Hose
Village · 479 residents
59Good
Good · better than 3 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: 31 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Hose a good place to live?
Hose scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (80) and affordability (70).
It scores lowest on health (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hose in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hose
Hose is the kind of place where detached stone and brick houses sit on their own plots with room to spare, and the quiet tells you most of the population has lived there, or somewhere like it, for decades. The median age nudges 52, a good decade above the national figure, and that shows in the pace of the place more than in anything you could point to.
The practical picture is straightforward rather than rich. There's one school in the village itself, Hose Church of England Primary, a small voluntary-controlled school with under fifty pupils, and if you want a school with a known Ofsted rating you'd be looking at Harby Church of England Primary, rated Good. Transport is thin on the ground — a handful of stops rather than a station in the village — which fits a commute profile of driving rather than rail. Housing leans heavily toward detached freehold homes; of recent sales, eight in ten were detached, and nine in ten outright freehold, which is the unmistakable signature of a settled, owner-occupied village rather than a rental or new-build market. At a median of nearly £470,000, Hose sits well above both the Melton district median and the national figure — this is a place where buying in costs more than the surrounding area would suggest, reflecting the detached stock rather than any general regional premium.
Green space is limited in formal terms — a few small named plots rather than acres of park — so day-to-day life here is more about the garden and the surrounding countryside than a central common. Crime is genuinely low in absolute terms, and the mix that does appear, led by violence and sexual offences and vehicle crime, reads more like isolated incidents than a pattern to worry over, especially set against the village's strong safety grade. That safety grade, alongside top marks for transport access to the wider road network and affordability relative to income, forms a consistent picture — comfortable, secure, unhurried — with connectivity the one area that trails, a reminder that broadband and mobile signal, not crime or safety, is where Hose asks for patience.