Ashmore Green
Village · 314 residents
52Fair
Fair · better than 1 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: 25 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Health scores 22, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 25, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Ashmore Green
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Ashmore Green a good place to live?
Ashmore Green scores 52/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (81).
It scores lowest on health (22) and food & drink (25).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ashmore Green in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ashmore Green
Detached houses set well back from the road, gravel drives, hedgerows rather than fences — Ashmore Green reads as a village built for people who've already done well and want quiet rather than convenience. There's no high street to speak of here, and that's rather the point.
The numbers back up the impression. This is decile 9 for deprivation and decile 10 for income — about as comfortable as England gets — and the property market confirms it: six recent sales, split between detached and semi-detached, every single one freehold, with a median price of £765,000 against a national figure of £281,000. That's not a typo you need to double-check twice; West Berkshire itself sits at £385,000, so Ashmore Green is pricier even than its own wealthy parent authority. A board outside one of these houses is telling you this is a place to arrive at once you're established, not a first rung. Schooling is a mixed picture to describe precisely, since the sample here is thin, but Downe House is a name that carries weight regionally as a well-regarded independent school, and Curridge Primary offers a small community-school alternative for younger children. Commuting is the honest trade-off: there are two transport stops logged for the village and nothing resembling a rail station in the picture, so this reads as car-dependent rather than train-friendly — fine if you work from home or don't mind a drive to catch a train elsewhere, less fine if you were hoping to walk to a platform.