St Giles's Hill
Suburb · 43 residents
69Good
Good · better than 8 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: 47 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Schools scores 77, well above the typical 60
- 100% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Road noise reaches 84% of the area
- Health scores 22, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around St Giles's Hill
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is St Giles's Hill a good place to live?
St Giles's Hill scores 69/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (78) and schools (77).
It scores lowest on health (22).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for St Giles's Hill in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of St Giles's Hill
Terraced Victorian brick and steep pavements set the tone here — this is a hillside pocket of Winchester where the houses climb the slope and the streets feel tightly packed despite how few people actually live on them. It reads as settled and slightly hidden, the sort of place you find because you already know it's there, not because you passed through on the way to somewhere else.
Winchester itself sits at the centre of daily life rather than any big transport interchange, and that shapes who's here: the median age of early forties points to established households rather than young sharers, and the terraced housing stock — mostly freehold, with a scattering of flats and semis — suggests people who bought in some years back and have no pressing reason to move. A median price of £380,000 sits comfortably below Winchester district's £450,000 benchmark, so you're paying a discount for the hill and the walk-up, not a premium. All Saints Church of England Primary School serves the immediate area; it's not Ofsted-rated in the data to hand, but its presence as a voluntary controlled village-style primary fits the settled, family-through-the-decades character of the streets around it.
The overall picture leans distinctly favourable — schools and safety both grade at the top of the scale, and safety in particular stands out given the area logs only a couple of recorded incidents across the year, with violence and sexual offences making up the bulk of that small number and everything else barely registering. That's a flat trend, not a falling one, but flat from an already-low base is exactly what you want to see. Housing and environment grades sit strongly too, while affordability and connectivity come in more middling — full-fibre coverage sits under half, so broadband speed may vary street to street, and at decile 7 for deprivation this is a comfortably-off area without being the most exclusive corner of the district. Income decile 4 is the quiet outlier in an otherwise high-grade constellation: households here aren't necessarily high earners, they've likely just been here a long time.