Ham Marsh
Suburb · 401 residents
58Good
Good · better than 4 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: 42 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 24% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Food & drink scores 19, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Ham Marsh a good place to live?
Ham Marsh scores 58/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (80).
It scores lowest on food & drink (19).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ham Marsh in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ham Marsh
Ham Marsh reads like a village that got absorbed by the map rather than a suburb built to a plan: terraced and semi-detached streets, mostly freehold, mostly bought to stay rather than flip. With just over 400 people and a density well below the regional norm, it feels loose-knit rather than packed-in, the kind of place where a for-sale board doesn't stay up long.
Money-wise, this sits comfortably: a top income decile and one of the least deprived pockets nationally, though the median house price of £362,500 is actually below what you'd pay across West Berkshire as a whole, a rare case of a well-off area pricing slightly under its own patch. Terraced houses dominate the sales here, and they change hands well above the national terraced median, so the discount against the wider authority is relative, not a bargain. The safety grade stands out as the area's strongest suit — clean, flat, and unshaken over time — even though the raw crime rate looks high next to West Berkshire's average. With crime counted from a base of just 20 incidents in twelve months, small numbers swing percentages hard, and the picture reads as genuinely low-crime rather than alarming. Violence and anti-social behaviour still lead the list, as they do almost everywhere, but there's no burglary or vehicle-crime spike to worry about.
Connectivity and transport both grade well above average, and full-fibre coverage above three-quarters of properties means working from the terrace is a realistic option, not an aspiration. Schools sit in the same solid band as safety and housing — nothing to second-guess, nothing spectacular flagged either. The one grade that breaks the pattern is health, sitting at a C+ against a run of Bs and As elsewhere, worth a mental note if daily access to services matters to you, though not a hard block on its own. Council tax at Band D runs close to the national median, which softens the sting of the area's overall affluence.