Chelworth Lower Green in South West has a Check Local Score of 69/100 (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.
Chelworth Lower Green is the sort of place where the detached houses sit well back from the road and there's no high street to speak of — this is a hamlet-scale village, barely a hundred people, where the streetscape is mostly hedgerow, driveway, and the odd tractor passing through. It attracts an older, settled crowd: the median age here is around 50, a decade above the national figure, and that shows in the quiet rather than in anything you could point a camera at.
There's no rail station or named school in the picture here, and with only a couple of bus stops recorded, this isn't a village built around commuting — if you work away from home, you're doing it by car. What the numbers do say clearly is that this is comfortable, settled England: both income and deprivation deciles sit at 9, among the better-off slice of the country, and the housing stock backs that up. Sales here skew heavily detached and entirely freehold, with a median price around £430,000 — well above the Wiltshire average and higher still against the national median. A For Sale board on this lane is advertising a family-sized freehold house, not a starter flat or a rental churn; turnover is a touch higher than the national norm, but this still isn't a village where places change hands often.
Green space isn't itemised by name here, but the area's density — objectively rural against the national average — tells its own story, and the crime figures reinforce the sense of a place that keeps to itself: five incidents in the past year is a small number even before you weigh it, and the safety grade sits at the top of the scale with the trend reading flat, meaning nothing is shifting either way. The one crime figure that looks alarming in isolation — violence and sexual offences making up 45% of the local breakdown, with the rate itself far above the Wiltshire average — needs reading against that headline count of five; a handful of incidents split across categories can swing a percentage wildly in a population this size, and the underlying pattern is stability, not trouble. Restaurants, pubs, and health services aren't part of this dataset, which itself says something: day-to-day life is likely to mean driving to a neighbouring town for most errands.
This suits someone who wants space, quiet, and a freehold house with room to spare, and who has already made peace with a car-dependent routine — it's a harder sell if you need a station platform or a school gate within an easy pram-push, since neither shows up here at all.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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