Horndon on the Hill
Village · 1,268 residents
62Good
Good · better than 4 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Environment scores 73, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 23, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Horndon on the Hill
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Horndon on the Hill a good place to live?
Horndon on the Hill scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (23).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Horndon on the Hill in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Horndon on the Hill
Horndon on the Hill still looks like the village its name suggests: a huddle of period brick and weatherboarded cottages around a pub-and-church centre, with detached family homes filling the lanes behind. It's the kind of place where the streetscape does the talking — no parade of chain shops, no obvious churn, just a settled community that has stayed roughly the size it always was. At a median age of 51 against a national figure closer to 40, this isn't a village full of young households finding their feet; it's one where people arrive and stay.
That settled quality shows up in the property picture too. Sales here skew heavily towards detached houses sold freehold — every recorded sale in the local sample was freehold, and the median price of £595,000 sits close to the 92nd percentile nationally, well above both the England-wide median and the wider Thurrock figure. A For Sale board on one of these lanes is signalling something specific: this is a place you buy into outright, not a rung on a ladder. Horndon-on-the-Hill CofE Primary, rated Good, is the only school actually in the village, which suits a population that has largely finished with the school run rather than one just starting it. There's no rail station listed for the village itself, so anyone commuting will be doing it by road rather than platform.
Day-to-day life leans on the outdoors rather than a high street's worth of options — six green spaces cover a decent stretch of land for a settlement this small, more generous per head than the regional average, and that space is clearly where weekends go: dog walks, churchyard wanders, pub lunches rather than restaurant crawls. The area's overall grade profile is strong and consistent — high marks for environment and health, solid ones for transport and affordability — with nightlife the one clear outlier, graded C+, a reminder that evenings out mean driving somewhere else. Crime sits low in absolute terms, just eight incidents logged in the past year, though the rate compares unfavourably against the Thurrock average; with numbers this small, a handful of incidents can swing the percentage sharply, so it's worth reading as noise on a very quiet baseline rather than a pattern.