Spitalhatch
Suburb · 17 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: 59 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
- Health scores 11, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 18, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Spitalhatch a good place to live?
Spitalhatch scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (86).
It scores lowest on health (11) and food & drink (18).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Spitalhatch in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Spitalhatch
Spitalhatch is the kind of place where the streets are mostly semi-detached houses on quiet plots, and where you sense — rather than see — that most people have been here a while. With a median age around 48 and a population barely into the low double figures for this pocket of East Hampshire, it reads as settled rather than transient: a spot for people who've already done the moving-around phase of life.
The housing picture and the money picture tell the same story. This is a decile 10 area for deprivation and decile 9 for income — about as comfortable as it gets nationally — and the property market backs that up without shouting about it. Semi-detached houses dominate the sales here, nearly all freehold, with a median price of £380,000 that actually sits a touch below the wider East Hampshire figure (about 5% cheaper than the district as a whole), even though it's well above the national median. A For Sale board here is less "opportunity" and more "steady, established, no surprises" — new-build stock is essentially non-existent, which suits a street where people buy in and stay.
Green space runs a little under the regional average per head, though at this population size that's more a statistical footnote than a lived shortage. On schooling, Wootey Infant and Wootey Junior serve the immediate area as community primaries — solid, unpretentious options rather than headline Outstanding names, which fits a B grade for schools that sits mid-table rather than exceptional. Safety is where Spitalhatch quietly stands out: an A+ grade against an otherwise strong-but-normal set of scores (transport B+, connectivity B, health B) is the one figure worth pausing on. Total recorded crime here is minimal, and even though violence and sexual offences make up the largest share of what little there is, the raw numbers are small enough that the trend reads flat rather than alarming — this isn't a place where you'll feel on edge walking home.