Hopwas
Village · 397 residents
64Good
Good · better than 5 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
- Environment scores 73, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 71 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 70, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 19% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 28, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Hopwas a good place to live?
Hopwas scores 64/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (73) and safety (72).
It scores lowest on health (28).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hopwas in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hopwas
Hopwas is the kind of place where the streetscape does the talking before you've read a single statistic: detached houses on quiet lanes, a scatter of greenery, and barely fifty people counted as living within its boundary. This is not a village built for passing trade or a bustling centre — it's residential in the purest sense, the sort of spot you drive into deliberately, not through.
The property picture backs this up plainly. Detached homes dominate what little turns over here — eight of the seventeen recent sales — nearly all freehold, and a median price near £400,000 that sits comfortably above both the Lichfield district figure and the national average. A For Sale board on this street is telling you: settled owners, long tenures, houses bought to stay in rather than flip. That premium over Lichfield itself (Hopwas runs a third higher) marks this out as one of the district's more comfortable corners, though it's worth saying the sample here is small enough that any single sale can move the median more than it would in a larger suburb.
Day to day, Hopwas leans on what's around it rather than what's in it. There's no high street to speak of, but green space is close at hand — four separate patches within the village boundary, modest in size but part of the fabric rather than an afterthought. Schooling follows a similar pattern to the housing: there's no school actually inside Hopwas, but a short list of options ring it, including St Leonard's CofE Primary and The Howard Primary School, both rated Good, alongside Lift Rawlett for secondary age, whose progress scores are more mixed. Families here are typically not chasing a school gate on the doorstep — they're weighing a slightly longer school run against the quiet of the lane they live on.