Brimpton
Village · 310 residents
63Good
Good · better than 5 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: 58 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 15% 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
- Food & drink scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Brimpton a good place to live?
Brimpton scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (78).
It scores lowest on food & drink (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Brimpton in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Brimpton
Brimpton is the kind of place where the housing does the talking: detached homes on generous plots, freehold almost without exception, and barely a For Sale board in sight because so little turns over. You won't find a parade of shops or a bus every ten minutes here — this is a small, quiet cluster of a village, the sort of spot that attracts people who've already decided they don't need much passing traffic in their lives. With a median age pushing 50, it reads as settled rather than transient — people move in and stay.
The practical picture is straightforward if you know what you're buying into. There's one school in the village itself, Brimpton C.E. Primary, rated Good and small enough that you'd know the other parents by name within a term; Woolhampton C.E. Primary sits close by too, and Elstree School offers an independent option if that's part of your plan. Transport is thin — a couple of stops rather than a station of its own — so this suits someone who drives, or who's arranged their commute around a car rather than a platform. Housing here is overwhelmingly detached and freehold, and the numbers back up the impression of exclusivity: a median sale price of £752,500 sits close to the national 95th percentile, and even against West Berkshire — not a cheap authority itself — Brimpton runs only a touch below at 95.5% of the parent area's typical price. This is not a stretch-to-afford village; it's one where the stretch has already happened, some years back, for most of the people living here.