Clifton upon Dunsmore
Village · 1,036 residents
70Very good
Very good · better than 8 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: 30 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 74% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 17% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Road noise reaches 45% of the area
- Health scores 32, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Clifton upon Dunsmore
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Clifton upon Dunsmore a good place to live?
Clifton upon Dunsmore scores 70/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (82) and environment (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (32) and health (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Clifton upon Dunsmore in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Clifton upon Dunsmore
Clifton upon Dunsmore reads as a village of detached and semi-detached homes on quiet lanes, the kind of place where the population barely fills a large housing estate elsewhere and everyone's roughly the same vintage of settled. With a median age over 50, this isn't a village full of young families finding their feet — it's one where people have arrived, or stayed, rather than passed through.
There's one school here, Clifton-upon-Dunsmore CofE Primary, a voluntary controlled school with 224 pupils — a proper village anchor rather than a choice among many, and worth knowing if you have young children, since secondary options will mean looking beyond the village itself. Housing is dominated by semi-detached and detached freehold homes, with a median price around £357,500 — comfortably above both the national median and, more tellingly, about 31% above the wider Rugby borough figure. That premium tells you this is one of the better-off pockets of the district, not a bargain corner of it. Twelve transport stops serve the village, though there's no rail station listed here, so a car (or a drive to a station elsewhere) is part of daily life rather than an optional extra.
Green space is generously proportioned for the population — eight separate patches across a small village — and the overall character grades bear that out: this is an area marked as well above the national average for environment and safety alike, with only the nightlife grade sitting noticeably lower, which is exactly what you'd expect of a village rather than a market town. Crime is genuinely low in absolute terms, just six incidents across the year, split fairly evenly between criminal damage, anti-social behaviour, and a handful of other categories — numbers small enough that any single event moves the percentages more than it moves the reality on the ground. Broadband is a quiet strength too, with full-fibre coverage over 90%, unusual for somewhere this rural and useful if working from home is part of the plan.