Oldhill Wood
Village · 75 residents
59Good
Good · better than 3 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: 53 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 31, below the typical 60
- Health scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Oldhill Wood
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Oldhill Wood a good place to live?
Oldhill Wood scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (77).
It scores lowest on food & drink (31) and health (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Oldhill Wood in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Oldhill Wood
Detached houses set back behind hedgerows, gravel drives, not a terrace in sight — Oldhill Wood reads as the kind of village where people arrive once and stay put, given a median age nudging 57 against a national figure of 40. It's a small place (the population here counts in the dozens rather than thousands) and it feels it: low density, quiet lanes, the sort of spot where a stranger's car gets noticed.
The property market tells you who you're bidding against. Every recorded sale in the past stretch was freehold, dominated by detached houses, with a median price around £717,500 — more than double the national median and comfortably above the regional one too. That's not a starter-home village; it's a last-move or a serious-money-second-act village. Central Bedfordshire itself has a median nearer £352,000, so Oldhill Wood sits well above even its own patch. The one named school in the sample, Studham Village CofE Academy, is a small primary — 94 pupils — with no published Ofsted rating in this data, so judge it on visiting rather than on paper. There's no rail station listed here, which matters: this is a driving village, not a commuter-belt one, and anyone picturing a dash to a mainline platform should look elsewhere.
Day-to-day life is shaped by that same quietness. Green space and eating-out numbers aren't in the picture for this specific spot, but the crime figures are, and they're worth reading carefully rather than fearfully: the headline count is a literal single figure for the year, though the breakdown behind it — anti-social behaviour and violence-and-sexual-offences as the two biggest slices — reflects how a handful of incidents get categorised in a place this small, not a pattern of danger. The safety grade sits at the top of the scale, and that's the honest signal here: a place where crime is rare enough that each incident is a name, not a statistic. Broadband is solid without being cutting-edge — full-fibre reaches about two-thirds of premises, ahead of many rural pockets but not universal.