Compton Bishop
Village · 575 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
- Affordability scores 72, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 30 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 70, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 15% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Environment scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Compton Bishop
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Compton Bishop a good place to live?
Compton Bishop scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (72) and safety (71).
It scores lowest on environment (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Compton Bishop in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Compton Bishop
Compton Bishop is the kind of place where the houses do the talking: mostly detached, mostly freehold, set well apart from one another under the shadow of the Mendips, with barely more than six hundred people spread thinly across it. There's no high street to speak of, no cluster of shops pulling in passing trade — this is a village built around private space rather than public life, and it shows in the emptiness of the lanes as much as in the size of the plots.
The housing market tells you who this suits before you've even asked. A median sale price of £455,000, against a national figure well under £300,000, puts Compton Bishop firmly among the pricier corners of the country, and detached homes here are selling for well over the national median for the same type — this is a village of established buyers rather than first rungs on the ladder. Somerset as a whole is cheaper, so you're paying a real premium to be in this particular pocket of it. There's a single primary nearby worth knowing — Weare Academy First School, rated Good — but with a median age pushing 53, you're more likely to find retirees and settled second-move families here than school-run traffic. Eleven bus stops serve the village, which tells its own quiet story: this is a place you drive from, not one you commute out of on rails.
Green space is scarce by the numbers — just a third of a hectare logged formally — but that undersells a village ringed by open Mendip countryside; the real outdoor life here happens beyond any mapped boundary, on the hill paths rather than in a municipal park. There's no restaurant scene to route a weekend around, and you'd be looking beyond the village for that pint or Sunday lunch. What you're buying into instead is quiet: crime sits meaningfully below the Somerset average, and although violence and sexual offences top the local breakdown, the raw numbers are small enough that a handful of incidents shift the percentages considerably — this isn't a place with a live safety problem so much as a very low base rate doing normal statistical things.