Durgates
Suburb · 43 residents
69Good
Good · better than 8 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: 47 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
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- Food & drink scores 27, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Durgates
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Durgates a good place to live?
Durgates scores 69/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (82) and health (74).
It scores lowest on food & drink (27).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Durgates in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Durgates
Durgates reads like the edge of a market town that quietly did well for itself: a scatter of semi-detached and terraced houses, a handful of flats, brick frontages rather than new-build cladding, and a population small enough that you'd probably recognise the postman. At 304 people and a median age over 50, this isn't a place buzzing with young families or students — it's settled, older, and the streets feel that way too.
The housing picture backs this up. Sixteen recent sales split mostly between semi-detached and terraced homes, three-quarters of them freehold, with a median price around £396,000 — comfortably above the national median and about 9% higher than the wider Wealden district it sits within. That premium, alongside an income decile of 6 and an overall deprivation ranking in decile 7, places Durgates among the more comfortable corners of the South East without tipping into the county's most expensive brackets. Schooling locally centres on Uplands Academy for secondary-age pupils and Sacred Heart School as an independent option, though neither carries a published Ofsted rating here, so it's worth treating that as a conversation to have directly with the schools rather than a box already ticked.
Day-to-day life is compact rather than sprawling — one green space of just over half a hectare is the extent of the formal recreation on offer, which tells you this is a place for garden living and short local walks rather than long dog-walks through parkland. That scarcity of green space is the one figure that sits oddly against an otherwise comfortable set of grades, and it's worth weighing if open space matters to you. Full-fibre broadband reaches nearly 68% of properties, which matters more here than it might elsewhere, given how many residents likely work from home or are past commuting age. Rents average £1,266 a month, above the national figure but below the regional norm, suggesting Durgates undercuts its Home Counties neighbours slightly while still asking a premium over the country as a whole.