Headley
Village · 432 residents
59Good
Good · better than 3 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: 49 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 73, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 33, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Headley
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Headley a good place to live?
Headley scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (75) and transport (73).
It scores lowest on health (33) and food & drink (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Headley in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Headley
Detached houses behind hedges, gravel drives, barely a soul on the pavement — Headley reads as the kind of village where you notice a car passing rather than a person walking. With just 71 people counted and a population density a fraction of the national average, this is thin-spread countryside living, not a village with a bustling centre to it.
The numbers back up the visual: this is a well-off corner of Hampshire, sitting in the eighth income and deprivation deciles nationally, and the property market confirms it emphatically. Every recorded sale here was a detached freehold home, with a median price of £717,500 — more than double the national median and landing in the 95th percentile for the whole country. Against the parent district of Basingstoke and Deane, homes here actually price a little below the district average, which tells you Basingstoke and Deane itself is no cheap place to buy. For schools, the picture is mixed and worth sitting with: Cheam School is a well-known independent nearby, but the state option in the data, Ashford Hill Primary, carries an Inadequate Ofsted rating — a genuine outlier against a village that otherwise scores solidly on safety, connectivity and environment. Anyone moving here for schooling needs to look past the village boundary rather than assume the local option will do.
Green space is present but modest — four plots totalling just over three hectares, so this isn't a village built around a grand park, more scattered pockets between properties. With thirteen transport stops but no rail station named in the data, day-to-day movement here leans on the car; broadband is decent, with two-thirds of properties on full fibre, which matters more than usual given how little else there is to plug into locally. Crime is genuinely low in absolute terms — four incidents in the past year — though violence and sexual offences make up the largest single share of the (small) breakdown, a pattern common in rural areas where any incident swings the percentages. The overall safety grade is the top mark on the whole scorecard, and the trend is flat, meaning nothing here is deteriorating.