Bracknell
Town · 79,114 residents
65Good
Good · better than 5 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 86% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- 97% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
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- Food & drink scores 26, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Bracknell
Great Hollands68PriestwoodCrown Wood72Easthampstead Park71FarleywoodForest Park59EasthampsteadMartin's Heron63Old BracknellRoundshillSkimpedhillPopeswood75
See all 24 in the guide ↓Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Bracknell a good place to live?
Bracknell scores 65/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (78) and infrastructure (72).
It scores lowest on food & drink (26).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Bracknell in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bracknell
Bracknell reads as a town built for living rather than looking at: roundabouts, retail parks, low-rise housing estates fanning out from a redeveloped centre, and a population that skews towards families and commuters rather than students or retirees. It's the kind of place that doesn't perform for visitors, and doesn't much need to.
The practical picture is where Bracknell makes its case. Two stations, Bracknell and Martins Heron, put you on the line into London without requiring you to live in London prices, and with a median age of 38 the town is visibly full of people doing exactly that commute-and-raise-kids calculation. Schools are a mixed but solid set — Wildridings Primary, Fox Hill Primary and St Joseph's Catholic Primary all carry Good ratings, and King's Academy Oakwood is the nearest Outstanding primary if you want to aim a house search around it. At secondary level the picture is more uneven: Ranelagh School posts a strongly positive progress score while Brakenhale and Garth Hill both sit in negative territory, so which catchment you land in matters more here than the town-wide average suggests. Housing itself is dominated by freehold terraces and semis rather than flats or new-build blocks, and at a median of £375,000 — sitting below both the regional average and Wokingham's £460,750 by some margin — Bracknell functions as the more affordable option inside a genuinely expensive authority. The five-year trajectory on prices is described as improving, even if any single year's movement looks modest.