Anna Valley
Village · 1,904 residents
60Good
Good · better than 4 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 31 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 70, 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 8, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 22, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Anna Valley
Map outline: Part of an official built-up area
Is Anna Valley a good place to live?
Anna Valley scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (89) and transport (70).
It scores lowest on health (8) and food & drink (22).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Anna Valley in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Anna Valley
Anna Valley reads like the kind of place you'd drive through and only notice because you slowed for the bend: a scatter of detached and terraced homes, a handful of green spaces barely bigger than paddocks, and none of the retail clutter that signals a place built for passing trade. This is a village in the fullest sense — small, settled, and quietly comfortable with itself.
The numbers back up that impression of comfort. Anna Valley sits in the ninth income and deprivation decile, which puts it among the better-off parts of the country, and the median age of nearly 46 tells you this isn't a place cycling through young renters — people tend to arrive and stay. Housing here leans towards freehold houses, terraced and detached in even measure, and at a median of £365,000 it runs a little above the wider Test Valley district and comfortably above the national figure, though detached homes in particular fetch well over the national going rate. A for-sale board here is usually advertising a family house bought outright, not a flat chain-let to a landlord. Schooling is local and church-rooted — Abbotts Ann and Clatford Church of England primaries serve the immediate area, alongside the independent Farleigh School — while the working-age crowd who do commute have 29 local transport stops to draw on, though this is a village for people who've already arranged their life around a car or a short drive to a mainline station rather than one built around the railway itself.