Trench Wood
Suburb · 61 residents
56Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 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
- Environment scores 77, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 33 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Food & drink scores 14, below the typical 60
- Health scores 16, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Trench Wood
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Trench Wood a good place to live?
Trench Wood scores 56/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (77) and safety (75).
It scores lowest on food & drink (14) and health (16).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Trench Wood in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Trench Wood
Trench Wood reads as detached houses on wide plots, hedges trimmed with some care, and very little passing traffic — the kind of place where a builder's van parked outside is the day's main event. With barely 580 people spread across it, this is low-density living even by the standards of the South East, and the houses on show, mostly semi-detached and detached, freehold almost without exception, tell you this isn't a street in transition. It's already arrived.
The numbers back up that first impression. A decile 9 for deprivation and decile 8 for income put Trench Wood among the better-off pockets nationally, and the housing market follows suit: a median sale price of £499,000, with detached homes fetching £748,500 against a national detached average of £420,000. That's a 24.8% premium over the wider Tonbridge and Malling district itself, which is not a cheap area to begin with. For commuters, Hildenborough Rail Station anchors the area, and with a median age of 48.4 — well above the national 40.4 — this reads less as a young family's starter suburb and more as a place people move to once they're established, often with school-age or grown children rather than toddlers. St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Primary, rated Good, sits among the local options, though the absence of an Outstanding grade in the sample is worth noting if that matters to you.
Green space here comes from one substantial block rather than a scatter of pocket parks — just over 19 hectares serving a small population, which in practice means space without crowds. There's no named restaurant or high street venue in the picture, and that fits the character: this isn't a place you go out in, it's a place you come home to, with Tonbridge or Tunbridge Wells likely absorbing the dinner-out, cinema, and late-night end of life. The nightlife grade here is a C+, the one clearly average mark in an otherwise strong set of grades, and it's the quiet tell — everything else (an A for environment, A for safety, B+ for housing) points to a comfortable, well-kept suburb that simply isn't built for evenings out.