Thurlaston
Village · 202 residents
71Very good
Very good · better than 8 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Affordability scores 75, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 35 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Food & drink scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Thurlaston a good place to live?
Thurlaston scores 71/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (75) and safety (74).
It scores lowest on food & drink (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Thurlaston in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Thurlaston
Thurlaston is the kind of place you'd drive through and only notice if you were looking for it — a scatter of detached houses off a lane near Rugby, with the fields doing most of the talking. There's no high street to speak of here, no run of shops or cafés; this is a village in the older sense, where the built environment gives way quickly to green space and the loudest thing on a given afternoon is probably a tractor.
The numbers back up that impression of quiet. With a population in the twenties and a median age pushing 57, this isn't a place cycling through young families or renters — it's settled, long-term, and skews older than both the regional and national picture by some margin. Detached houses dominate what little turns over on the market, nearly all of it freehold, and at a median price of £420,000 — comfortably above Rugby district's typical figure and well past the national median — a for-sale board here means a substantial family house, not a starter home. Schooling is thin on the ground within the village itself; the one sampled school, Dunchurch Boughton Church of England Junior Academy, sits close by, though there's no Ofsted rating attached to judge it against. Anyone commuting will be doing so by car — there's a single bus stop logged and no rail station in the picture, so this only works if driving is part of your daily rhythm.
Green space is really the point of living here rather than a weekend add-on — the surrounding countryside is the amenity, even if there isn't a named park to walk to and the formal green-space count on record is minimal. There's no meaningful restaurant or pub scene logged in the data, which tracks with the nightlife grade sitting well below everything else on the scorecard — a mild C+ against a run of As and B+s elsewhere. That's the one grade out of step with the rest, and it tells you plainly what this village isn't: it's not a place for evenings out on foot. Healthcare and connectivity read as solid rather than exceptional, and broadband is in good shape, with the great majority of properties able to get full-fibre.