Small Dole
Village · 804 residents
63Good
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: 57 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 74, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 33, below the typical 60
- Health scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Small Dole
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Small Dole a good place to live?
Small Dole scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (82) and transport (74).
It scores lowest on food & drink (33) and health (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Small Dole in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Small Dole
Detached houses behind low brick walls, cars parked on gravel drives, the kind of quiet that comes from a place with under three hundred people in it. Small Dole doesn't have a high street to speak of, and it doesn't try to — this is a village you drive through slowly, not one you window-shop in.
The numbers back up what you'd guess from the streetscape: a median age pushing 59 against a national figure closer to 40, which tells you this is a settled, older population rather than a young-family churn. Housing here is dominated by detached freehold homes, and the local median for a detached sale sits well above the national detached average — this is a place where a For Sale board means a proper family house on its own plot, not a new-build estate. Prices run a little above the wider Horsham district itself, which is itself one of the more comfortable corners of the South East, and the village sits in the eighth income and deprivation decile nationally, so this is solidly among the better-off end of things rather than the very top.
Green space is tight rather than expansive — three plots totalling just over two hectares, so this isn't a village built around sprawling parkland, more the kind of place where gardens do the work that public space might elsewhere. Eating out and entertainment aren't really the story here, and the grades reflect that quietly rather than loudly: connectivity and health both land at a solid, unremarkable "above average," while transport and safety are graded higher — an A for transport despite there being no rail station listed for the village itself, which suggests road links and bus stops carry the weight rather than trains. That A for safety sits oddly against a crime trend marked as worsening, and against violence and sexual offences making up close to a third of the reported incidents over the past year, albeit off a small base of twenty crimes total. That's the one grade worth sitting with: a village that reads as safe in character but where the direction of travel on crime has been heading the wrong way, so it's worth watching rather than dismissing.