Hog Hatch
Village · 1,605 residents
72Very good
Very good · better than 8 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: 46 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 63% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 18, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 24, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Hog Hatch
Map outline: Neighbourhood boundary drawn by OpenStreetMap contributors
Is Hog Hatch a good place to live?
Hog Hatch scores 72/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (89) and environment (83).
It scores lowest on health (18) and food & drink (24).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hog Hatch in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hog Hatch
Hog Hatch sits in that part of Surrey and Sussex borderland where villages are known more by word of mouth than by any high street identity — and that's the case here too. There isn't a visible retail strip or a cluster of names to hang a first impression on, which is itself telling: this reads as a residential village within Waverley, the kind of place people find through a house search rather than a passing visit.
What can be said with any confidence is the price context. Waverley as a whole carries a median house price of £516,000, well above both the South East regional median of £367,500 and the national figure of £281,000 — so a property in this district, Hog Hatch included, sits toward the expensive end of the country's spectrum before you even factor in village scarcity value, which tends to push small-settlement prices higher still against the district average.
Beyond that benchmark, the specific texture of Hog Hatch — its schools, its transport links, its crime pattern, its green space — isn't something I can responsibly sketch for you. No school names, station details, or local statistics have surfaced for this particular village, and reaching for regional or national averages to fill those gaps would tell you about Waverley or the South East in general, not about Hog Hatch itself. If you're weighing a move here, the sensible next step is a postcode-level search, which tends to surface the school Ofsted ratings, nearest stations, and crime breakdown that make the difference between a house price and a place to live.