Aston
Village · 1,040 residents
74Very good
Very good · better than 9 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: 43 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 41% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Health scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Aston a good place to live?
Aston scores 74/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (87).
It scores lowest on health (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Aston in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Aston
Aston is the kind of place you drive through slowly without quite meaning to — detached stone and brick houses set well back from the road, no shopfronts to speak of, and a stillness that has nothing to do with the time of day. This is a village in the fullest sense: a population you could fit in a large primary school, spread thin across the land, with a density nowhere near what you'd find even a few miles into the rest of Oxfordshire.
Housing here means one thing in practice: a detached freehold, full stop. Nine out of nine recent sales were freehold, and eight of those were detached houses — there's no flat market, no leasehold chain, no new-build estate to dilute the picture. The median sale price of £475,000 sits meaningfully above the national figure, and even against West Oxfordshire itself, prices here run about 23% higher, which tells you this is one of the district's pricier corners rather than a bargain village on its fringe. For schooling, Aston and Cote Church of England Primary serves the immediate area, and Cokethorpe School — an independent — sits close enough to be part of local life, though Ofsted ratings aren't published for either, so you're relying on reputation and open days rather than a headline grade.
There isn't much in the way of a high street rhythm to describe, and that's rather the point. With only a couple of green spaces recorded and under two hectares between them, this isn't a village built around a park; it's built around private gardens and the wider countryside past the last house. What stands out instead is how safe it feels to be here: the safety grade is the highest available, and overall the village scores among the best-performing areas nationally on the composite measure — genuinely rare air. The one crime category with any weight, violence and sexual offences, still only represents a small handful of recorded incidents over the year, and the trend is flat, not worsening. Broadband is solid too, with full-fibre reaching the large majority of properties, so remote work is a realistic option even without much footfall on the doorstep.