Kirby Misperton
Village · 304 residents
73Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
- 12 places to eat and drink
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 66 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Environment scores 71, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 45% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Kirby Misperton
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Kirby Misperton a good place to live?
Kirby Misperton scores 73/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (88) and safety (75).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Kirby Misperton in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Kirby Misperton
Kirby Misperton reads as scattered farmhouses and stone-built cottages rather than a high street — this is a village in the loosest sense, with a population you could fit in a single large primary school and fields doing most of the talking. It attracts people who've already decided they don't want a village centre, just a postcode near one: the median age sits close to fifty, a decade above the national figure, which tells you this is a place people retire into or settle in late, not pass through in their twenties.
The practical picture here needs some care with the numbers. There's no rail station or Outstanding-rated school in the immediate picture — the one sampled school, Amotherby Community Primary, carries a Requires Improvement rating, which is the one grade in this file that doesn't match the surrounding pattern of A's and B's. Anyone moving here for schooling alone should visit and ask questions rather than assume the village's overall polish extends to its classroom. Broadband, by contrast, is solid: four in five properties can get full-fibre, which matters more than it once did given how many people here likely work from home rather than commute to one.
Green space is present but modest — four small plots totalling under three hectares, enough for a dog walk rather than a proper ramble, and there's no named pub or restaurant in the record to anchor a weekend around. What the file does support is a strong safety picture: crime sits far below the North Yorkshire average, and even the leading category, violence and sexual offences, is drawn from a very small annual count in a very small population, so a handful of incidents swings the percentages more than they would in a town. The "flat" trend on safety suggests this isn't a place getting better or worse — it's simply quiet, and has been for a while. Housing here is almost entirely freehold, semi-detached or detached houses changing hands rather than flats, and at a median approaching £412,000 it runs noticeably above both the North Yorkshire and England-wide medians — a for-sale board here means a proper house, not a starter flat, and buyers are paying a premium for the quiet rather than for any particular local amenity.