Walcot East
Suburb · 3,170 residents
48Fair
Fair · better than 1 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Food & drink scores 35, below the typical 60
- Health scores 36, below the typical 60
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The area
Around Walcot East
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Is Walcot East a good place to live?
Walcot East scores 48/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is infrastructure (69).
It scores lowest on food & drink (35) and health (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Walcot East in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Walcot East
Terraced and semi-detached streets dominate here, the kind of ex-council and post-war housing stock that Swindon built plenty of, with the odd flat conversion breaking up the run. It's not a place that performs for visitors — there's no obvious café strip or landmark pub doing the talking — it's a working suburb where people get on with things, median age a shade under 38, which tracks younger than both the regional and national norms.
The practical picture is mixed in an interesting way. Schools carry real weight: Mountford Manor Primary and Holy Cross Catholic Primary are both rated Good, and St Joseph's Catholic College takes pupils through secondary with a progress 8 score of 0.37, comfortably positive. Connectivity and transport both grade strongly too, with 23 local stops and full fibre reaching 91% of premises, so working from home or commuting into central Swindon are both realistic. Housing is where the maths gets interesting: a median price of £222,500 sits well below the national £281,000 and even the regional £305,000, and semi-detached homes here actually sell for more than the national semi-detached median — £301,250 against £273,000 — while flats undercut the national flat price by a wide margin. A freehold, semi-detached board on this street is telling you it's a family-sized house at a discount to what the same bricks would cost a few miles up the road.
Green space is modest — six pockets totalling just over four hectares, well under the density most of the South West enjoys — so this isn't an area built around a big park anchoring weekend life. What stands out instead is the gap between the area's overall B grade and its D+ scores for health and nightlife. Income sits in the bottom national decile even though the wider deprivation measure (decile 4) isn't as stark, which tells you money is tight for a good number of households even where the streets themselves aren't struggling. Crime runs markedly higher than the Swindon-wide rate, with violence and anti-social behaviour together accounting for well over half of recorded incidents, though the trend itself is flat rather than worsening — this is a steady state, not a place sliding backwards.