Old Warren
Village · 171 residents
53Fair
Fair · better than 1 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: 47 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 12% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 25, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Old Warren
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Old Warren a good place to live?
Old Warren scores 53/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (73).
It scores lowest on health (25) and food & drink (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Old Warren in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Old Warren
Old Warren doesn't really have a high street in the way most places do — this is scattered rural housing, a handful of properties, and the kind of quiet that comes from a population you could fit in a village hall. With a median age approaching 51, this isn't a place with young families crowding the pavements; it reads as settled, older, and content to stay that way.
The practical picture is a mixed one, and worth sitting with. Midgham Rail Station gives you a line out without needing a car for every journey, and the connectivity grade backs that up. Schools are thin on the ground but solid where they exist — Aldermaston C.E. Primary School carries a Good rating, and Silchester Church of England Primary School sits alongside it, so families here are looking at a village-school setup rather than a big secondary catchment. Housing is where it gets interesting: sales skew toward "Other" property types and a Freehold-dominant tenure, with a median price around £467,500 — well above the national figure and even above the regional one, though still a shade under what you'd pay in the wider Basingstoke and Deane district. A board outside a house here is more likely to say converted barn or period cottage than new-build semi — new-build share is effectively zero.
Green space is limited on paper — just two named areas covering a little over five hectares — but with a population this small, that stretches further than the number suggests; it's not a place short of room to walk. There's no restaurant or pub named in what's here, and no GP or health venue either, so day-to-day life leans on nearby towns for eating out and healthcare rather than anything on the doorstep — worth checking before you assume it's all on tap locally. The one grade that stands apart from an otherwise comfortable set is health, sitting at C+ against a run of Bs and an A for environment and safety — crime here is low in absolute terms (five incidents logged, with violent and sexual offences the largest single share) but that C+ is the thing to ask a local GP practice about before you commit.