Upton
Village · 5,741 residents
53Fair
Fair · better than 1 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
- Affordability scores 74, well above the typical 60
- 57% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 25, below the typical 60
- Health scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Upton
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Upton a good place to live?
Upton scores 53/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (74) and environment (72).
It scores lowest on food & drink (25) and health (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Upton in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Upton
Upton is streets of semis and a scatter of detached houses, the kind of village where the housing stock looks more like a suburb than a rural postcard — pebble-dashed 1970s builds sitting alongside newer infill, and almost nobody renting. If you're picturing thatched cottages, look elsewhere; this is ex-mining Yorkshire, settled and unpretentious, with a population under two thousand packed in more densely than you'd expect for a village of this size.
The numbers tell an affordability story before anything else. A median house price around £149,000 is roughly 12% cheaper than the Wakefield average and sits nowhere near the national median of £281,000 — this is a place where a semi-detached (the dominant type, and almost all freehold) goes for £168,750 against a national comparable of £273,000. That gap is the headline: Upton is genuinely inexpensive by national standards, which is why the affordability grade comes out at the top of the scale. Schooling is thinner on the ground — Upton Primary School is the one named option in the village itself, a large community school of over 400 pupils, with Badsworth CE Junior and Infant School close by across the parish boundary. Neither has a published Ofsted rating in this data, so judge the school by reputation and a visit rather than a grade. Connectivity, by contrast, is strong on paper — full fibre reaches the large majority of homes here, which matters if you're working from the spare room rather than commuting.