Tilstock
Village · 212 residents
50Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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: 61 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Tilstock a good place to live?
Tilstock scores 50/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (80).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Tilstock in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Tilstock
Tilstock is the kind of place where a For Sale board means a detached house on a plot, not a terrace in a row — the sample of recent sales here is almost entirely detached, entirely freehold, and there isn't a new-build in sight. That tells you most of what you need to know about the streetscape before you've even driven through: scattered farmhouses and family-sized homes rather than close-packed estates, with a population so small and thinly spread that it barely registers a density figure at all against the national average.
The one school in the village, Tilstock CofE Primary and Nursery, is rated Good and takes just over a hundred pupils, which is the kind of size where the head knows every child's name — but it's also the only school in the immediate frame, so secondary-age children will be travelling out. There's no rail station named for this village either, which fits the wider picture: a median age approaching 52 suggests a place people settle into rather than commute from, and the connectivity grade sits respectably mid-table rather than strong. If you need a fast, reliable train link on your doorstep, this isn't that place; if your working life is already rural or remote, it fits better.
Green space is present but modest — four small plots rather than sweeping parkland — and there's nothing in the way of a named pub or restaurant cluster here, so eating out or a proper weekend circuit means heading beyond the village boundary. That's the trade-off with anywhere this small: the quiet is real, but so is the need for a car to reach most day-to-day life. What Tilstock does offer, and offers unusually well, is safety — the area's overall safety grade is the strongest mark in the whole profile, and while the crime rate reads as wildly elevated against Shropshire's average in percentage terms, the underlying count is a single figure over the year, so that percentage is really just the maths of a very small place rather than a lived reality of danger. Violence and anti-social behaviour make up the bulk of even that handful of incidents, and nothing here suggests a village with a crime problem.