Midhurst
Town · 5,552 residents
85Excellent
Excellent · better than 9 in 10 towns
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: 44 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- Transport scores 78, 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
- Infrastructure scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Midhurst
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Midhurst a good place to live?
Midhurst scores 85/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as excellent — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85) and health (84).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Midhurst in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Midhurst
Midhurst's centre is all mellow brick and stone frontages, independent shopfronts rather than chains, and the kind of quiet that comes from a place with barely three and a half thousand people living in it. You notice the age profile before you notice much else — a median age pushing 50, well above the national figure of 40 — and it shows in the pace: this is not a place full of nightclubs or late buses, it's a place where people came to settle rather than pass through.
The school your children would likely end up at, Midhurst Rother College, is rated Outstanding, and it sits alongside Midhurst CofE Primary as one of just two schools serving the area — small in number but strong in quality, which is a pattern worth sitting with. Housing here leans heavily toward freehold houses rather than flats or leasehold flats-over-shops: terraced homes are the single most common sale, detached houses trade at a serious premium (local detached median around £670,000 against a national £420,000), and there's no new-build estate diluting the mix. A For Sale board on a Midhurst street is overwhelmingly likely to be advertising an older freehold house, not a modern apartment. On price, the village sits close to the national median house price but noticeably below its own district — about 5% cheaper than Chichester as a whole, which is a useful anchor if you're used to Chichester's asking prices and expecting Midhurst to cost more.
Green space is modest in scale — fourteen pockets of it, under eight hectares in total, less generous per head than the regional average — but it's clearly enough to shape how people spend their time, alongside a restaurant and pub scene that punches above what you'd expect for the population size. Public transport runs to 77 stops, and the transport grade is strong even without a rail station in the picture, which tells you the village works well on foot and by bus but isn't built around a commuter line. Health provision earns the area's highest marks of all, which matters more as the population skews older.