Ashton Keynes
Village · 1,119 residents
62Good
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
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 30% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 27, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Ashton Keynes
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Ashton Keynes a good place to live?
Ashton Keynes scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (87).
It scores lowest on food & drink (27).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ashton Keynes in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ashton Keynes
Stone cottages, wide grass verges, and a scatter of detached houses set well back from the road — that's the visual grammar of Ashton Keynes, and it's a village built around the Thames Path and its network of lakes rather than any high street to speak of. You won't find much passing trade here; what you will find is space, and the kind of quiet that comes from a population you could fit into a large school assembly.
That quiet is the whole story. Ashton Keynes Church of England Primary School, rated Good, anchors family life for the handful of households with children, though at 214 pupils it's clearly drawing from beyond the village itself — with a median age pushing 51, this is not primarily a village of young families. There's no rail station in the picture, so anyone commuting will be doing it by car, and the roads and dozen-odd bus stops are what keep the place connected rather than any train line. Housing here is heavily weighted towards detached freehold homes — nine out of nine recent sales were freehold, seven of them detached — and at a median approaching £505,000, against a national median around £281,000 and a Wiltshire figure of £315,000, this is a place where a For Sale board signals a family-sized house bought outright, not a first rung on a ladder.
The Thames Path and the village's cluster of small lakes are the outdoor draw, with a modest spread of green space for a settlement this size — enough for a walk before lunch, not for a day out. There's no real restaurant scene to mention, and nightlife grades only middling, which fits a place where evenings are spent at home rather than out. On safety, the picture is genuinely strong: the overall grade sits well above the national average, and Wiltshire's own crime rate is dramatically higher than the village's own tally of a handful of recorded incidents over the year — that comparison is the one number worth carrying with you, because it tells you the low crime count isn't a fluke of small population, it's a real gap. Connectivity is the flatter note: full-fibre coverage sits around two-thirds, respectable but not universal, which matters if you're planning to work from home full-time.