Guides · 2026-10-22
Is Beeston a nice place to live? What the official figures say
Beeston has a GP within 0.1 km of its centre, 47 bus stops within a 10-minute walk and the most green space of its neighbours. We compare it with Chilwell, Bramcote, Attenborough, Toton and Stapleford using official data.
"Is Beeston nice?" is a question a lot of people ask when they are thinking of moving near Nottingham, and the honest answer is that it depends what you need day to day. What we can do is show the official figures for Beeston beside the places people usually compare it with.
Beeston and its neighbours
| Place | Crime per 1,000 residents a year | Schools within 3 km | Bus stops within 800 m | Nearest GP | Green space | Postcodes at medium or high flood risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beeston | 96 | 18 | 47 | 0.1 km | 28.4% | 3.5% |
| Chilwell | 87 | 22 | 25 | 0.7 km | 22.3% | 3.5% |
| Bramcote | 82 | 26 | 25 | 0.3 km | 21.4% | 4% |
| Attenborough | 108 | 15 | 20 | 0.7 km | 22.4% | 3.2% |
| Toton | 87 | 25 | 48 | 0.1 km | 20% | 3.9% |
| Stapleford | 75 | 22 | 29 | 0.2 km | 18.2% | 3.9% |
What stands out
- Everyday convenience. Beeston and Toton have the closest GP of the six, 0.1 km from the centre, and Beeston has 47 bus stops within an 800 m walk; only Toton, with 48, has more of the six.
- Green space. 28.4% of the area within 3 km is parks, woods or public green space, the highest of the six.
- Recorded crime. Beeston's 96 reports per 1,000 residents is the second highest of the six. Stapleford (75), Bramcote (82), Chilwell and Toton (both 87) are lower; Attenborough (108) is higher, though its 3 km circle takes in parts of Beeston and Chilwell too.
- Broadband. About 92.8% of homes in the area can get gigabit broadband, the same Ofcom postcode district figure as Chilwell, Bramcote, Attenborough, Toton and Stapleford.
- Flood risk is low across all six, between 3.2% and 4% of nearby postcodes, but check the exact address if you are looking near the Trent.
If you want to walk to the doctor, catch a bus without planning ahead and have parks close by, Beeston does well on the figures. If lower recorded crime matters more, Stapleford, Bramcote, Chilwell and Toton all record less per resident. PlaceFit lets you weight each of these for yourself and see which comes out ahead for you.
Crime figures are reports to the police per resident, not a measure of how safe a street feels. Each place is measured over the 2021 neighbourhoods centred within about 3 km, so neighbouring places share some of the same records, and anywhere close to a busy centre has a higher rate per resident because more people pass through than live there.
Beeston in full · Chilwell · Bramcote · Stapleford · Compare them against your own priorities
Figures as published on PlaceFit's area pages on 22 October 2026, measured over about 3 km around each place's centre unless stated. Sources: police.uk street-level crime and anti-social behaviour, September 2025 to August 2026, per Census 2021 resident; Get Information about Schools (DfE); NaPTAN bus stops (DfT), within 800 m; NHS England GP practices and branch surgeries (ODS), straight-line distance; Ofcom Connected Nations (broadband July 2025, by postcode district); OS Open Greenspace and OS Open Zoomstack; Environment Agency Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.