Shipton Bellinger
Village · 1,250 residents
55Good
Good · better than 2 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 39 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Health scores 25, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 26, below the typical 60
- Infrastructure scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Shipton Bellinger
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Shipton Bellinger a good place to live?
Shipton Bellinger scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85).
It scores lowest on health (25) and food & drink (26).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Shipton Bellinger in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Shipton Bellinger
Shipton Bellinger is the kind of place where the housing stock does most of the talking: terraced cottages and a scattering of semis and detached homes, nearly all bought outright as freeholds, with no new-build estates muscling in. There's no pretence about it being a commuter dormitory with a high street of coffee shops — this is a small, settled village where the average resident is in their forties and the pace is set by the school run and the surrounding Test Valley countryside rather than by any retail strip.
The practical picture here is thin but telling. There's one school, Shipton Bellinger Primary, a community school with 144 pupils — no Ofsted rating is logged, so you'd want to ask around locally rather than rely on a letter grade. Transport is where the village quietly over-delivers: ten stops serve a population of under a hundred, and the area's connectivity grade sits at a middling C while its transport grade scores a strong A, suggesting the bus and road links out are better than the broadband is in — worth checking actual fibre coverage street by street, since just over half the village has full fibre. Housing is markedly cheaper than the immediate district: a median price here runs about a fifth below the Test Valley figure, and well under the regional average too, so a For Sale board on one of these terraces represents relative affordability in a pricier corner of the South East, not a bargain-basement one.