Maisemore
Village · 600 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 28 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 30% 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
- Health scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Maisemore a good place to live?
Maisemore scores 73/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (97).
It scores lowest on health (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Maisemore in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Maisemore
Detached houses on generous plots, gravel driveways, hedgerows rather than pavements in places — Maisemore reads as a village built around people who have already made their money and want quiet. With a population barely into the dozens by the count here and a median age approaching fifty, this is not a place buzzing with young families finding their feet. It's a settled, well-off corner of Gloucestershire, and it looks it.
The numbers back up that impression rather than complicate it. This sits in the ninth decile for deprivation nationally, meaning it's among the less deprived places in the country, and the median property price of £480,000 runs around 60% above the figure for Tewkesbury district as a whole — so a For Sale sign here is pitched well above the local norm, not just the national one. Every recorded sale in the sample was a detached freehold home, which tells you what the housing stock is: there's little here for someone wanting a flat or a starter terrace. Schooling is represented by Highnam CofE Primary Academy, rated Good, which fits a village that draws people planning to stay rather than commute-and-move-on; with only four transport stops recorded and no rail station named in the data, this reads as a car-dependent spot, not a station-village for London or Bristol commuters.
Green space and community life aren't detailed here beyond the shape of the place itself, but the crime picture is worth sitting with for a moment. The overall safety grade is the strongest in the whole profile — top-tier and flat, meaning stable, over time — yet the breakdown shows violence and sexual offences and anti-social behaviour making up over half of the (very small) number of incidents logged. That's the one grade pattern worth noticing: an otherwise uniformly strong scorecard — health, affordability, transport, nightlife all comfortably above the national average — with safety sitting at the very top rather than as an outlier underneath it. With such a small population base, a handful of incidents can swing the percentages sharply, so treat the breakdown as texture rather than alarm.