Newbold Verdon
Village · 2,910 residents
69Good
Good · better than 8 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 66 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Food & drink scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Newbold Verdon
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Newbold Verdon a good place to live?
Newbold Verdon scores 69/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (76).
It scores lowest on food & drink (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Newbold Verdon in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Newbold Verdon
Newbold Verdon reads as a settled, low-rise village of semis and detached houses rather than a commuter dormitory — the kind of place where cars are parked on driveways, not streets, and nothing much is open past six. At 395 people to the square kilometre against a regional figure north of 2,600, it's noticeably more spread out and quiet than the East Midlands norm, and a median age of 49 tells you this isn't a village full of young families chasing their first step onto the ladder.
Housing here is dominated by semi-detached freehold homes — eighteen of the nineteen recent sales were freehold, only one leasehold, and detached houses make up a good share too — so a For Sale board on most streets signals an outright purchase of a family-sized house, not a flat share. Prices sit close to the parent district of Hinckley and Bosworth, a touch above it, and comfortably below the national median, which puts Newbold Verdon in that comfortable middle ground: not cheap by local standards, but far from the stretched price points you'd find nearer Leicester or further south. Newbold Verdon Primary School, rated Good, is the only school in the village, so families here are generally sending children out of the village once they reach secondary age. There's no rail station logged for the area, so this is a place built around the car and the 18 local bus stops rather than a train commute.
Green space is generous relative to the population — nearly nine hectares spread across five sites for fewer than 400 residents — which shapes the rhythm of the place more than any restaurant strip does; this is a village for walking a dog round a field, not for browsing a high street of restaurants, since none are logged here. Health outcomes score strongly, among the best in the dataset, which aligns with an older, settled population that tends to stay rather than turn over — the sales turnover rate is actually below both the regional and national average, reinforcing that sense of people putting down roots and not moving again.