Soldiers Rise
Suburb · 2,348 residents
74Very good
Very good · better than 9 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
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- Food & drink scores 28, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Soldiers Rise
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Soldiers Rise a good place to live?
Soldiers Rise scores 74/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (94).
It scores lowest on food & drink (28).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Soldiers Rise in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Soldiers Rise
Detached houses behind hedges, gravel drives, the odd Range Rover pulled in at an angle — this is a corner of Wokingham borough where the streets feel spaced out rather than stacked up, and where the shopfronts you'd associate with a typical high street are simply thin on the ground. It reads as settled rather than sociable: a place people move to once, and stay.
The numbers behind the postcode confirm the impression. This sits in the top decile nationally for both deprivation and income, with a median house price north of £780,000 against a national figure well under half that — among the more comfortable pockets of the South East, even against a borough like Wokingham that's already well-off, with prices here running about 13% above the local benchmark. A median age of 49 tells you this isn't a starter-home estate; it's a place people trade up into and settle, and the school picture backs that up — Nine Mile Ride Primary and Saint Sebastians CofE Primary handle the local-age intake, while Ludgrove and Holme Grange sit alongside as independent options, the kind of cluster that shapes a family's decision to move here as much as any commute does. Housing is dominated by detached freehold stock, and a For Sale board on this street is overwhelmingly signalling long-term, owned, family-sized property rather than anything transient.
Green space is concentrated rather than plentiful — one substantial space of nearly 44 hectares gives room to walk a dog or let children run, even though the borough average suggests most areas nearby have more, smaller pockets rather than one big one. Full-fibre broadband reaches a strong majority of homes, useful if you're working from that home office rather than commuting daily. What's harder to find locally is nightlife or a dense restaurant scene — the grades make that plain, with connectivity and environment scoring strongly while nightlife lags, so evenings out mean driving rather than strolling. Healthcare access reads the same way: a noticeably weaker grade sitting oddly against everything else, the one out-of-pattern note in an otherwise comfortable profile, worth checking against your own GP or hospital needs before assuming it's a non-issue.