Wicor
Suburb · 1,758 residents
65Good
Good · better than 7 in 10 suburbs
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: 59 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Property market scores 75, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 72, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 46% of the area
- Food & drink scores 23, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Wicor
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Wicor a good place to live?
Wicor scores 65/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (81) and property market (75).
It scores lowest on food & drink (23).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Wicor in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Wicor
Wicor is the kind of suburb where semi-detached houses sit behind neat privet hedges and the traffic noise is mostly lawnmowers. It's tucked into the Fareham peninsula, and the age profile gives it away before you've read a single house price: a median age of 48.5, well above the national 40.4, tells you this is a settled, rather than transient, community — people move here and stay, not a place full of shared houses or revolving lets.
That stability shows up in the numbers around it. Fareham's benchmark price sits at £345,000, and Wicor comes in a touch below that at £342,500 — so a for-sale board here is not a status statement, it's a fairly ordinary semi-detached freehold, which is exactly what dominates the local market. Freehold outnumbers leasehold five to one in recent sales, terraced and semi-detached houses do the bulk of the trade, and flats are almost incidental. Schooling has a similar steady, unspectacular shape: Wicor Primary serves as the local option, while Red Barn Community Primary carries an Outstanding rating and Cams Hill School covers secondary with a solid if unremarkable Good rating. None of this is flashy, but it's the kind of school run a parent doesn't lie awake worrying about.
Where Wicor stands out is safety, and it's worth sitting with that for a moment because it cuts against the area's otherwise middling profile — an A-grade safety score paired with a C for health is the one pattern worth noticing here. Violence and sexual offences make up nearly half of recorded crime, which sounds alarming until you see the raw scale: this is a low-crime suburb overall, sitting in the top decile nationally for deprivation (a 9 out of 10, meaning very little), and the safety trend is flat rather than worsening. The health grade lagging behind is the quieter signal — not a crisis, but not the area's strong suit either, and worth checking on if healthcare access matters to you day to day.