Tollerton
Village · 842 residents
73Very good
Very good · better than 9 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: 12 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 75, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 71, well above the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Tollerton
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Tollerton a good place to live?
Tollerton scores 73/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (87) and affordability (75).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Tollerton in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Tollerton
Tollerton is the kind of place where the houses do the talking — detached, set back, mostly freehold, with barely a terrace in sight. There's no high street rush here; this is a village of just over five hundred people, spread thinly across the land, where the median resident is pushing 51 and has likely been here a while. It attracts people who've already done the striving and now want the quiet.
The practical picture is straightforward rather than glamorous. There's no rail station in the immediate picture, so this isn't one for the daily commuter counting minutes to the platform, but the roads and stops (ten of them) suggest a place built around driving rather than trains. Schooling has a genuine bright spot: Outwood Primary Academy Alne carries an Outstanding rating, a solid draw for anyone with young children even though most of Tollerton's residents are well past the school run. Housing here is overwhelmingly detached and freehold — a For Sale board on this street is almost certainly announcing a family house with land around it, not a starter flat, and at a median price around £342,500 you're paying roughly 32% more than the North Yorkshire average to be here.
Green space is modest in raw hectares but there are six pockets of it woven through the village, enough for a dog walk or a Saturday potter without needing to drive somewhere else for air. This isn't a place with a restaurant scene or a nightlife pull — the grades hint at reasonable but unremarkable evening options — so eating out tends to mean a pub rather than a strip of choices. What stands out instead is safety: crime sits low in absolute terms, and even though half of the recorded incidents fall under violence and sexual offences, the overall rate runs about 4% below the North Yorkshire county average, and the trend has been flat rather than worsening. Health outcomes score strongly too, which tracks with an older, settled population that tends to look after itself. Broadband is solid, with full fibre reaching the large majority of homes — useful if working from that detached house is part of the plan.