Weston-on-the-Green
Village · 410 residents
59Good
Good · better than 3 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: 76 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
- Health scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Weston-on-the-Green
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Weston-on-the-Green a good place to live?
Weston-on-the-Green scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (71).
It scores lowest on health (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Weston-on-the-Green in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Weston-on-the-Green
Weston-on-the-Green reads as stone-and-hedgerow Oxfordshire: detached houses set back from the road, cars rather than buses in the driveways, and a population so small that the whole village barely fills a couple of streets. This is not a place that announces itself with a parade of shops — it's the kind of village people drive through rather than to, unless they already live here.
The numbers behind that impression tell a consistent story of comfort. Weston sits in the eighth decile for deprivation and the ninth for income, which puts it among the better-off villages nationally, and the property market backs that up hard — recent sales cluster around detached freehold homes with a median price of £544,000, some 57% above the wider Cherwell district average. There's no mixed tenure here to speak of, no flats, no new-build estate; a for-sale board in Weston is almost always advertising a freehold family house, not a starter home. Commuting is a car-based affair rather than a rail one — there's no station in the data for this village — so this suits someone who has already arranged their life around driving, not someone chasing a fast line into London. On schooling, the sample is thin, but Kirtlington Church of England Primary, a small voluntary-aided school of just over a hundred pupils, is the kind of place that anchors a young family's decision to move somewhere like this rather than a market town.