Swan Valley
Place · 171 residents
60Good
Good
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Property market scores 74, well above the typical 60
- 94% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 14% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 99% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Swan Valley
Map outline: Part of an official built-up area
Is Swan Valley a good place to live?
Swan Valley scores 60/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for property market (74) and infrastructure (71).
It scores lowest on health (18).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Swan Valley in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Swan Valley
Swan Valley reads as a small, settled pocket rather than a district with a high street of its own — detached and semi-detached houses on quiet roads, the kind of place where a for-sale board tends to say freehold and mean it. With a population barely into the hundreds and density well below the regional average, this isn't somewhere you stumble into; it's somewhere you drive to, deliberately, because you've already decided you want the space.
The property picture backs that up: detached homes dominate the recent sales, freehold is the norm rather than the exception, and at a median around £285,000 it sits almost exactly level with West Northamptonshire as a whole — no premium, no discount, just the going rate for the area. Connectivity is a genuine strength here, with full-fibre coverage above 93% putting it well ahead of most of the country, which matters if you're weighing up working from home against a longer commute. Public transport is thinner on the ground — three stops serve the area, and there's no rail station drawing the eye — so this reads as a driving household's postcode rather than a platform-and-season-ticket one. Schools score solidly in the B+ band, consistent with a place families settle into rather than pass through, and a median age of 40.6 suggests exactly that: established households, not a churn of renters.
Green space and hectares-per-head sit close to both the regional and national norms, so there's breathing room without this being a rural outlier, and the overall grade pattern — A for housing, A for connectivity, B+ across affordability, transport, safety, schools and nightlife — paints a picture of quiet consistency. The one grade that breaks that pattern is health, at C+, worth noting if local services matter to you, alongside a crime rate that on paper runs well above the parent authority's average — though with only 32 recorded incidents across a small population, a handful of cases can swing that percentage sharply, and violence/anti-social behaviour lead the breakdown much as they do in most similar-sized areas. The trend itself is flat, not worsening.