Blackmore End
Village · 565 residents
61Good
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: 28 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Blackmore End
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Blackmore End a good place to live?
Blackmore End scores 61/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (82).
It scores lowest on health (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Blackmore End in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Blackmore End
Detached houses behind long gravel drives, hedgerows rather than pavements, and barely a shop sign in sight — this is Blackmore End in one glance, a scatter of homes rather than a settlement with a centre. With a population under a hundred and a density nowhere near the regional norm, it reads less like a village with amenities and more like a rural address that happens to share a name on the map.
Money sits at the heart of what this place is. Landing in the top income and deprivation deciles nationally, and with a median property price approaching a million pounds against a St Albans parent figure of £590,000, Blackmore End is pricier even than its already well-off district — put simply, this is one of the better-off corners of the East of England by a wide margin. The property mix backs this up: sales here skew heavily detached and freehold, with almost nothing leasehold and no new-build churn, which tells you what a For Sale board on this lane actually means — an established, individually owned house, not a fresh estate. Commuting and schooling read as afterthoughts to that wealth rather than drivers of it: there's no rail station logged here, only a handful of local stops, and the one sampled school, Kimpton Primary, carries a solid Good rating rather than anything more exceptional — an interesting wrinkle given the area's own schools grade comes out as the standout, top-tier mark in the whole profile. The median age of nearly 50 fits a place of settled owners rather than young commuting families chasing a train line.