Netley Marsh
Town · 2,365 residents
46Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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: 66 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 25, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 25, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Netley Marsh
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Netley Marsh a good place to live?
Netley Marsh scores 46/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (79).
It scores lowest on food & drink (25) and health (25).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Netley Marsh in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Netley Marsh
Netley Marsh reads as detached-house, paddock-adjacent England: wide verges, cars rather than buses, the kind of place where the gardens are bigger than the houses that sit in them. It's a village with a town label more than it looks like anywhere urban, and the 25 recent sales back that up — nineteen of them detached, every single one freehold, nothing new-build. A For Sale board here is telling you about a family home bought outright and kept for a while, not a flat changing hands on a buy-to-let spreadsheet.
The numbers underline who's actually living behind those hedges: a median age pushing 56, well above the national profile, in a place with one rail connection reachable on foot and a single school within the boundary itself — Netley Marsh Church of England Infant School, rated Good. Families needing more choice tend to look just beyond the village to Foxhills Infant and Junior, both also Good, which suggests parents here are used to a short drive rather than a walk to the school gate. This isn't a commuter-belt sprint to the station each morning; it's a settled, older population who mostly aren't rushing anywhere.
Money-wise, this sits comfortably: income levels put it near the top decile nationally, and a median house price around £520,000 is over half as much again as the New Forest district it belongs to — detached homes here are trading at £640,000 against a national detached median closer to £420,000. House prices have been essentially flat over the past year, not sliding, not racing. Safety is the standout grade, and it's rare to find it paired with a weak score elsewhere — here that weak spot is health provision, worth checking on if GP access or hospital distance matters more to you than crime figures do, which for an older population is a real consideration rather than a footnote. Violence and sexual offences account for the largest single share of the modest crime count, which is typical of how these figures get categorised locally rather than a sign of trouble on the ground, and the five-year trend in safety is described as improving.