Whitworth Terrace
Suburb · 608 residents
52Fair
Fair · better than 2 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
- Environment scores 78, well above the typical 60
- Schools scores 72, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 71, 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
- Health scores 22, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Whitworth Terrace
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Whitworth Terrace a good place to live?
Whitworth Terrace scores 52/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (78) and schools (72).
It scores lowest on health (22).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Whitworth Terrace in Wales, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Whitworth Terrace
Rows of terraced housing dominate here, close-packed and mostly Victorian in character, the kind of street where the front door opens straight onto the pavement and everyone's bins go out on the same morning. It's a small, settled pocket of Blaenau Gwent — just over 600 people, an average age nudging 43 — and it reads less like a place people pass through than one where they've put down roots and stayed.
For families, the picture is straightforward rather than sprawling: Georgetown Junior and Infants covers primary years and Tredegar Comprehensive takes it from there, both community schools of a decent size rather than tiny village outfits. There's no rail station in the frame here, so this is a place built around car and bus journeys rather than a commuter line into a city. Housing is almost entirely terraced and freehold — of the recent sales, the vast majority were terraces, and every single one was bought outright rather than leasehold — which tells you this is a street of owner-occupiers rather than flats-and-landlords territory. Prices sit well below the Welsh average, with terraces here trading noticeably cheaper than the typical Welsh terrace, and the whole area's median price is a shade below the Blaenau Gwent norm too. On paper it's one of the more affordable corners of the country; on the ground, that shows up as modest, unpretentious streets rather than anything visibly rundown.