Appleton
Village · 718 residents
68Good
Good · better than 7 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 15 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 71, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 37, below the typical 60
- Health scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Appleton a good place to live?
Appleton scores 68/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (90) and transport (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (37) and health (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Appleton in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Appleton
Stone-and-thatch cottages, long gravel drives, cars that skew Volvo estate rather than anything flashy — Appleton reads as the kind of village people move to once they've decided commuting further is a price worth paying for a garden and some quiet. There's no high street to speak of, just under two hundred people spread thinly across it, and the sense of a place built around houses rather than shops.
The numbers back up that first impression of comfortable, settled money. A median house price of £640,000 against a national figure of £281,000 puts Appleton firmly in the well-off bracket, and even against its own district — Vale of White Horse, no slouch itself — homes here run 68% higher. The property market is almost entirely detached houses bought freehold outright, no new-builds in the mix, which tells you this is a place people buy into for decades rather than flip. Appleton Church of England Primary, rated Good, is the anchor for family life; with a median age pushing 49, though, this reads more as a village for households well past the school run than one full of young families.
Green space is modest in scale — five pockets totalling under two hectares — but that's typical of a village this size rather than a shortfall, and the rhythm of life here leans on the surrounding countryside as much as anything formally mapped. There isn't a restaurant scene to speak of, and healthcare and shopping trips mean heading elsewhere; this is a place you drive out from, not one that keeps you in. Full-fibre broadband reaches about two-thirds of homes, which matters if working from home is part of the plan.