Goring Heath
Village · 1,478 residents
60Good
Good · better than 4 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: 26 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Health scores 17, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Goring Heath
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Goring Heath a good place to live?
Goring Heath scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (93).
It scores lowest on health (17).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Goring Heath in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Goring Heath
Goring Heath doesn't really have a high street to read, and that's the first thing worth knowing: it's scattered houses, a common, and a lot of trees between Reading and Henley, the kind of place you drive through slowly because there's nowhere obvious to arrive. It attracts people who've already decided they don't want a centre — no parade of shops, no visible pulse — just hedgerows, gravel drives and the quiet assumption that amenities happen elsewhere.
There isn't enough here in the way of hard local numbers to build you a proper picture of schools, commuting or crime in Goring Heath itself — no rail counts, no Ofsted sample, no crime breakdown to draw on. What can be said with any confidence comes from the surrounding district. South Oxfordshire's own median house price sits at £425,000, well above the national median of £281,000 and above the South East regional figure of £367,500 too — this is a part of the country where property costs more than most, hamlets like this typically more so given the scarcity of anything for sale at all.
That scarcity is really the character of the place. You won't find a run of listings to compare; a house here comes up rarely, and when it does it tends to be detached, on its own land, and priced with the assumption that space and privacy are the product, not the location. Given the district's price position — comfortably above both regional and national norms — this isn't a spot where compromise on budget buys you compromise on peace and quiet; it tends to be the reverse.