Round Green
Suburb · 8,219 residents
62Good
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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 60 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Food & drink scores 21, below the typical 60
- Health scores 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Round Green
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Round Green a good place to live?
Round Green scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (77).
It scores lowest on food & drink (21) and health (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Round Green in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Round Green
Round Green sits on the eastern edge of Luton, and it looks like it — dense rows of semi-detached houses, front gardens converted to parking, the kind of streets where you're rarely more than a few doors from a neighbour who's lived there twenty years. The population density here is more than double the national average, and you feel it: this is a packed-in, terraced-and-semi suburb rather than anything spacious, with the occasional pocket of green breaking up the housing.
A For Sale board on one of these streets is telling you something fairly consistent: semi-detached, freehold, and likely to sell in the £330,000 range, a touch above the going rate for Luton as a whole and above the national semi-detached median too. Nearly nine in ten sales here are freehold, which suits people wanting a proper garden and no service charge rather than flat-dwellers. On schooling, Stopsley High School is rated Good, though its progress8 score is negative, meaning pupils here tend to make somewhat less academic progress than similar pupils elsewhere — worth knowing if you're weighing secondary options rather than just the Ofsted label. The area's own school-quality grade sits comfortably mid-table, roughly matching the national picture rather than standing out either way.
The real story, though, is the gap between how safe the area feels and how well it seems to function day to day. Safety itself grades right at the top, which is notable given the crime rate here runs well above Luton's own borough-wide figure — violence and anti-social behaviour make up over half of recorded incidents, and that's the category worth registering before anything else. Health provision, by contrast, is graded poorly, and nightlife barely registers — this isn't an area built around evening life or extensive medical infrastructure, it's built around living quietly. Green space is thin on the ground relative to the size of the population, though there are a number of small pockets scattered through the suburb rather than one big open space to anchor a weekend around. Connectivity is a genuine strength: full-fibre coverage covers the vast majority of homes, which matters more than it used to for anyone working from home some of the days.