Wellesbourne
Village · 6,895 residents
74Very good
Very good · better than 9 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: 48 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Wellesbourne
CharlecoteMountford Close, WellesbourneWellesbourne, Hastings RoadWellesbourne, Mountford CloseHastings Road, WellesbourneHampton Lucy63WaltonHunscote LaneWasperton56Newbold PaceyMoreton Morrell71Goldicote
See all 13 in the guide ↓Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Wellesbourne a good place to live?
Wellesbourne scores 74/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Wellesbourne in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Wellesbourne
Wellesbourne looks like what it is: a Warwickshire village that's grown a bit beyond its old core, with detached houses on quiet closes, a working high street rather than a decorative one, and enough traffic through it that you notice this isn't a cul-de-sac backwater but a proper village people commute out of. The age profile tells you plenty before you've walked the length of it — median age pushing 49 against a national figure of 40, so this is a place of settled households, not shared houses or first-time-buyer flats.
There's no rail station in the picture here, so this is a driving village rather than a commuting one in the season-ticket sense — the 46 transport stops suggest bus links rather than trains, and you'd want to check road journey times to Stratford-upon-Avon or Warwick before assuming an easy office commute. On schooling, the one that shows up clearly is Wellesbourne CofE Primary, a sizeable academy with 467 pupils, though its Ofsted rating isn't listed here; Hampton Lucy CofE Primary, smaller and rated Requires Improvement, is also in the mix, so this isn't an area where you can assume every local school carries a top grade — worth a visit rather than an assumption. On property, the pattern is straightforward: detached freehold houses dominate the sales here, 25 of the 60 recent sales, with semi-detached and terraced making up most of the rest and almost nothing leasehold. A For Sale board here is overwhelmingly saying "family house, owned outright by the seller," and at a median of £326,000 you're sitting close to the national median but about 8% below the wider Stratford-on-Avon district figure — this is relatively affordable ground within its own patch, even if it's pricier than much of the country at large.