The Green
Suburb · 162 residents
73Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- Schools scores 89, well above the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 88, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 73, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Infrastructure scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is The Green a good place to live?
The Green scores 73/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for schools (89) and food & drink (88).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for The Green in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of The Green
The Green sits within Powys, and that alone tells you most of what you need to know before you've seen a single street: this is rural mid-Wales, not a commuter suburb or a town centre with a high street to define it. No settlement of this size hands you a run of chain shops or a defined civic core — what you get instead is a scatter of houses, working countryside, and the kind of quiet that people either crave or find unsettling within a fortnight.
There is no local data available for The Green itself beyond its location within Powys, which is honest but limiting — no crime figures, no school ratings, no verified house prices for this specific locality. What we can say comes from the county it sits in. Powys carries a median house price around £245,000, close to the Welsh average of £208,000 but not wildly out of step with it, and a crime rate of roughly 78 per 1,000 that sits in the normal range for a sparsely populated rural county rather than flagging anything alarming. Neither figure is unusual enough to build a story on, but together they suggest a place that is neither a bargain nor a hotspot — solidly ordinary by rural Welsh standards.
Beyond that, I'd be guessing, and a decision like moving somewhere deserves better than a guess dressed up as local knowledge. If you're weighing up The Green specifically, the honest next step is to look at the nearest town for schools, transport and day-to-day services, since a locality this size will lean on its neighbours for most of what daily life actually requires.