Stubber's Green
Suburb · 558 residents
53Fair
Fair · better than 2 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 27, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 34, below the typical 60
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Around Stubber's Green
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Is Stubber's Green a good place to live?
Stubber's Green scores 53/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is environment (66).
It scores lowest on health (27) and food & drink (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Stubber's Green in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Stubber's Green
Streets here are low, semi-detached, and unremarkable in the best sense — pebble-dashed fronts, the odd extension, cars parked nose-to-kerb rather than in garages. It's the kind of place that doesn't perform for visitors because it isn't built for them; the population is small and the median age sits in the mid-forties, which tells you this is a settled, rather than transient, corner of Walsall.
The practical picture is mixed and worth sitting with. Radleys Primary School, rated Good, is the one named school in the mix, and there's nothing here pointing to a rail station, so anyone commuting by train will be looking beyond the immediate area rather than relying on a walk-up option. What you can say with more confidence is what a For Sale board means on these streets: semi-detached, freehold, nearly always — Walsall's terraced-and-semi housing stock rather than anything grander, and prices that sit only modestly above the borough average despite Stubber's Green being noticeably cheaper than the national picture. A typical semi here sells for around £217,500 against a national median nearer £273,000 for the same type, so this reads as an affordable entry point rather than a stretch purchase.
Green space is thin — two plots covering under three hectares — so this isn't an area built around park life or long dog walks; it's a place you live in rather than linger around outdoors. That scarcity, paired with the fact that nightlife and transport both grade only as C, suggests evenings and weekends are spent elsewhere, in neighbouring parts of Walsall or further into Birmingham, rather than on the doorstep. The one grade that jars against an otherwise solid B-band picture is safety, which actually holds up better than you'd expect for the area — flat over time, not worsening — even though the local crime rate sits well above Walsall's borough-wide figure. Violence and sexual offences account for the largest single share of recorded crime, which is worth knowing rather than dwelling on: it's the headline category almost everywhere, and the trend itself isn't moving in the wrong direction.