Tanners Brook
Neighbourhood · 7 residents
48Fair
Fair · better than 1 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Flood risk: 23% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Health scores 30, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Tanners Brook
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Tanners Brook a good place to live?
Tanners Brook scores 48/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is affordability (68).
It scores lowest on health (30).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Tanners Brook in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Tanners Brook
Tanners Brook is a dense pocket of flats and semis packed into just over a square kilometre, closer in feel to inner-city terracing than the South East's commuter-belt image — the sort of place where you notice how tightly the streets sit together before you notice anything else. It attracts a working-age, youngish crowd rather than families settling in for the long haul; the median age here is under 38, several years younger than the regional norm, and the flat-heavy housing stock backs that up.
The practical picture is mixed in a way that rewards a closer look rather than a glance at the headline grade. Two rail stations, Millbrook and Redbridge, give you options for getting into Southampton without a car, and connectivity here is genuinely strong — full fibre reaches the vast majority of homes, which matters if you work from home some of the week. Schools are a thinner story: Tanners Brook Primary is the named option and it's an academy without a published Ofsted rating in this data, so you'd want to visit rather than take a grade on faith. Housing is where the numbers get interesting — the median price sits close to the national average and noticeably below both the regional figure and the wider Southampton benchmark, but the property mix tells the real story: flats dominate the sales here yet sell for well under the national flat price, while the smaller number of semis and terraces actually fetch a premium over their national equivalents. A "for sale" board here most often means a leasehold flat priced to move, sitting alongside a minority of freehold houses that hold their value better.