Standlake
Village · 938 residents
73Very good
Very good · better than 9 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: 31 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 72, well above the typical 60
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- Flood risk: 64% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Health scores 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Standlake
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Standlake a good place to live?
Standlake scores 73/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (90) and transport (72).
It scores lowest on health (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Standlake in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Standlake
Standlake reads as detached-house-and-paddock country: big plots, gravel drives, the kind of village where a For Sale board almost always says "detached, freehold" and rarely says anything else. Five recent sales, four of them detached, all freehold — this is a place people buy into rather than pass through, and they tend to stay, given a median age over fifty.
The numbers back up that first impression rather than complicate it. A median sale price of a million pounds, against a national median of £281,000 and a regional one of £367,500, puts Standlake well above even West Oxfordshire's own average — around 60% higher than the wider district. That's not a village stretching for its neighbours' prices; it's one sitting comfortably above them, in the top 5% of the country on price. Council tax band D costs are broadly in line with the national figure, which will feel like the one unremarkable line on an otherwise expensive spreadsheet. Standlake Church of England Primary, rated Good, is the anchor school for anyone with young children, though with only two schools in the area and one of them a specialist non-maintained setting (Mulberry Bush School), this isn't a place with a wide choice of secondaries on the doorstep — families here are often already committed to driving or busing further afield.
Safety is where Standlake quietly separates itself from the pack: an A+ grade against an overall A, in a place where most other scores — schools, health, connectivity, nightlife — sit a notch lower in the solid B-plus range. Seven recorded crimes in the past year is a small enough number that individual incidents move the percentages a lot, and violence and sexual offences make up the largest share, but the scale here is village-scale, not town-scale. Full-fibre broadband reaches a large majority of properties, which matters more than it once did now that plenty of Standlake's residents likely work from home some of the week rather than commuting daily. There's no rail station listed for the village itself, so this is a car-based life, or one built around a short drive to catch a train elsewhere.