Upper Beeding
Village · 2,695 residents
62Good
Good · better than 4 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: 29 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 23% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 25, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Upper Beeding
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Upper Beeding a good place to live?
Upper Beeding scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (92).
It scores lowest on food & drink (25) and health (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Upper Beeding in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Upper Beeding
Upper Beeding sits under the shoulder of the South Downs on the edge of the Adur valley, and it looks the part: detached houses with room to breathe, a scatter of terraces and semis, the kind of village high street where you'd struggle to find a queue for anything. It's a settled place rather than a transient one — the median age here is comfortably above the national figure, and the streets have that unhurried, everybody's-been-here-a-while feel that comes with it.
The practical picture is where it gets interesting. There's one school in the immediate data, Upper Beeding Primary, a community school with just over 300 pupils — no Ofsted rating is logged for it here, so judge that one on a visit rather than a grade. Housing leans heavily towards detached freehold homes, all of the sampled sales in outright ownership, and a For Sale board on this street is telling you "family house, staying put" rather than "buy-to-let flat, quick turnaround." Prices sit close to the national median but noticeably below the wider South East regional average, and a touch cheaper than the Horsham district it belongs to — decent value for a downland village, though rents here still run ahead of the national norm, which matters if you're renting rather than buying. Detached houses in particular carry a real premium over the national detached price, so the "affordable village" story only stretches so far once you're looking at the bigger houses.