Horne
Village · 1,080 residents
57Good
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
- Transport scores 75, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 78 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 39, where 60 is typical
- Health scores 17, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Horne
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Horne a good place to live?
Horne scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for transport (75) and safety (73).
It scores lowest on health (17) and affordability (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Horne in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Horne
Horne sits in that stretch of the Surrey-Sussex border where hamlets outnumber high streets, and there is not much here in the way of shopfronts or passing trade — this is a place defined by fields, hedgerows and distance from the nearest bypass, not by a parade of shops. If you are picturing somewhere with a Costa and a station clock, that is not this.
The trouble is that there is almost nothing to pin down about Horne itself in hard terms — no local house price, crime, school or transport figures came back for the hamlet specifically. What we do have is its parent district, Tandridge, where the median house price sits at £475,000, well above the regional figure of £367,500 and further still above the £281,000 national median — a strong signal that this whole corner of Surrey trades at a premium, and there's no reason to think a hamlet within it bucks that pattern. Beyond that, though, guessing at Horne's own school catchments, commute times or crime rate would be just that — guessing.
What this tells you, in practice, is that Horne is the kind of place you'd want to visit before committing to, rather than one you can assess from a screen. The district-level price premium suggests a well-off, rural part of Surrey; everything else — how the roads feel at rush hour, which village hall doubles as a social hub, where the nearest good school actually is — you'll need to find out on the ground.