Ham, The
Suburb · 34 residents
54Fair
Fair · better than 3 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: 59 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Property market scores 73, well above the typical 60
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- Health scores 16, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 20, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Ham, The a good place to live?
Ham, The scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (79) and property market (73).
It scores lowest on health (16) and food & drink (20).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ham, The in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ham, The
Ham, The doesn't give up much if you go looking for it in the usual places — no high street inventory, no census breakdown, none of the granular texture that usually lets a place speak for itself. What's here is really just its position on the map: a locality within Wiltshire, in the South West, sitting inside a county where the typical home sells for around £315,000 and crime runs at roughly 62 incidents per 1,000 people.
That absence of local detail matters as much as any statistic would. Without figures on population, schools, transport links or green space specific to Ham, The, there's no honest way to describe the streetscape, the commute, or the kind of household that gathers there on a weekend. Wiltshire itself sits close to the national and regional averages on most measures — house prices a touch below the South West's £305,000 median, crime levels in the ordinary range for an English unitary authority — so this is a county of unremarkable, steady character rather than sharp extremes. But a county-level average cannot tell you what a particular lane, green or row of cottages feels like, and stretching it to do so would be a guess dressed up as knowledge.
If you're weighing up Ham, The specifically, the honest answer is that the wider Wiltshire context gives you a reasonable steer on affordability and safety relative to the rest of the country, but the on-the-ground detail — the school gates, the pub, the bus timetable, the sense of who actually lives there — isn't something that can be answered from what's available here. Worth a visit before anything else.