Sutton Scotney
Village · 850 residents
67Good
Good · better than 7 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: 71 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Environment scores 72, well above the typical 60
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- Infrastructure scores 26, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Sutton Scotney
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Sutton Scotney a good place to live?
Sutton Scotney scores 67/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (76) and environment (72).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (26).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Sutton Scotney in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Sutton Scotney
Sutton Scotney is the kind of place where the houses do the talking: detached, brick, set back enough that you're not reading your neighbour's post. Four sales recorded recently, three of them detached, every single one freehold, and a median price around £560,000 tells you what sort of board goes up outside these homes — not a flat, not a leasehold flip, but a family house bought outright and kept.
There's no rail station listed for the village itself, so if commuting by train matters to you, that's a question worth answering before you fall for the rest of it; what you do get is six transport stops and roads that clearly work well enough to earn the area an A for transport despite the D+ on connectivity — broadband here, with only 44.8% on full fibre, lags the picture on the ground. The median age of 47.5, well above the national 40.4, points to a settled population rather than a transient one, and the school grade of B suggests solid rather than exceptional options if you're moving with children.
Crime is genuinely low in absolute terms — four incidents in the past year is a rounding error compared with most places this analysis covers — though the breakdown is worth a glance: a quarter of local crime sits under violence and sexual offences and another quarter under other theft, categories that sound alarming until you remember the base number is tiny. The safety grade (A) and the flat trend back that up; this isn't a place getting rougher, it's a place where very little happens either way. Green space is modest — five plots totalling 5.37 hectares — but the environment grade of A suggests what's there is valued and well kept, and with a population this small, you're not fighting crowds for it.