Redfield in South West has a Check Local Score of 47/100 (fair), drawn from official data on safety, schools, transport, housing, amenities and the local environment, each measured against the national average — a score of 60 is typical for the country.
Terraced streets pack in tight here, red-brick rows running off the main roads with a corner shop rhythm rather than a proper high street — the kind of place that reads as inner-city Bristol rather than commuter suburb, and the population density backs that up at over three times the national average. It's a young-ish crowd too, median age 35 against a national 40, the sort of area that fills up with sharers and first-buyers rather than settled families.
The property picture matches the streetscape: nearly all sales are terraces, the market is overwhelmingly freehold, and at a median of £339,296 you're paying close to what you'd pay across Bristol as a whole, though technically a shade under it. That's odd for an area sitting at income decile 3 and deprivation decile 4 — the housing market here hasn't followed the area's wider economic standing down, which tells you something about demand outstripping the numbers you'd expect. Schools are a mixed bag: St Patrick's Catholic Primary holds a Good rating, but Redfield Educate Together Primary Academy was rated Requires Improvement, so it's worth knowing which catchment a given street sits in before you commit. With only 11 transport stops and no rail count given, this reads as a bus-and-bike area rather than a rail-commuter one.
Green space is modest — eight plots totalling 16 hectares, thin for the population packed around them — but the nightlife grade sits at A, well above the national average, which is really the tell for how people spend their time here: eating and drinking out rather than picnicking. The safety grade, by contrast, sits at C+, and the crime rate is dramatically higher than the Bristol-wide figure, driven hard by violence and sexual offences at a third of all recorded crime, with shoplifting and anti-social behaviour close behind. That's the one grade that breaks the pattern against an otherwise solid set of B's for housing, connectivity and environment, and it's worth sitting with rather than skating past — this is a place that scores well on infrastructure and feel but asks you to accept a real trade-off on personal safety data.
This suits someone who wants city-centre energy on a terraced-house budget and doesn't mind a livelier crime profile in exchange for it — a young professional or sharer more than a family chasing a quiet garden. If a school with a stronger inspection history and a genuinely quiet street matter more to you than proximity to the bars, it's worth walking the specific block before you sign anything, because Redfield's character changes noticeably from one row to the next.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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