Punnett's Town
Village · 433 residents
64Good
Good · better than 5 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: 39 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Food & drink scores 29, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Punnett's Town
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Punnett's Town a good place to live?
Punnett's Town scores 64/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85).
It scores lowest on food & drink (29).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Punnett's Town in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Punnett's Town
Punnett's Town is the kind of place where the houses do the talking — terraced and semi-detached brick fronts on quiet lanes, mostly owned outright, with nothing that looks recently built. There's no high street to speak of, no run of shops or cafés; what you notice instead is how few people there are and how settled they seem, the sort of village where a passing car gets a second glance simply because it's an event.
The numbers back up that impression of an older, established community: a median age in the early fifties against a national figure closer to forty, and a population you could fit into a couple of large office floors. There's one primary in the village itself — Punnetts Town Community Primary and Nursery School — with All Saints' and St Richard's CE Primary also serving families locally, and Heathfield Community College picking up secondary-age children with a solid, if unspectacular, Ofsted "Good" and progress scores roughly in line with expectations. Public transport is thin — a couple of stops and nothing rail-based worth planning a commute around — so this is a place for people who drive, or who've already stopped commuting altogether. Housing here is freehold almost without exception, weighted towards terraced and semi-detached stock, and it sells at a premium: a median price near £437,000 sits comfortably above both the national figure and Wealden district itself, by close to a fifth. A "For Sale" board here signals a small, close, expensive corner of the district, not a starter-home pipeline.