Trench Lock
Suburb · 551 residents
55Good
Good · better than 3 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
- Property market scores 77, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 71, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 45 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 22, below the typical 60
- Health scores 32, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Trench Lock
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Is Trench Lock a good place to live?
Trench Lock scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for property market (77) and affordability (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (22) and health (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Trench Lock in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Trench Lock
Trench Lock reads as a estate of detached and semi-detached houses, the kind of streets where driveways outnumber parked cars and most doors are freehold-owned rather than rented. It sits within Telford and Wrekin, close enough to the new town's road network to feel connected without ever quite feeling urban, and the mix of ages skews younger than the national picture — this is a place with families and working-age households rather than a retirement pocket.
On paper the safety picture looks reassuring, and locally it earns the area's strongest grade, but the crime rate here actually runs well above the wider Telford and Wrekin average, driven mostly by violence and anti-social behaviour rather than burglary or car crime — worth sitting with rather than dismissing, even though the trend has stayed flat rather than worsening. Schools carry a more middling grade than the rest of the profile, which is the one soft spot in an otherwise strong set of marks — housing, affordability and transport connectivity all land well above the national average, while health services and nightlife options are more average than exceptional. Housing itself is affordable by comparison with the country as a whole: a median price around £220,000 sits well under the national £281,000 benchmark, though it runs slightly ahead of the wider borough, and detached houses here sell for notably less than the national detached average — a sign this is a value corner of a value region rather than a premium one.