Crowmarsh Gifford
Village · 993 residents
84Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- Food & drink scores 90, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 67 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 69% of residents live within five minutes of a park
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 20% 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
Around Crowmarsh Gifford
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Crowmarsh Gifford a good place to live?
Crowmarsh Gifford scores 84/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (90) and safety (82).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Crowmarsh Gifford in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Crowmarsh Gifford
Crowmarsh Gifford is the kind of place where the houses do the talking: detached brick and flint sitting behind hedges, the odd converted barn, nothing that looks like it was built after 1990. There's no high street to speak of, just the Thames-side road out towards Wallingford and a scatter of period homes that make clear this is a village for people who've already made their money rather than people chasing a starter home.
The numbers back that reading up. A median sale price of £475,000 against a national median of £281,000 puts this comfortably above the country as a whole, though it actually undercuts its own district — 11.8% higher than the South Oxfordshire parent average doesn't sound like undercutting, but set against the region's £577,000 typical detached price, Crowmarsh Gifford is one of the more accessible corners of a very expensive district. Almost everything sold here is freehold, dominated by detached houses, which is the property-board shorthand for a village where people buy once and stay: the median age of 47.7 against a national 40.4 confirms it. There's a single school in the immediate data, Crowmarsh Gifford Church of England School, rated Good and taking on 226 pupils — solid rather than exceptional, and if you want an Outstanding primary or secondary you'll be looking beyond the village boundary. Commuting is not the headline here; this reads as a place people retire to or settle in once they're established, not a first rung for London-bound thirty-somethings.