Cowplain
Suburb · 1,176 residents
58Good
Good · better than 4 in 10 suburbs
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: 57 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 2 GP practices within a short walk
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- Road noise reaches 61% of the area
- Food & drink scores 16, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Cowplain a good place to live?
Cowplain scores 58/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (73) and health (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (16).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Cowplain in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Cowplain
Cowplain's streets are the kind you'd draw if asked to picture "ordinary England": detached and semi-detached houses, hedges trimmed, cars on the drive rather than the kerb, and not much reason to linger unless you live there. It reads as settled rather than transient — a median age around 45 tells you this isn't a place full of shared houses and first flats, and the streetscape backs that up.
The property picture and the safety picture tell the same story from different angles. Sales here skew heavily towards detached and semi-detached freehold homes — of the sample sold, the overwhelming majority were owned outright rather than leasehold, which is the classic signature of a family-house suburb rather than a rental turnover zone. At a median price a touch above neighbouring Havant, and comfortably ahead of the national median, Cowplain sits among the less deprived areas nationally, and that affluence shows up again in the crime figures: an A grade for safety, with the total case count low enough that even the dominant category — violence and sexual offences — is worth reading as unremarkable across a full year rather than alarming, and the trend is flat, not worsening. The one grade that breaks the pattern is nightlife, sitting low against everything else — this is not a place that expects you to go out after dark and find much open.
Schools are the softer spot in an otherwise strong profile. Padnell Infant and Padnell Junior serve the immediate area as community schools, but the overall schools grade lands at C+, middling rather than a selling point, so it's worth checking current inspection outcomes directly rather than assuming Ofsted history for these two. Green space comes in a single large block — 45 hectares of it — which for a population just over a thousand is a generous ratio, enough for the kind of dog walk or Sunday football that doesn't need planning. Full-fibre broadband reaches a solid majority of homes, useful if working from one of those detached houses is part of the appeal. Health grades sit at C+, a notch below the rest of the profile, so don't assume GP access matches the strength of the safety and environment scores.