Hethe
Village · 255 residents
55Good
Good · better than 2 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: 24 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Hethe
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Hethe a good place to live?
Hethe scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (75).
It scores lowest on health (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hethe in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hethe
Hethe is the kind of place where the pace is set by the fields around it rather than anything on the street itself — a scatter of houses, a population you could fit into a couple of large office floors, and a density so low it barely registers next to the South East average. There's no high street to speak of here, and that's rather the point: this is a village for people who've already decided they don't want one.
The numbers back up the quiet. Six crimes in the past year is a small enough count that the category breakdown reads more like a list than a pattern, and safety comes out as the standout grade against an otherwise solid but unspectacular set — connectivity, affordability and transport all sit at a respectable B+, safety alone pushes into A territory, with the trend holding flat rather than improving or worsening. Housing is the one soft spot in the constellation, marked down to a C+, which is worth sitting with given what the property data shows: four recorded sales, split across detached, semi-detached and terraced, every single one freehold. A For Sale board here isn't advertising a flat or a leasehold flip; it's a straightforward, own-the-ground-you-stand-on kind of purchase, and at a median approaching £462,500 — sitting in the 80th percentile nationally and running well above both the national average and the Cherwell district figure by over a third — you're paying a premium for that scarcity and quiet rather than for square footage or proximity to anything.