Sidemoor
Suburb · 74 residents
51Fair
Fair · better than 2 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: 81 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Road noise reaches 99% of the area
- Health scores 9, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 16, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Sidemoor
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Sidemoor a good place to live?
Sidemoor scores 51/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (80).
It scores lowest on health (9) and food & drink (16).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Sidemoor in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Sidemoor
Sidemoor is a dense pocket of semis and terraces packed tightly together, the sort of streetscape where front gardens are short and neighbours know each other's cars. It reads as an ordinary, lived-in suburb rather than anywhere styled for visitors — no obvious high-street pull, just houses doing what houses do.
The property picture is the clearest signal here: semi-detached homes on freehold titles dominate what's sold, and at a median around £246,000 that's roughly a quarter below what you'd pay across Bromsgrove as a whole. For a first-time buyer or someone trading up from a flat, that gap is the headline. It sits, income-wise, towards the less affluent end nationally, and the wider deprivation picture places it in the more deprived third of the country — worth sitting with, even though the streets themselves don't announce it. The median age of 34 points to a working-age, possibly younger-family population rather than a retirement pocket, and rents near £980 a month track a little below the national figure.
Safety is where the data does something unexpected. Against an overall grade that sits comfortably above the national average, safety actually grades higher still, and it's held flat rather than drifting either way. Look closer at the crime mix, though, and violence and sexual offences account for well over half of recorded incidents — a concentration worth registering rather than a reason for alarm on its own, since anti-social behaviour and criminal damage trail well behind it. Connectivity is solid too: full fibre reaches the large majority of properties, which matters if working from one of those semis is part of the plan.