Chipping Campden
Town · 2,069 residents
98Excellent
Excellent · among the highest-scoring 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 24 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- 15 places to eat and drink
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Chipping Campden
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Chipping Campden a good place to live?
Chipping Campden scores 98/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as excellent — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (97) and health (89).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Chipping Campden in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Chipping Campden
Honey-coloured stone terraces, a high street built for wool merchants rather than motorists, and a population you can count in the hundreds rather than thousands — this is a place where the architecture does most of the talking before you've even parked the car. The people you see on a walk through the centre skew well past working age, and the shopfronts and pace of the place reflect that: unhurried, well-kept, not much passing trade beyond those who've come specifically to look.
There's no rail station in the village itself, so this isn't a commuter base in the conventional sense — anyone working from here is either driving out, working from home, or retired, and the median age of 56.6 (well above the national 40.4) tells you which of those is most common. Schooling is a mixed picture worth sitting with: Chipping Campden School serves secondary-age pupils with a Progress 8 score of 0.16, which is respectable, and St Catharine's Catholic Primary holds a Good rating, but the area's overall school grade sits higher than the individual ratings might suggest on their own — worth a visit rather than a spreadsheet read. Housing is dominated by detached freehold homes, and it shows in the numbers: an established median of £580,000 against a national detached median of £420,000, in a market that's 92nd percentile for price nationally. A For Sale board here is almost always advertising a freehold house, not a flat share or a leasehold flat — new build is essentially absent, at zero percent.