Ditton Hill
Suburb · 156 residents
55Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 26 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 36, where 60 is typical
- Road noise reaches 42% of the area
- Health scores 20, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Ditton Hill
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Is Ditton Hill a good place to live?
Ditton Hill scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (82).
It scores lowest on health (20) and food & drink (29).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ditton Hill in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ditton Hill
Ditton Hill reads as detached houses behind hedges, driveways with two cars, and very little passing trade. There's no high street pulling in outsiders here — this is a residential pocket where the streets are for the people who live on them, and it shows in the quiet.
The numbers back up what you'd sense walking round: this sits in the tenth decile for deprivation, meaning it's among the least deprived places in the country, and the income profile matches that. A median house price pushing toward the £900,000s puts it above even Elmbridge's already-high benchmark, and Elmbridge itself is one of the pricier districts in the South East — so this is a corner of a wealthy area that outprices its own neighbourhood by over 50%. Freehold detached houses dominate the sales here, which tells you what a board outside a property actually means: not a flat conversion or a leasehold flip, but a family house meant to be kept.
Families and older professionals seem to be the backbone of the place — the median age of 43 is well above the national average, and the schooling on offer supports a settled, long-stay population rather than a transient one. Hinchley Wood School and Long Ditton St Mary's CofE Junior School both carry Outstanding ratings, and Hinchley Wood's progress 8 score suggests it delivers well beyond the gate. Safety is the area's standout feature — graded A+, distinctly ahead of most of its other scores — though it's worth knowing that violence and sexual offences still account for over a third of the (small) number of incidents logged, which is a common pattern in low-crime areas where any single category can dominate the total. The overall crime trend is flat, so nothing here is worsening, but nothing is dramatically improving either — it's simply been quiet for a while.