Aldershot
Town · 39,783 residents
56Good
Good · better than 1 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 63% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Aldershot
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Aldershot a good place to live?
Aldershot scores 56/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (78).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Aldershot in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Aldershot
Aldershot's streets mix red-brick terraces, ex-military housing, and the sort of dense, low-rise semis that speak to a town built up in waves rather than planned in one go. It's a garrison town at heart, and that history still shows in the mix of people: young families, forces personnel and ex-forces households, and commuters who've been priced out of the more expensive parts of the region without wanting to leave it altogether. The population density here is well above the national average, and it feels it — this is a compact, busy town rather than a spread-out suburb.
The practicals hang together in a way that suits a certain kind of commuter. Aldershot Rail Station anchors the town, and with a median age of 37.4 this is a working-age, family-forming sort of place rather than a retirement one. Schooling is more mixed than the town's other numbers suggest — St Joseph's Catholic Primary School holds an Outstanding rating and is the standout, but the average Ofsted score across the eleven schools sits close to the national average, and Alderwood School's progress 8 score of -0.59 is a real weak point for parents of secondary-age children to weigh up. Housing itself tells a more reassuring story: semi-detached freeholds dominate the market, prices sit close to both the Rushmoor district and national medians, and the five-year trajectory has been essentially flat — this isn't a town where you're betting on rapid change either way.
Green space is genuinely plentiful for the size of the place — 75 sites across nearly 59 hectares gives you options without needing to name just one. Eating out and day-to-day errands are served by a working high street rather than a destination one, and with over a hundred bus and transport stops around the town, getting about without a car is realistic. Where the picture turns more serious is crime: violence and sexual offences make up 43% of all recorded crime, a concentration that pushes the overall safety grade down even though the underlying trend has been flat rather than worsening. It's the one figure in an otherwise solidly middle-of-the-road set of grades that asks you to pay attention rather than skim past.