Hurst Park
Suburb · 63 residents
71Very good
Very good · better than 8 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 100% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 63 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 55% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 36, where 60 is typical
- Road noise reaches 55% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Hurst Park
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Hurst Park a good place to live?
Hurst Park scores 71/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (83) and safety (80).
It scores lowest on affordability (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Hurst Park in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Hurst Park
Hurst Park is the kind of place where the terraces and semis have been done up rather than done over — sash windows, gravel drives where there's room for one, the odd Ocado van parked half on the kerb. It sits inside Elmbridge, which tells you most of what you need to know before you've read a single number: this is commuter-belt Surrey-fringe living, not inner-London hustle, and it looks the part.
The property market backs that up plainly. Terraced houses dominate what's sold here, freehold is the default rather than the exception, and the median price of £515,000 undercuts the wider Elmbridge figure by around 10% — so a for-sale board here reads as "same postcode prestige, slightly gentler number" rather than a bargain. Against the national picture it's still firmly upmarket: a typical semi here fetches over double the national semi-detached price. Schools follow a similar pattern to the housing — solid rather than showy. Hurst Park Primary Academy carries a Good rating and takes several hundred pupils, and Heathside serves secondary-age children locally; there's no Outstanding name in the mix here, but nothing that would give a parent pause either. With a median age of nearly 44, this reads less like a first-time-buyer enclave and more like a place people move to and stay, often once the commute matters less than the garden.
Green space is tight rather than generous — two plots totalling a little over two hectares, which is modest set against the regional average, so this isn't a place built around sprawling parkland; it's a place where you drive or walk to Hurst Park's riverside stretches and the wider Molesey green spaces rather than having them on the doorstep. Connectivity holds up better than the green-space figure suggests, with decent full-fibre coverage feeding into a broadband grade that sits above where the safety and health figures might lead you to expect. That's really the quiet tension in the data: the safety grade here is the standout, comfortably ahead of the local pattern, while health and affordability sit more in the middle of the pack — a reminder that a low-crime, low-deprivation postcode doesn't automatically buy you everything else.