Rothwell Haigh
Neighbourhood · 54 residents
49Fair
Fair · better than 1 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
- 93% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 100% of the area
- Health scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Rothwell Haigh
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Rothwell Haigh a good place to live?
Rothwell Haigh scores 49/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for infrastructure (70).
It scores lowest on health (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Rothwell Haigh in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Rothwell Haigh
Rothwell Haigh reads as terraced streets and semis, the kind of housing stock built for working families rather than commuters chasing a view — freehold is the norm here, and when a board goes up outside one of these red-brick terraces, it's advertising a starter home or a downsize, not a statement purchase.
That affordability is the headline, and it's worth sitting with. A median house price well below both the regional and national figures puts this firmly among the more accessible corners of Yorkshire and The Humber, and it undercuts even Leeds itself by close to a fifth. Terraces dominate the sales here, selling for noticeably less than the going terraced rate nationally, which tells you this is a place where a first-time buyer's money still stretches. Set against that, the area sits low on the income and deprivation deciles — near the bottom nationally — so the low prices and the local economic picture are two sides of the same coin, not separate facts. Schools follow a similar shape: Meadowfield Primary and Cockburn Haigh Road Academy are both rated Good, solid and unremarkable in the best sense, though Temple Learning Academy's Requires Improvement rating and its negative progress score for older pupils is the one grade that breaks the pattern and worth knowing about if secondary-age results matter to you. With four transport stops serving the area and a median age of 35.6, this reads as a settled, youngish population getting around locally rather than commuting by rail in any numbers.