Thornhill
Neighbourhood · 14,630 residents
46Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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
- 95% of homes can get full-fibre broadband
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- Road noise reaches 52% of the area
- Food & drink scores 21, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Thornhill
Map outline: Approximate — electoral ward boundary, used as the nearest surveyed shape
Is Thornhill a good place to live?
Thornhill scores 46/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for infrastructure (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (21).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Thornhill in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Thornhill
Terraced streets, tight and close-packed, with a density that feels more inner-city than suburb — Thornhill's population is squeezed into a footprint that runs at more than double the national average crowding, and the housing stock tells the same story: rows of two-up two-downs rather than anything detached or new-built.
The numbers around income and deprivation put this at the very bottom of the national scale, which shapes almost everything else here. House prices sit below both the national and regional medians, and are close to flat on the year, so this isn't a market anyone's pricing in hope for. A typical sale is a freehold terrace going for around a quarter of what you'd need in the wider South East for the same type of home — genuinely one of the more affordable corners of the region, and the affordability grade agrees with that. But flats are the outlier worth noting: they're changing hands for roughly half the national median for a flat, which suggests a two-tier local market where houses hold value and flats don't. Connectivity is solid, with full fibre reaching the vast majority of homes, and the transport grade is respectable even without a rail station named for the immediate area.
Schools are the soft spot. There's just one school captured for the area itself, Thornhill Primary, rated Requires Improvement — not a name that reassures a family scanning options, and it drags the overall schools grade down even though nearby Kanes Hill and Hightown primaries carry Good ratings. If schooling is your priority, this is the detail to sit with rather than skip past.