Upper Ettingshall
Suburb · 820 residents
55Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- 96% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 23, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Upper Ettingshall
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Upper Ettingshall a good place to live?
Upper Ettingshall scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for infrastructure (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (23).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Upper Ettingshall in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Upper Ettingshall
Terraced streets, tight-packed and dense, with the kind of density figure that tells you before anything else does — this is a compact, urban corner of the Black Country rather than a suburb with room to breathe. Rows of freehold terraces dominate, the sort of streets where a For Sale board tends to mean a two-up-two-down changing hands between owner-occupiers rather than landlords, and where the population density running well above both the regional and national average shapes everything else about how the place feels underfoot.
This is not a wealthy corner of the country, and it's worth saying plainly: income and deprivation figures put Upper Ettingshall among the more disadvantaged areas nationally, and the sale prices bear that out — a median around £150,000, sitting in the bottom slice of the national price spread and comfortably below the Wolverhampton borough figure. Yet the school picture cuts sharply against that grain. Manor Primary School, rated Outstanding, is the sort of result that makes people stay put even when other numbers point elsewhere — a genuine out-of-pattern strength in an area that isn't otherwise flush. Transport is the weaker link here; without a strong rail or bus showing, this reads as a place you get around by car or on foot rather than one built around a commute.
Green space is scarce — a single plot of under half a hectare serves the whole area, so this isn't a place for long dog walks from the doorstep, and you'd be looking further afield for that kind of weekend release. What stands out instead, and what most people ask about first, is safety, and the story there is better than the raw crime figures might first suggest: violence and sexual offences account for the bulk of recorded incidents, as they do almost everywhere, but the overall crime rate sits dramatically below the Wolverhampton average, and the trend line is described as improving rather than static. That's a meaningful signal in an area with this population density — tightly packed streets often run hotter on crime, not cooler.