Stow Park
Suburb · 1,258 residents
53Fair
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
- Food & drink scores 86, well above the typical 60
- 4 GP practices within a short walk
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Safety scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Stow Park
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Stow Park a good place to live?
Stow Park scores 53/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (86) and health (80).
It scores lowest on safety (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Stow Park in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Stow Park
Terraced streets packed tight around Newport city centre, flats above shopfronts, the odd Victorian semi holding out — Stow Park has the density of a place built before the car, and it still moves that way. You'll see a mix here: older residents who've been on the same street for decades, younger renters drawn by the price, a fair number of flats turning over. It doesn't read as a destination so much as a place people live because it's central and it works.
The numbers back up that impression of an established, unglamorous middle. A three-bedroom semi here fetches around £287,500 against a Welsh average nearer £210,000 for the same type — this pocket of Newport actually commands a premium on houses even though the overall median sits about 7.5% below the wider Newport figure, dragged down by flats trading at roughly half the national flat price. That gap tells its own story: houses hold value, flats don't, and the freehold-dominated, semi-detached character of most sales here means the houses are what people are actually competing for. Council tax on a Band D property runs a touch above the Welsh median, in keeping with a spot that's neither cheap nor smart. On schools, the picture is thinner — Clytha, Pillgwenlly and St. Woolos primaries serve the area as community schools, and Estyn doesn't grade on the same scale as England's Ofsted, so take the "Outstanding" instinct out of your head here and judge on catchment and size instead; Pillgwenlly's roll of over 650 pupils marks it out as one of the bigger primaries you'd be dealing with.