Hurley in West Midlands has a Check Local Score of 64/100 (good), drawn from official data on safety, schools, transport, housing, amenities and the local environment, each measured against the national average — a score of 60 is typical for the country.
Hurley reads as a small, tight cluster of houses off the main road, the kind of place where you notice a car you don't recognise. There's no high street to speak of, no run of shops to give it a public face — this is a village defined by its edges, by the fields and the quiet rather than any centre.
The essentials here are modest and specific. Hurley Primary School, rated Good, is the only school in the village, and with a median age of just under 40 it's a fair bet that families with young children make up a good slice of the population — this isn't a place dominated by retirees or twenty-somethings passing through. There are eight transport stops but no rail station of note in the data, so this reads as a driving village rather than a commuter-line one; anyone working further afield in Birmingham or Coventry will be doing it by road. On the property side, what little turns over is dominated by freehold semi-detached houses, and at a median of £247,000 it actually undercuts both the regional and national averages, and sits close to the parent district of North Warwickshire rather than pulling away from it — a For Sale board here is more likely to say "modest family house, own it outright" than "investment opportunity."
Green space is present but not generous — three plots covering under two hectares, so the feel is more back-garden-and-field-edge than any single big park to gather in. There's no restaurant or pub named in what's on record here, and no second school to compare against, so day-to-day life looks like people making their own entertainment or driving out for it. On health and environment the area scores strongly, which tracks with the low density and rural setting — this is not a place with pollution or overcrowding problems. Safety is more textured: the overall picture is solid and holds steady year on year, but violence and sexual offences make up over a third of the (admittedly small) crime count, an odd note in what otherwise reads as an unremarkable, low-crime village — worth knowing rather than worrying over, given the raw numbers are small.
This suits people who want distance from crowds and don't mind doing without a village centre — a family who's happy driving children to school and shopping elsewhere, or a couple wanting a freehold house away from traffic and noise. It won't suit anyone who wants rail commuting, evening options on foot, or much choice in schools, because there isn't much of either here.
Data last updated: 15 August 2026
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