Blisworth in East Midlands has a Check Local Score of 70/100 (very good), drawn from official data on safety, schools, transport, housing, amenities and the local environment, each measured against the national average — a score of 60 is typical for the country.
Detached and semi-detached houses dominate the streets here, the kind with gravel drives and hedges rather than shared walls, and at 52 the median age tells you most of the people behind those doors aren't rushing anywhere in the morning. This is a small village — barely 150 people in the dataset that defines it — sitting in West Northamptonshire with the settled, unhurried feel of a place people move to rather than pass through.
The transport grade is the standout here, an A that's rare for somewhere this size, and it points to a village built around a station rather than a bypass — the kind of place where you could commute into a city for work and still be home in time to close the gate behind you. Schooling is thinner: there's one primary, Blisworth Community Primary, serving 159 pupils, and while no Ofsted rating is on record for it, the absence of choice is itself the fact to weigh if you've got children of secondary age, since you'll be looking outside the village for that stage. Housing here means detached and freehold almost as a rule — sixteen of seventeen recent sales were freehold, eight of those detached — and at a median of £325,000 you're paying close to national detached prices but sitting comfortably above the regional median, a mark of a village that's held its value against its surroundings.
Green space is modest rather than expansive — six pockets covering a couple of hectares — so this isn't a place defined by parkland, more one where gardens do the work instead. Day to day life will mean driving to neighbouring towns for the bulk of your shopping and eating out, since the village itself isn't built around a restaurant strip. Safety is where the picture gets interesting: the overall grade sits comfortably in B+ territory alongside affordability, connectivity, and housing, but the raw crime rate compared with the wider unitary authority runs sharply higher, driven mostly by violence and anti-social behaviour categories that together make up two-thirds of recorded incidents. With only seven crimes logged in the last year, that's a small-numbers effect as much as anything — a single cluster of incidents can swing the percentage wildly in a village this size — and the trend itself is reading flat, not worsening.
This suits someone who has already decided they want quiet over convenience, who values a fast rail link more than a full high street, and who's bought their last family home rather than their first. It's a harder sell if you need schooling options on your doorstep or want evening life beyond your own front room — but if what you're after is space, a decent train service, and a place that has settled into what it is, Blisworth won't ask you to compromise much to get it.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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