Wrekin View
Suburb · 28 residents
53Fair
Fair · better than 2 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 21, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 29, below the typical 60
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Is Wrekin View a good place to live?
Wrekin View scores 53/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is affordability (69).
It scores lowest on health (21) and food & drink (29).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Wrekin View in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Wrekin View
Wrekin View is mostly semis and terraces on quiet residential streets, the kind of place where the median resident is pushing 51 rather than raising toddlers — this is a settled, older-skewing pocket of Telford rather than a young family magnet, even though the density here is only a little lighter than the national average for suburbs of its kind.
On paper the crime figures need a health warning: the year's total sits at just three incidents, so the headline "violence and sexual offences make up 61% of crime" is really a handful of cases wearing a big percentage, not a pattern of danger — and against the parent authority of Telford and Wrekin the safety grade holds up as a B+ with a flat trend, which tells you more than the raw share-of-crime figure does. Schools are the softer spot in the picture: Haberdashers' Abraham Darby, the secondary in the sample, carries a "Requires improvement" Ofsted rating and a progress8 score well below zero, and Woodlands Primary's rating isn't recorded here — against an overall B grade for the area, that C+ for schools is the one grade that doesn't match the rest of the story, and it's worth sitting with if you have school-age children. Housing, meanwhile, is unglamorous but honest: the sales sample is small, but it leans heavily towards freehold semi-detached and terraced houses, with a median price of £200,000 sitting a touch below what the wider borough commands — this is a place to buy a modest freehold rather than chase anything new-build, since none of the recent sales here were new construction.