Restalrig

Restalrig's tenements and terraces sit tight against each other, the kind of density you feel as soon as you're off the main road — a suburb built for people, not driveways, and it shows in how close everything sits to everything else.

The housing grade here is the standout, sitting well above the Scotland-wide average, and a median price a shade under £300,000 tells you this is still an affordable corner of Edinburgh rather than one of its showcase streets. That affordability tracks with the wider numbers: this is an area in the lower-middle band for income nationally, and the deprivation ranking sits at the midpoint rather than the top or bottom — a place of modest means rather than hardship, and the housing stock reflects that ordinariness more than any struggle. With only two schools recorded locally, this reads as a place where families rely on options beyond the immediate streets rather than a self-contained school catchment — worth checking rather than assuming.

The green space is real and used — eight separate spaces adding up to over 40 hectares, enough that you're never far from grass even among the tenements, which matters given how tightly packed the population is here, well above both the Scottish average and most suburbs you'd compare it to. Connectivity is a genuine strength too, with full fibre reaching the large majority of homes, so working from a tenement flat here is a realistic proposition rather than a compromise. The one grade that jars against this otherwise solid picture is health, sitting at a D against an environment and connectivity grade both comfortably above average — the kind of gap worth asking a local GP practice about directly rather than assuming from the surrounding scores.