Milverton
Suburb · 525 residents
60Good
Good · better than 5 in 10 suburbs
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: 34 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Schools scores 72, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 27, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 32, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Milverton
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Milverton a good place to live?
Milverton scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (73) and schools (72).
It scores lowest on health (27) and food & drink (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Milverton in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Milverton
Milverton's streets are lined with detached and semi-detached houses on generous plots, the sort of place where cars are newer than average and front gardens are actually gardens rather than bin storage. It reads as settled rather than transient — the median age sits close to fifty, a good decade above the national norm, and this is a place people move to and then stay.
The practical picture is a comfortable one. Income and deprivation figures put Milverton in the top tier nationally — income decile 10 and an IMD decile of 9 mean this is among the better-off corners of the country, not just the West Midlands. House prices reflect that: a typical sale here runs a little above Warwick district as a whole, and well clear of the national median, with detached homes in particular commanding a real premium over the national figure. Freehold dominates, semi-detached is the most common sale, and new-build is essentially absent — this is established housing stock, not a recent estate. Schooling is mixed rather than uniformly glowing: North Leamington School posts a strongly positive progress score, a solid comprehensive option, while Trinity Catholic School is rated as requiring improvement with negative progress figures — worth knowing before you assume every school on the list is a safe bet. Brookhurst Primary rounds out the local options for younger children.
Day-to-day life leans quiet. Green space provision is close to the regional average per head, and with a population of only a few hundred packed into a dense little pocket, it has the feel of a village folded into a larger town rather than a suburb in the sprawling sense. Full-fibre broadband reaches under half of homes, which is worth checking street by street if you work from home. The one grade that jars against the otherwise strong pattern is safety — rated top-tier overall, yet the crime breakdown shows violence and sexual offences accounting for a third of recorded incidents, with anti-social behaviour and vehicle crime making up much of the rest. The trend is flat rather than worsening, so it reads less as a spiral and more as a baseline to be aware of.