The Marsh
Suburb · 19 residents
74Very 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
- 2 GP practices within a short walk
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 53 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Property market scores 76, 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
- Environment scores 32, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around The Marsh
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is The Marsh a good place to live?
The Marsh scores 74/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for health (86) and safety (77).
It scores lowest on environment (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for The Marsh in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of The Marsh
Detached houses on generous plots, hedgerows rather than pavements in places, and a population so thin you could go a whole outing without queuing behind anyone — The Marsh reads less like a suburb and more like a scattered rural edge that happens to carry a Herefordshire postcode. It's quiet in the way that either settles you or unsettles you, depending on what you're used to.
There's no rail station or school in the picture here, so this isn't a place to judge by commute times or catchment gossip — what you can read is the housing itself, and it tells a clear story: freehold, detached, and dominated by a handful of higher-value sales rather than a flowing market. With a median age over fifty, this is a settled population, not one cycling through rentals or first homes; the sort of place people move to rather than pass through.
The numbers on safety look startling until you remember how small a base you're working from — thirteen incidents in a year sounds low until you realise the population is barely two hundred, which is exactly why the crime rate comes out so far above the Herefordshire average. Violence and sexual offences make up the largest single share, but at this scale a handful of recorded incidents can swing the rate wildly; it's worth treating as noise from a small sample rather than a pattern of danger, especially set against an overall safety grade that sits at the top of the scale. Green space per head is comfortably above both the regional and national norm, so if open land and elbow room matter to you more than footfall, that's the trade this place is making.