Hoe
Suburb · 119 residents
76Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- Property market scores 80, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 42 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Schools scores 77, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Hoe a good place to live?
Hoe scores 76/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for property market (80) and safety (78).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hoe in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hoe
Detached houses on generous plots, gravel drives, hedgerows rather than fences — Hoe reads as the kind of place people move to rather than grow up in and stay, with a median age well above the national figure and a population small enough that it barely registers as a suburb at all. This is Winchester's countryside edge, not its centre, and it looks it.
The numbers back up that impression of comfortable, unhurried wealth without quite being flush. A median house price around £353,500 sits just above the national average but slightly below what you'd pay across Winchester district as a whole, and the area's income decile of 3 alongside a mid-table deprivation score suggests a place that's asset-rich rather than high-earning — the sort of spot where people bought well years ago rather than one built for high salaries now. Housing here means detached freehold homes overwhelmingly: of the recent sales sampled, sixteen were detached against a handful of terraces and almost nothing leasehold, and a detached house locally will run you well above the national detached median. A board outside one of these houses is telling you "family home, paid off," not "starter flat." For schooling, Bishops Waltham Infant School carries an Outstanding rating, and Swanmore College handles secondary-age children with a progress score that's respectable without being exceptional — solid, not spectacular.
Green space and quiet dominate the rhythm of life here rather than restaurants or nightlife; this is a place for gardens and dog walks more than a café culture, and the housing stock itself — large detached plots at low density relative to the regional average — tells you most weekends are spent at home or out into the wider Hampshire countryside rather than on a high street. Safety is the standout grade, and it's genuinely earned: the trend is improving, and while violence and sexual offences make up half of the modest crime count, the raw numbers are small enough that this reads as a low-crime pocket rather than a statistical fluke. Health and connectivity grades sit more in the middle of the pack — full-fibre coverage under half suggests broadband here can be patchy depending on the property, worth checking before you commit to home-working.