Cross
Village · 260 residents
56Good
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
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
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Cross a good place to live?
Cross scores 56/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (72).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Cross in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Cross
Cross is the kind of place where detached houses on generous plots sit back from the road and you notice, mostly, how few people are about. Nine of the last twelve recorded sales here were detached homes, nearly all freehold, and that tells you most of what you need to know about the street scene before you've even parked the car: this is settled, owner-occupied, family-plot England, not a place built around flats or rental turnover.
The commute picture is thin on paper — there's no named station or rail count in the local data — so this reads as a driving village rather than a platform-and-9am-train one, with six local transport stops standing in for a station. Schools-wise, Weare Academy First School carries a Good rating and a modest roll of around 150 pupils, the sort of place where a straightforward offer, decent SATs and nowhere a loop. With a median age pushing 53 against a national figure in the low 40s, this is not primarily a place thick with young families; it reads more as a settled, older community, and the school exists to serve a trickle rather than a wave.
On money and safety, the grades sit in a tight, reassuring band — affordability comes out as the standout strength, with housing and connectivity trailing slightly behind but still respectable. The one place that needs unpacking is crime: the headline number looks startling against Somerset as a whole, but with a population in the dozens rather than thousands, a single-figure shift in incidents swings the rate enormously. Violence and sexual offences and theft make up the bulk of the handful of recorded crimes, and the safety trend is reported flat rather than worsening — so the quiet, A-grade feel of the place is the more reliable signal than the raw percentage. Property values back this up: a typical detached home here runs notably above the national detached median, and the overall median sale price sits comfortably above both the regional and national averages, consistent with Somerset's more expensive pockets rather than its ordinary ones.