Windsor
Town · 32,093 residents
76Very good
Very good · better than 8 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- 68% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- 191 places to eat and drink
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 14% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Aircraft noise reaches 29% of the area
- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 39, where 60 is typical
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Windsor
Clewer Hill71Clewer Green71Clewer New TownClewer Village81Dedworth71Park Corner66Vale Estate70Windsor Castle86Cranbourne76Tithe Barn67Old Windsor80Dorney63
See all 16 in the guide ↓Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Windsor a good place to live?
Windsor scores 76/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (88) and food & drink (86).
It scores lowest on affordability (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Windsor in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Windsor
Walk the streets behind the castle walls and you get the two Windsors at once: the tourist-facing town of tea rooms and coach parties, and the residential grid of Victorian terraces and interwar semis where people actually live. It's a town that dresses up for visitors but goes about its own business — school runs, dog walks along the Thames, a pint after work — with the sort of quiet confidence that comes from sitting comfortably among the less deprived parts of England.
The practical maths is where the trade-offs sharpen. At around £495k the median sale sits fractionally below the wider Windsor and Maidenhead figure but well above the South East median, and terraced houses — the dominant stock here — go for over £510k against a national terrace median closer to £230k. That's the Windsor premium, and it's paid mostly in postcode and connection: two stations, Windsor & Eton Central and Windsor & Eton Riverside, put you on trains toward London without needing to drive to a park-and-ride. Schooling is a mixed picture rather than a uniformly strong one — St Edward's Royal Free Ecumenical Middle School and Hilltop First both sit at Good, while Windsor Girls' currently rates Requires Improvement, so the secondary decision matters and parents tend to shop carefully between here, Eton and the surrounding villages. Housing tenure leans firmly freehold, which tells you the flats above the shops are the minority; most of what changes hands is a house with its own front door.