Christian Malford
Village · 417 residents
70Very good
Very good · better than 8 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 17 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Environment scores 72, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 32, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Christian Malford
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Christian Malford a good place to live?
Christian Malford scores 70/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85) and environment (72).
It scores lowest on food & drink (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Christian Malford in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Christian Malford
Detached houses behind hedgerows, a scattering of stone and render, and barely a soul on the lane when you drive through — this is a village in the proper sense, small enough that the whole population would fit in a single large school. Wiltshire countryside surrounds it on all sides, and there's no high street to speak of, just the sense of a place people chose for the quiet rather than the convenience.
That quiet is the whole story here. With a population in the twenties and density nowhere near the regional norm, Christian Malford reads as an outlier even by rural Wiltshire standards, and the numbers bear that out oddly: crime counted over the year sits at a small handful of incidents, mostly violence and sexual offences, which sounds alarming as a share of the total until you remember how few people and few incidents that actually represents — a couple of events can swing the percentages wildly in a place this size. The area still comes out graded strongly on safety overall, so treat the crime breakdown as a curiosity of small numbers rather than a warning sign.
On schooling, the village runs on its own primary, Christian Malford CofE Primary, a small academy of around fifty pupils — currently rated as requiring improvement, which is the one grade here that runs against the otherwise strong pattern and worth asking current parents about before assuming anything. There's no secondary in the village itself. Housing leans heavily towards detached, freehold homes — every sale in the local sample was freehold, and detached dominates — which fits a place bought by people wanting space and settling in for the long term rather than flipping on to the next rung. Prices reflect that: a median around £405,000 sits comfortably above both the national and Wiltshire figures, roughly 29% above the county average, so this is not a bargain corner of the South West, it's a premium one. Median age above fifty and higher income decile than most of the country point the same way — established households, not first-time buyers or young renters.