St George's Hill
Suburb · 138 residents
76Very 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
- Environment scores 86, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 65 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Schools scores 77, well above the typical 60
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 39, where 60 is typical
- Road noise reaches 82% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around St George's Hill
Map outline: Part of an official built-up area
Is St George's Hill a good place to live?
St George's Hill scores 76/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (86) and safety (79).
It scores lowest on affordability (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for St George's Hill in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of St George's Hill
Gates, gravel drives, and detached houses set back far enough that you can't see the front door from the road — that's the visual language of St George's Hill before you've read a single number about it. It's the kind of place where the cars in the driveways tell you more than any estate agent's window ever could, and where the quiet is the point, not an accident.
The practical picture here is unusual because so much of ordinary life is privately arranged. The sample schools that show up locally — Feltonfleet, Notre Dame Preparatory, and Notre Dame School — are all independent, which tells you something about how families here approach education: not via catchment anxiety over the nearest state Outstanding primary, but via fees and a school run that's part of the package. With a median age pushing 49, this isn't an area geared around young commuting professionals; it reads more like a place people move to once they've already made their money and want space to enjoy it, with four transport stops locally standing in for a transport network rather than a hub — this is a driving estate before it's a walking or a rail one.
The property market says the rest. Every recorded sale here is freehold, the dominant type is detached, and the median price sits north of a million pounds — a figure so far above the regional and national medians that comparisons almost stop being useful. Even against Elmbridge, itself one of the pricier districts in the country, homes here still command a premium of roughly 85%. A For Sale board on one of these roads is not advertising a starter home or even a comfortable upsize; it's signalling entry into a specific, gated tier of the property market, and the tiny sample size of recorded sales only underlines how rarely anything here actually changes hands. Green space per head regionally runs generous, and on an estate built around mature planting and private grounds, that feeling of space is baked into the streets themselves rather than confined to a park you have to travel to.