Springfield Park
Suburb · 1,516 residents
60Good
Good · better than 5 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
- Affordability scores 72, well above the typical 60
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- Road noise reaches 91% of the area
- Food & drink scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Springfield Park
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Springfield Park a good place to live?
Springfield Park scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (72).
It scores lowest on food & drink (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Springfield Park in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Springfield Park
Springfield Park is the kind of suburb where semi-detached houses sit on quiet streets, gardens are modest but well-kept, and you're more likely to pass someone walking a dog than see much footfall on a high street. It reads as settled rather than up-and-coming — an older population than the national norm, and a density that suggests terraces and semis rather than flats stacked over shops.
The housing picture matches: this is overwhelmingly a semi-detached, freehold market, with detached and terraced homes making up most of the rest and barely any flats or leasehold to speak of. A For Sale board here signals a family or a downsizing couple buying outright, not a landlord or a first-time buyer chasing a leasehold flat. Prices sit close to the surrounding district — a touch above Erewash overall — and well under the national median, which fits an area in the middling-to-comfortable band nationally rather than an expensive one. Schools are more mixed than the rest of the picture: Risley Lower Grammar CE Primary holds a Good rating, but English Martyrs' Catholic Voluntary Academy was rated as requiring improvement, and a couple of the other local schools, including Longmoor Primary, don't carry a current published rating at all. It's not a place to assume every school nearby will satisfy an anxious parent without checking further.
Green space is thin on the ground — a single named area covering a little over a hectare, well short of what you'd find regionally per head of population — so day-to-day life leans more on the home and garden than on parkland. That scarcity is really the one sour note in an otherwise calm profile: safety sits comfortably above the national average, connectivity and broadband are strong (full fibre reaches the vast majority of homes), and the overall grade lands solidly mid-to-upper tier. Violence and sexual offences make up the largest single share of recorded crime, which is worth knowing, though the trend here is flat rather than worsening — this is a place holding steady, not tipping either way.