Tardebigge
Village · 408 residents
80Very good
Very good · better than 9 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 34 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Environment scores 82, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Tardebigge
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Tardebigge a good place to live?
Tardebigge scores 80/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (84) and environment (82).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Tardebigge in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Tardebigge
Detached houses behind hedges, gravel drives, the odd horsebox parked up — this is the kind of village where you notice the cars before you notice the people. Tardebigge sits up on the ridge above the Worcester and Birmingham Canal's famous flight of locks, and that geography tells you most of what you need to know: it's a scattering of well-kept homes and farmland rather than a place with a high street, and it draws people who've already done the hard climbing on the property ladder rather than those starting out.
The numbers on schooling and housing point the same way. Tardebigge CofE First School, rated Good, serves the youngest children here, and with a median age of just over 40 you're looking at a village of settled families and older professionals rather than a first-rung commuter suburb. That reading fits the housing stock: this is Detached, Freehold territory almost without exception — eighteen of nineteen recent sales were freehold, and detached homes dominate the market at a median price well above both the regional and national detached averages. A For Sale board here is advertising space and permanence, not a starter flat. At a median of £440,000, against Bromsgrove's own median of £335,000, you're paying roughly a third more to be in Tardebigge rather than the wider district it sits within — and Bromsgrove itself isn't cheap by national standards. This is a decile 9 area for both income and general deprivation, which puts it among the better-off pockets of the West Midlands by a clear margin.