Leckhampton Hill
Village · 58 residents
91Excellent
Excellent · among the highest-scoring 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: 17 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 80, well above the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 77, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Leckhampton Hill
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Leckhampton Hill a good place to live?
Leckhampton Hill scores 91/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as excellent — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (97) and transport (80).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Leckhampton Hill in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Leckhampton Hill
Leckhampton Hill doesn't really have a high street — it has a hill, a scatter of houses, and the kind of quiet that comes from there being almost nobody around. With a population that barely registers and a density a fraction of the national average, this reads less as a village in the postcard sense and more as a rural fringe: fields, a scout of properties, and Cheltenham's edge somewhere below you.
There's one school actually inside the area, but the names on the map tell you plenty: Coberley Church of England Primary and North Cerney Church of England Primary Academy, both rated Good, sit within reach, alongside Rendcomb College for those looking at the independent route, and National Star College for specialist post-16 provision. This isn't a commuter belt in the train-station sense — there's no rail entry here, so anyone working in Cheltenham or Gloucester is doing it by car, and the seven transport stops on record confirm this is a driving sort of place rather than a walking-to-the-platform one. The median age of 48 tells you who's actually chosen to live here: settled, established, not chasing a first-time-buyer flat.
Housing here is not a starter proposition. Sales skew towards detached and "other" (bigger, harder-to-categorise rural properties), everything sold as freehold, and a median price sitting comfortably above £550,000 — nearly 29% higher than the wider Cotswold district itself, which is hardly a cheap benchmark to begin with. This is a place people move to once, having already done the flat-and-first-house stages elsewhere. The overall grade profile backs this up: health, safety and nightlife access all score at the top of the national scale, connectivity and transport solidly above average — the one dip is housing itself, graded only C+, which is the quiet tell that affordability and stock flexibility are the trade-off for the setting. Crime figures are drawn from a small sample and dominated by violence and sexual offences as the largest single category, but the raw counts are low enough that they read as background noise rather than a pattern to worry about.