reports directly rather than assume. Transport is workable rather than notable: nearly thirty stops scattered through the suburb suggest a bus-first pattern of life rather than a rail commute, and full fibre reaching over 80% of properties means working from home is a realistic option if the daily trip into the city centre isn't appealing. Green space is modest — seven pockets adding up to around ten hectares, a bit above the national rate per head but not the kind of provision that invites a big Saturday walk, more the sort of thing you'd use for a dog or a shortcut.