Kings Worthy
Village · 4,879 residents
65Good
Good · better than 6 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 45 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Health scores 28, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 32, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Kings Worthy
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Kings Worthy a good place to live?
Kings Worthy scores 65/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (87).
It scores lowest on health (28) and food & drink (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Kings Worthy in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Kings Worthy
Kings Worthy reads as detached houses and hedges rather than a high street scene — this is the sort of village where the for-sale boards outnumber the shopfronts, and where the traffic on the old Winchester road is the main sign of life outside the school run. It sits close enough to Winchester to borrow its gravity without taking on its density, and that combination shows in almost everything else here.
The numbers back up the first impression: this is a settled, comfortable place rather than a cheap one. A median house price around £445,000 is a touch below what you'd pay in Winchester itself, but well above the regional and national norm, and the property mix — mostly detached freehold homes, with local detached prices running far above the national detached average — tells you a for-sale board here usually means a family home bought outright rather than a starter flat. Add a median age in the low forties and an Outstanding-rated Barton Farm Primary Academy alongside the well-regarded Kings Worthy Primary, and the picture is of settled households who've made a deliberate choice to trade a shorter commute for garden space and a good local school. With 26 transport stops serving a population of just over two thousand, this isn't a place built around a station — it's a place you drive from, or commute out of via Winchester itself.
Green space is generous relative to the size of the village — a dozen sites and over fifteen hectares for a population this size is a good ratio — and the overall safety picture is genuinely strong, with crime running low and the trend described as improving. That makes the one outlier worth naming plainly: violence and sexual offences account for over half of recorded crime here, a concentration that's unusual even allowing for how small the overall crime count is. It's the kind of figure that rewards a second look rather than alarm — in a village this size, a handful of incidents can dominate the percentages — but it sits oddly against an otherwise A-grade safety and environment profile, and it's worth understanding rather than skating past. Day-to-day healthcare and lifestyle grades are solid without being remarkable, more B than A, which fits a village where life happens quietly rather than out on display.