North Warnborough
Village · 1,188 residents
81Very 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
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- Schools scores 72, 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
- Road noise reaches 67% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Part of an official built-up area
Is North Warnborough a good place to live?
North Warnborough scores 81/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (90) and health (83).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for North Warnborough in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of North Warnborough
North Warnborough is the kind of village where the housing does the talking: brick-and-flint semis and detached homes on quiet plots, hedges rather than fences, and very little passing traffic beyond people who actually live there or are visiting the Basingstoke Canal. With a population under 300 and a median age approaching 50, this isn't a place geared around young families or nightlife — it's settled, and it looks it.
The property market here reflects that settled character rather sharply. Semi-detached and detached homes dominate what sells, freehold is the overwhelming tenure, and the numbers back up the visual impression of solid, unshowy wealth: a median sale price around £482,500, comfortably above the Hart average and well clear of the national picture. Detached homes here fetch nearly double the national median for the type. For schools, families lean on Robert May's School for secondary and Mayhill Junior or Buryfields Infant for the earlier years — all community-rooted rather than flashy, without published Ofsted grades in this data to lean on. Commuting is a more mixed story: with only a handful of bus stops and no rail station named in the immediate picture, this reads as a driving village more than a station village, so anyone tied to a daily rail commute should check the wider transport picture at Hook or Basingstoke before assuming an easy ride.
Day-to-day life here is shaped by green space rather than shops — the village sits close to the Basingstoke Canal and its towpath walks, and with green space count outweighing anything resembling a restaurant strip, the rhythm leans toward walking the dog or the canal rather than eating out. Healthcare and amenities read as adequate rather than abundant, in keeping with a small village that doesn't try to be a town. What stands out, and quietly sets the tone for the whole piece, is safety: an A+ grade against a backdrop of genuinely low crime numbers, with violence and anti-social behaviour making up the bulk of a very small annual count — the kind of place where an incident is talked about for weeks, not shrugged off as background noise.