Lower Kingswood
Village · 1,278 residents
56Good
Good · better than 2 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 50 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Environment scores 76, well above the typical 60
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- Road noise reaches 95% of the area
- Health scores 21, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Lower Kingswood
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Lower Kingswood a good place to live?
Lower Kingswood scores 56/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (78) and environment (76).
It scores lowest on health (21) and food & drink (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Lower Kingswood in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Lower Kingswood
Lower Kingswood reads as detached houses behind hedges, gravel drives, and very little passing traffic — the kind of village where the postman probably knows everyone by name. At 454 people and a population density a fraction of the regional average, this is low-key wealth rather than showy wealth, and it attracts people who've finished the career sprint: the median age here is 47, well above the national 40, and this isn't a place many young renters wash up in by accident.
The practical picture is where it gets interesting. There's just one school in the immediate area, Kingswood Primary, an academy converter with 179 pupils — solid but not the kind of place with a national reputation, so families sometimes look beyond the village for secondary options. Transport is modest rather than plentiful: six stops and no rail station recorded here, which tells you most people drive, and the sort of resident this suits already has a car and doesn't need a platform on the doorstep. Housing leans heavily semi-detached and detached, almost entirely freehold, and with a median sale price around £559,000 against a district (Reigate and Banstead) median nearly 18% higher, a board outside one of these houses is quietly signalling "comfortable, established, not cheap" without shouting about it — this sits close to the 90th percentile of house prices nationally, decile 9 for both income and general deprivation, so you're in one of the better-off pockets of the country by most measures.