Warkton
Village · 124 residents
52Fair
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 71, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 71, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 17, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Warkton
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Warkton a good place to live?
Warkton scores 52/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (71) and transport (71).
It scores lowest on health (17) and food & drink (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Warkton in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Warkton
Warkton reads as a handful of stone cottages and a scatter of newer infill, the kind of place where you notice a car passing rather than traffic. With a population barely over two hundred and a density a fraction of the national average, this is low-key rural Northamptonshire — the sort of village where everyone's median age sits a full decade above the country's, and where that tells you as much about the place as any description of the buildings.
The property market here is small and tightly patterned: eighteen sales is the whole sample, dominated by semi-detached homes held outright as freehold, with a median price of £312,500 that sits comfortably above both the regional and national medians. That's a village where a For Sale board means a genuine, infrequent event rather than a weekly occurrence — turnover is a little higher than the national norm, but the stock itself barely changes hands. Against North Northamptonshire as a whole, Warkton commands a price premium of nearly 28%, which places it among the more comfortable corners of the unitary authority even though its wider deprivation ranking is solidly mid-table rather than exceptional. Schooling in the area leans towards small, church-founded primaries — Cranford CofE Primary carries a Good Ofsted rating, and the overall schools grade nudges above the area's general B+ pattern, suggesting families who do settle here are reasonably well served despite the village itself having no secondary provision to speak of.