Wildern
Suburb · 205 residents
62Good
Good · better than 6 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
- Safety scores 72, well above the typical 60
- 88% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 91% of the area
- Food & drink scores 30, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Wildern
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Wildern a good place to live?
Wildern scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (72) and environment (72).
It scores lowest on food & drink (30) and health (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Wildern in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Wildern
Detached houses on decent-sized plots, cars on the drive rather than the street, hedges kept neat — Wildern reads as a settled, comfortable corner of Eastleigh rather than anywhere with a high street of its own. It's small, quiet, and the sort of place people move to rather than through.
The numbers back up that first impression. This sits in the top decile nationally for both deprivation and income, which in plain terms means it's among the least deprived, best-off patches of the country you'll find on a map. Houses here trade at a premium to Eastleigh overall, and the pattern within that is telling: detached homes fetch more than the national going rate, semis comfortably more too, but flats actually sell for less than the national median — a sign that Wildern's flat stock is a minor, perhaps older, sideline to a market that's really built around freehold family houses. With a median age around 45 and a population under a few hundred, this reads as an established, empty-nesting sort of community more than a young commuter dormitory.
Safety is where Wildern separates itself most clearly — the area grades well above the national average here, and it holds that position steadily rather than swinging year to year. Shoplifting shows up as the single most common offence, which says more about a retail pull from somewhere nearby than about the residential streets themselves; violent and sexual offences make up the largest slice of recorded crime by count, in line with national patterns for how such crime gets categorised, but burglary and vehicle crime barely register. Schools score solidly rather than spectacularly, and connectivity and transport both sit at a respectable, unremarkable level — full-fibre broadband reaches a majority but not all of the area. The one grade that breaks the pattern is health, marked down against an otherwise strong scorecard, worth a closer look if local services matter to you. Nightlife scores modestly too, which will surprise no one looking at the streetscape — this isn't a place that keeps late hours.