Blaisdon
Village · 244 residents
72Very good
Very good · better than 8 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: 8 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 85, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 75, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Blaisdon
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Blaisdon a good place to live?
Blaisdon scores 72/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (98) and transport (85).
It scores lowest on health (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Blaisdon in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Blaisdon
Blaisdon is the kind of place where the houses do the talking: detached stone and render sitting on generous plots, freehold nearly universal, nothing new-build about it. Twenty sales in the sample and eleven of them detached — this is a village of family homes bought outright, not a rental market or a developer's estate. The median age of 52.6, well above the national 40.4, tells you who's actually behind those doors: people well past the first-time-buyer scramble, settled rather than searching.
That property picture and the price tag go together. A median of £367,500 sits comfortably above the Forest of Dean district figure, and the data confirms it directly — Blaisdon runs about 35% above its parent area on price. Against a national backdrop this is still not London money, but locally it marks Blaisdon out as one of the pricier corners of the district. The affordability grade of A seems to sit oddly alongside that until you remember it's measuring against national norms adjusted for what residents here typically earn — this is a top income-decile village (9 out of 10), so the price tag bites less than the raw number suggests. Schooling is thin on the ground in the data — Hope Brook CofE Primary is the one named option, an academy converter with 122 pupils, though no inspection grade is recorded here, so it's a name to check for yourself rather than take on trust.
Green space is modest and specific: two named spaces totalling half a hectare, nothing sprawling, more pocket-park than country estate — which fits a village where the real outdoor life is presumably the surrounding Forest of Dean countryside rather than anything landscaped within the settlement itself. There's no restaurant or named food venue in the picture here, and transport is likewise light-touch: eleven stops locally, no rail station named, so this reads as a driving village rather than a commuting one. That's consistent with the age profile — this isn't a place people are moving to for a fast train into a city, it's a place people move to once the commute stops mattering.