Skelton
Town · 6,389 residents
58Good
Good · better than 2 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Environment scores 78, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 73, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Skelton
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Skelton a good place to live?
Skelton scores 58/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (78) and affordability (73).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Skelton in North East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Skelton
Terraced stone and brick rows dominate the streets here, the kind of housing stock that has been lived in rather than staged, and the mix of ages on the pavement — prams, dog walkers, older residents doing the shopping run — tells you this is a settled village rather than a commuter dormitory. At a median age of 41, Skelton sits close to the national average, and the population density, lower than both the regional and national norm despite the terraced density of the core streets, suggests a place that spreads out more than it first appears.
The numbers around property here tell a clear story: this is a Freehold-dominated, terraced-heavy market, and a For Sale board on one of these streets is overwhelmingly likely to be advertising exactly that — modest terraces trading at roughly £92,500 against a national terraced median well over double that, and detached homes similarly priced well under what you'd pay elsewhere. Against the wider Redcar and Cleveland authority, Skelton actually commands a premium of around 7.6% on price, which for a village of this size says something about its standing within the borough even as it remains inexpensive by national standards. Skelton Primary School is the one school in the immediate picture, an academy serving a sizeable 474 pupils, though no Ofsted rating is listed to give you the usual shorthand on quality. On transport, the absence of a named rail station in the data means this reads as a bus-and-car village — 48 local stops suggest reasonable coverage, but anyone needing a regular rail commute should treat that as an open question rather than an assumption.