Pennington
Suburb · 36 residents
62Good
Good · better than 6 in 10 suburbs
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: 28 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 35, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Pennington
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Pennington a good place to live?
Pennington scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (82).
It scores lowest on food & drink (35).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Pennington in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Pennington
Pennington reads as low-rise and residential — semi-detached houses on quiet plots, the kind of streets where a for-sale board tends to sit outside a 1930s or post-war semi rather than a new-build estate. Sixteen recent sales tell you most of what you need to know about the property mix here: semi-detached homes dominate, freehold is the norm rather than the exception, and there's essentially no new-build churn. This is a place people buy into and stay, not a turnover market.
On paper, Pennington sits below both its national and regional peers on income and deprivation deciles, and the median house price of £326,000 runs about 15% cheaper than the New Forest district it belongs to. That gap matters if you're priced out of the wider area — you get New Forest life at a discount, though the affordability grade of C+ suggests wages locally haven't caught up with even that reduced price tag. Rents, meanwhile, run higher than the national average, which tells you this is a place people want to occupy even if buying is a stretch for some.
The safety picture is the quiet standout here: an A grade for safety, with the trend marked improving, sits oddly alongside a crime breakdown dominated by violence and sexual offences at well over 60% of recorded incidents. That's not a contradiction so much as a small-numbers effect — ten crimes in twelve months is a low base, and one category swelling to majority share says more about statistical noise than a lived sense of danger. Locals will likely tell you it feels safe, and the numbers, thin as they are, back that up.