Baughurst Common
Suburb · 28 residents
56Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Environment scores 75, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 71 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 21, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 35, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Baughurst Common
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Baughurst Common a good place to live?
Baughurst Common scores 56/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (75) and safety (72).
It scores lowest on health (21) and food & drink (35).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Baughurst Common in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Baughurst Common
Baughurst Common reads as a small, settled pocket of semi-detached houses rather than a place with a high street of its own — the kind of spot where the front gardens are tidy, the cars are recent, and you sense most people have been here a while rather than passing through.
The numbers back that impression up. This sits in the ninth income and deprivation decile, among the better-off, less deprived corners of the country, and the median age of 46 tells you it's not a place thick with young renters — more established households who've stopped moving. A For Sale board here almost always means semi-detached and freehold: nine of the last dozen sales were semis, eleven of twelve outright freehold, and the median price of £400,000 sits comfortably above the £368,500 typical of Basingstoke and Deane, the wider district it belongs to. That premium buys you space rather than a postcode with cachet — this is quietly pricier than its own district, not dramatically so.
Where the picture gets more interesting is safety and schooling. The overall grade lands as a solid B, safety alone grades as A, and with only fifteen recorded crimes in the past year — shoplifting the largest single category, which points to retail units on the fringes rather than anything aimed at residents — this is a genuinely quiet address. Health services grade more modestly at C+, worth knowing if GP access matters to you. On schooling, The Hurst School serves as the local secondary; it's a large community school with over a thousand pupils, though its progress scores run below the national average, so it's worth a proper look rather than an assumption. Green space is thin on paper — one plot of just over a hectare — which fits a place built for gardens rather than parkland rambles, and there isn't much of a restaurant or nightlife scene to speak of, reflected in that unremarkable C+ nightlife grade.