Hawkenbury
Suburb · 26 residents
64Good
Good · better than 7 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
- 71% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 38 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Health scores 30, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Hawkenbury
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Hawkenbury a good place to live?
Hawkenbury scores 64/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (78) and safety (74).
It scores lowest on health (30) and food & drink (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hawkenbury in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hawkenbury
Hawkenbury's streets are the kind that estate agents photograph in soft light: terraces and semis with a scattering of detached houses, hedges kept tidy, cars that look recently washed. It sits on the edge of Tunbridge Wells proper, close enough to borrow the town's polish without quite having a high street identity of its own. The feel is settled rather than young — this is a place people move to once, then stay.
That sense of settledness shows up everywhere you look. The median age of 44 is well above the national figure, and the housing stock backs it up: freehold houses dominate, terraces lead the sales mix, and at a median of £472,500 the area runs about 12.5% above Tunbridge Wells as a whole, which is itself no bargain. A detached house here will typically fetch close to double the national detached price. This isn't a first-rung property ladder — it's where people land after a few moves, often paying a premium for the postcode as much as the house. On schooling, St Peter's Church of England Primary gives families a known, local option, though Ofsted judgements for the schools sampled here aren't listed, so take the reputation on trust rather than paper.
The grade pattern is where Hawkenbury gets interesting. Across the board it reads as comfortably above the national average — housing, environment, affordability, connectivity all sitting in solid B or B+ territory — and then safety jumps to an A, the standout grade of the set. Crime sits low in absolute terms, and the trend is flat rather than rising, which matters more than the single-year count. The one soft spot is nightlife, graded C+, and it's an honest reflection of the place: this isn't somewhere you come for a night out, it's somewhere you come home to. Green space is real but modest — one named area of just under 6.6 hectares — enough for a dog walk or a Sunday stretch of the legs, not a sprawling park system. With full fibre reaching three-quarters of properties, it's well set up for people working from home as much as commuting out.