Bilton
Suburb · 109 residents
55Good
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
- Affordability scores 78, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 18 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 29, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
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Is Bilton a good place to live?
Bilton scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (78) and safety (77).
It scores lowest on health (21) and food & drink (29).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Bilton in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bilton
Bilton reads as detached houses on generous plots, driveways with two cars, hedges trimmed rather than fenced — the kind of street where every sale board says freehold and nobody's in a hurry to move. It's a small, settled pocket, and it feels it: quiet during the day, cars back on drives by early evening, a median age north of fifty that tells you this isn't a place cycling through young renters every couple of years.
The numbers back up what you'd guess from the streetscape. Nine of the last twenty sales here were detached, freehold ownership runs through the entire sample, and the median price of £306,500 sits comfortably above the national figure — this is a place with money in it, sitting in the top income and deprivation deciles going, which puts it among the least deprived pockets in the country. Against North Yorkshire as a whole, homes here cost roughly 17% more, which tells you Bilton is the pricier end of an already comfortable county, not a bargain corner of it.
Crime is where you need to read carefully rather than react. The headline comparison — a crime rate over five times North Yorkshire's average — looks alarming until you notice the base: this is a small population, and two dozen-odd incidents over a year, mostly violence and anti-social behaviour categories, move the rate a long way on a small denominator. The area's own safety grade sits at the top of the scale, which is the more reliable signal here than a percentage built on small numbers. Broadband is solid, with most premises on full fibre, and the general grade pattern — strong on affordability-for-what-you-get, health, housing, transport — reads as consistently comfortable rather than showing any one glaring weak spot.