Ravensworth
Suburb · 51 residents
63Good
Good · better than 6 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
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- Affordability scores 71, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Ravensworth
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Ravensworth a good place to live?
Ravensworth scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (74) and affordability (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ravensworth in North East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ravensworth
Ravensworth reads as terraced streets and semis, the kind of place where the For Sale boards say "freehold" more often than not and nobody's building anything new — not a single new-build in the recent sales sample. It's a small, settled pocket on the edge of Gateshead, with a population you could fit in a couple of large schools, and a median age pushing 43 that tells you this isn't a place in flux. It feels lived-in rather than arrived-in.
The housing story here is really a value story. A median sale price of £190,000 sits well below the national figure, and against Gateshead itself you're paying over a fifth more — so within the borough this is one of the pricier corners, even though nationally it would count as affordable. Terraced houses dominate the market and sell for noticeably less than the national terraced price, semis the same pattern, which suggests a stock of solid older housing rather than anything glossy. Council tax on a Band D property runs a touch above the national median, worth factoring in given the modest price tags. Schooling locally centres on Birtley East Community Primary and St Anne's Catholic Primary, both small community-scale schools rather than large academies, fitting a suburb where most journeys are probably local ones — there's no rail station in the picture here, and with eight transport stops serving the area, this reads as a place built around buses and cars rather than a commuter-rail lifestyle.