Flyford Flavell
Village · 153 residents
63Good
Good · better than 5 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: 33 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 73, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 70, well above the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Flyford Flavell
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Flyford Flavell a good place to live?
Flyford Flavell scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (77) and affordability (73).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Flyford Flavell in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Flyford Flavell
Detached houses on generous plots, gravel drives, hedgerows rather than fences — that's the visual story here, and it tells you most of what you need to know before you even check a price. This is a village in the true sense: a scattering of homes rather than a settlement with a centre of gravity, and the kind of place where you recognise cars before you recognise faces.
The numbers back up what your eyes would tell you. A median age pushing 56 against a national figure in the low 40s means this is not a village full of young families finding their feet — it's one where people arrive settled and stay. Housing here is almost entirely detached and freehold, and the one property sale comparison available shows local detached homes fetching notably more than the national detached median. Wychavon, the wider district this sits within, already has a median house price above the national average, and Flyford Flavell itself sits comfortably above even that. There's one primary school, Flyford Flavell Primary, serving the immediate community — a small community school rather than a large feeder, which suits a place with only a few hundred residents. Six transport stops keep local mobility ticking over, though this is a drive-first sort of place, not a walk-to-the-station one.
Green space is modest in raw hectares, but at this population density it goes a long way — this is a village where the countryside itself is the amenity, not a designated park within it. There's no real high street to speak of, no cluster of restaurants; life here is built around the house, the garden, and trips out rather than trips downstairs. Crime is low in absolute terms — a single-figure annual count that keeps the safety grade at the top of the scale, with violence and sexual offences the largest single share simply because the numbers are so small that one category dominates the percentages. That safety picture has held flat rather than swung either way, which for a village this size is exactly what you'd hope to see: nothing happening, repeatedly.