Broughton Gifford
Village · 461 residents
62Good
Good · better than 4 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: 20 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 73, well above the typical 60
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- Flood risk: 11% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Food & drink scores 29, below the typical 60
- Infrastructure scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Broughton Gifford
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Broughton Gifford a good place to live?
Broughton Gifford scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85) and transport (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (29) and infrastructure (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Broughton Gifford in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Broughton Gifford
Broughton Gifford is the kind of place where the housing stock tells you most of what you need to know before you've even parked: stone and brick detached houses set back behind hedges, a scatter of semis and terraces filling the gaps, and almost nothing built in the last few years. It's a village in the proper sense — a few hundred people, one school, one obvious centre of gravity — and the streets have the settled, unhurried look of somewhere people move to rather than pass through.
That settledness shows up in the numbers too. The median age here is 50, a decade older than the national average, and the housing market backs up the picture: seven sales in the sample, four of them detached, every single one freehold, with a median price of £522,000 — comfortably above both the Wiltshire and national norms. This isn't a first-time-buyer village. It's a place you arrive at with equity already banked, often after the kids have left home or are close to it. St Mary's Broughton Gifford, the village's own Church of England primary, rated Good, is the kind of school that anchors a young family's decision to stay rather than the reason they came in the first place — with only 69 pupils, it has the feel of a proper village school rather than a feeder for ambitious commuters.
Which points to the one real trade-off: this is not a commuter's village in the way some Wiltshire places are. There's no rail station in the picture here, and the transport grade — a strong A — rests more on road access and local bus stops than on trains to London or Bristol. If you need a station platform in your daily life, you're driving to one. Green space is present but modest, just under three-quarters of a hectare split across three small sites, so this isn't a village built around sprawling parkland; it's about the surrounding countryside doing that job instead, with the fields and lanes beyond the gardens rather than a marquee park inside them. Nightlife and connectivity grades sit in the C range, the honest signal that evenings out and fast broadband both mean travelling to somewhere with more critical mass — Bath or Chippenham, most likely, though that's your call to make, not the data's.