Nuffield
Village · 852 residents
73Very 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: 80 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- Environment scores 70, 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
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Nuffield
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Nuffield a good place to live?
Nuffield scores 73/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (80) and health (72).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Nuffield in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Nuffield
Nuffield is the sort of place where the pub car park has more Land Rovers than saloons and the houses sit back from the road behind hedgerows rather than fences. There's no high street to speak of — this is scattered rural England, chalk and beech woodland along the Chilterns escarpment, and it attracts people who have already decided they don't need a parade of shops on the doorstep.
The property market here tells its own story before you even get to the numbers: three recorded sales, all freehold, split between detached and semi-detached homes, with a median price close to £944,000 — more than double the South Oxfordshire district figure it sits within. A "For Sale" board on this lane isn't advertising a starter home; it's advertising a lifestyle purchase, and the near-total freehold tenure means you're buying the land as much as the house. Set against a national median of £281,000, this is a village operating in a different market entirely, though the small sample size means any single sale can swing the average hard. Schools aren't listed by name here, but the area's overall schools grade sits solidly mid-table, and with a median age of 44.6 — a good four years above the national figure — this reads less as a young-family commuter belt and more as a settled, older population who've already raised children or never needed the school run to define where they live.
Green space is the organising fact of daily life: five sites covering just under 50 hectares for a population of only 790 people, a ratio that dwarfs both the regional and national averages per head. Weekends here are shaped by walking routes and the woods rather than restaurant rows — there's no meaningful eating-out scene to speak of in the data, so this is a place you drive out from for dinner, not one you stroll to a bistro in. Health outcomes score well, safety scores well, and the environment grade is about as high as they come, which together paint a picture of a low-stress, low-density place to spend a Saturday: a walk, a pub lunch, home before dark.