Bleadon
Village · 974 residents
58Good
Good · better than 3 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: 50 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 70, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 37% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 23, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Bleadon a good place to live?
Bleadon scores 58/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (72) and transport (70).
It scores lowest on health (23) and food & drink (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Bleadon in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bleadon
Detached houses behind low stone walls, cars rather than buses at the kerb, and the kind of quiet that comes from a village of just over a hundred people rather than a suburb pretending to be one. Bleadon reads as settled: the median age here is 57, a good seventeen years above the national figure, and that shows in the streetscape as much as in any statistic — this is a place people move to once, then stay.
There's no rail station or school in the picture here, so the practical story is really about roads and roofs. Fifteen bus stops serve a population this size comfortably, and the transport grade comes out well above the national average, which suggests getting around locally is easier than the village's size might imply — useful if you're not planning to commute by train. On housing, the picture is classic Somerset village: detached homes dominate the recent sales, freehold tenure covers eleven of the last twelve transactions, and there's no new-build estate diluting the character. A median sale price of £355,000 sits close to the regional median but noticeably above North Somerset's borough-wide figure, about 13% higher — you're paying a premium for the village setting rather than for square footage alone.
Green space is modest in scale — three plots totalling just over a hectare — so this isn't a place with a sprawling park at its centre; it's more back-garden and countryside-edge living than public lawns. With only a handful of properties changing hands each year and a turnover rate close to the national norm, the market here moves slowly rather than churns. The one figure that jars against the otherwise reassuring picture is crime: the safety grade sits at B+ and the year-on-year trend is flat, but the crime rate compared with North Somerset as a whole is almost five times higher — worth sitting with, even though the raw count driving that number is small enough (five incidents logged, nineteen in the fuller breakdown across categories like violence and anti-social behaviour) that a single unusual month can swing the percentage hard. It's the kind of statistic that looks alarming in isolation and much less so once you know the base is tiny.