Roberttown in Yorkshire and The Humber has a Check Local Score of 68/100 (good), 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.
Roberttown reads as stone-terrace-and-semi Yorkshire, the kind of place where front gardens are tidy rather than showy and the traffic is mostly people who already live there. It sits just outside Kirklees's bigger towns, and the streets have that settled, older-population feel rather than the churn of a starter-home estate.
The practical picture here is dominated by houses, not commuters or flats. Sales are split fairly evenly between semis and terraces, almost everything is freehold, and new-build is close to nonexistent — this is a resale market of established family homes, not a developer's showground. Prices back that up: a median around £222,500 is well under the national £281,000 and even under the regional average, yet it's still running about 8.5% above the wider Kirklees figure, so within its own patch this counts as a slightly pricier corner rather than a bargain one. Roberttown CofE Primary carries a Good Ofsted rating, and with a median age pushing 49, this looks far more like a place people settle into for the long run than one they pass through on the way up the ladder.
Green space and low density set the daily rhythm — at 529 people per square kilometre it's far quieter than the regional average, and the housing stock's spread of detached, semi and terraced homes suggests gardens and a bit of elbow room rather than tight urban blocks. Full-fibre broadband reaches over 91% of properties, so working from one of those front rooms is a realistic option. The crime figures need reading carefully: the headline count is tiny in absolute terms, but the rate sits far above the Kirklees average, and violence and anti-social behaviour top the list — worth weighing against the otherwise calm, low-density feel rather than dismissing outright. Everything else in the grade profile — connectivity, transport, environment, health — clusters in the B-plus band, comfortably above the national average, with safety sitting in that same range despite the crime-rate flag, which is the one part of the picture that doesn't quite match the rest.
This suits people who want a quiet, established Yorkshire suburb with decent broadband and a Good-rated primary on the doorstep, who don't need much nightlife or new-build gloss, and who are comfortable doing their own homework on the local crime figures before deciding rather than taking the calm streetscape entirely at face value.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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