Clun
Village · 518 residents
57Good
Good · better than 2 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: 29 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- Affordability scores 70, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Clun a good place to live?
Clun scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85) and health (75).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Clun in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Clun
Clun sits low in a valley of stone and timber-framed buildings, the kind of place where the castle ruins outdraw the shops and the high street runs out after a few hundred yards. It's a village that attracts people well past the school run years — the median age here is 60, a good two decades above the national figure — and everything about the pace of it, from the empty pavements to the quiet parish noticeboards, reflects that.
There's no station in the village itself; Knighton Rail Station is the nearest, which tells you this is a driving life, not a commuting one — if you're still working, it's likely from home or on your own terms rather than off a platform each morning. Schooling is thin but present: St George's CofE Academy serves the primary-age children who are here, a small school of just over a hundred pupils, alongside the tiny Newcastle CofE Primary down the road. There's no secondary provision in the village, which matters if you've got older children still at home, though given the age profile, most households have long since finished with all that. Housing leans heavily toward detached freehold property — every sale in the local sample was freehold, and six in ten were detached houses — which is the classic shape of a village where people buy once and stay. At a median of £387,500, prices run noticeably above both the Shropshire and national medians, roughly 44% above the county figure, putting Clun among the pricier corners of a county that isn't cheap to begin with.