Market Lavington
Village · 1,443 residents
75Very 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: 40 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 2 GP practices within a short walk
- Environment scores 75, 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
- Food & drink scores 29, below the typical 60
- Infrastructure scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Market Lavington
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Market Lavington a good place to live?
Market Lavington scores 75/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (86) and health (78).
It scores lowest on food & drink (29) and infrastructure (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Market Lavington in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Market Lavington
Market Lavington is the sort of place where semi-detached brick houses line quiet streets and the pace is set by dog walkers rather than delivery vans. It's a small village proper — barely over a hundred people by the count that matters here — and the housing stock, dominated by freehold semis with terraces filling in the gaps, tells you this is a settled, owner-occupied sort of place rather than a rental churn zone. Only one in eighteen recent sales was a new build, which fits: nobody is throwing up estates here, they're just quietly passing on houses that have been in the same hands a while.
The practical picture is where you have to read carefully. There's a primary school on the doorstep, St Barnabas Church of England School, and Lavington School covers secondary age with a progress-8 score of 0.32 — comfortably above the national average pupil progress benchmark, a genuinely useful data point if you have children heading through the local system. Dauntsey's School, a well-known independent, also sits in the area for those weighing that option. Connectivity is the honest weak spot: the transport grade sits at a middling C against an otherwise A-grade backdrop, and with ten local stops but no rail count to speak of, this reads as a driving village, not a commuting one. If your work depends on a fast train into a city, this isn't currently answering that brief.