Station Estate
Suburb · 356 residents
59Good
Good · better than 5 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: 98 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 25% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Road noise reaches 41% of the area
- Health scores 16, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Station Estate
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Station Estate a good place to live?
Station Estate scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (74).
It scores lowest on health (16).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Station Estate in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Station Estate
Station Estate has the look of a place that quietly worked out its own value some time ago and didn't feel the need to announce it — low-rise, well-kept, more parking bays than pavement clutter, and not much reason to pass through unless you live here. It's small, genuinely small, and that scale shapes everything else about it: this isn't a place with a high street identity so much as a residential pocket that borrows its buzz from elsewhere.
The commute story centres on Taplow Rail Station, and with a median age of 46 this reads less as a young-professional dormitory and more as a place people settle into once the school-run years are behind them or never really applied. St Nicolas' Church of England Combined School serves the immediate area for families who are here, though it's a modest single-school picture rather than a dense catchment map. Housing is dominated by flats sitting on freehold titles rather than the leasehold arrangement you'd expect with that property type nationally — an unusual combination that tells you something about how this pocket was built and sold, and it's part of why a For Sale board here reads as a safer, more straightforward purchase than the flat-buying norm. Prices sit meaningfully above the Buckinghamshire median, and against the national figures this area's flats alone are trading at nearly double the country's typical flat price — decile 9 territory on both income and deprivation measures, which puts it among the most comfortable postcodes going.