East Chiltington
Village · 415 residents
59Good
Good · better than 3 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 63 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 1 rail or tube station within a short walk
- Schools scores 70, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 27, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around East Chiltington
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is East Chiltington a good place to live?
East Chiltington scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (74) and transport (72).
It scores lowest on health (27).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for East Chiltington in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of East Chiltington
East Chiltington reads as scattered cottages and farmhouses more than a village centre — the kind of place where the pub and the church do most of the social work, and where you're more likely to pass a tractor than a bus. With just over four hundred people spread thinly across the parish, and a median age pushing 48, this is a settled, older population rather than a starter-home crowd.
The practical picture takes a bit of piecing together, because there isn't much of one to piece. There's no rail station in the data here and no primary or secondary school in the village itself — the only listed school is Plumpton College, a further-education campus, which tells you this isn't a place with its own school run. Four bus stops serve the parish. Full-fibre broadband reaches seven in ten homes, which is a decent baseline if you're working from the cottage rather than commuting out of it. This is a place you drive from, not one you commute through.
Property here is almost entirely freehold houses — terraced homes dominate the small sample of recent sales, alongside a scattering of detached properties, and every sale in the data was freehold, which fits a village with no flats and no new-build estate to speak of. At a median of £365,000, prices sit a little below the wider Lewes district (down about 3%) and below the South East regional median too, though still comfortably above the national figure. It's not cheap, but relative to its own district it's not the premium end either. Green space is limited on paper — six small plots totalling under two hectares — though in a working countryside parish like this, the real green space is the farmland around you rather than anything mapped as parkland.