Teesside
Suburb · 34 residents
65Good
Good · better than 7 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
- Health scores 88, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 81, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 78, well above the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Teesside
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Teesside a good place to live?
Teesside scores 65/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (88) and transport (81).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Teesside in North East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Teesside
Terraced streets dominate here, tight rows of freehold houses that turn over slowly and rarely see a new build go up between them — this is settled, established Teesside, not a development in progress. The mix of two-up two-downs alongside a handful of semis and detached homes gives the streets a workmanlike, lived-in feel, the kind of place where people buy and stay rather than pass through.
The numbers back that up: nearly every sale here is freehold terraced stock, and at a median price around £150,000, this sits well below both the regional and national averages, over 7% cheaper than the wider Stockton-on-Tees area it belongs to. That affordability is the headline for anyone crunching commute-versus-cost sums, though the payload doesn't give you a station or line to plan a journey round, so this is a picture anchored to the suburb itself rather than a timetable. On schools, Billingham South Community Primary carries an Outstanding rating, which matters if you've got young children and want a strong start close to home; the median age of early forties suggests a fair few families and older residents settled in for the long haul rather than a churn of twenty-somethings.
The overall grade profile reads as solidly above-average — strong marks for affordability, housing and schools, respectable ones for environment and health — but nightlife is the flat note in an otherwise decent chord, a C+ that tells you this isn't a place built around a big night out. Crime is the more interesting thread to pull: the area's own safety grade sits mid-table and trending flat, yet the raw comparison to Stockton-on-Tees shows a rate dramatically higher than the borough average, with violence and sexual offences making up over 40% of incidents and criminal damage and burglary filling out the next tier. That gap between a decent local safety grade and a much rougher borough-relative crime rate is worth sitting with rather than glossing over — it suggests Teesside itself feels more contained and manageable day to day than the wider authority figures imply, but it's not a spotless record either.