Winford
Town · 2,285 residents
51Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 67 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 71, 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
- Health scores 15, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Winford
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Winford a good place to live?
Winford scores 51/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (71) and transport (71).
It scores lowest on health (15).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Winford in South West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Winford
Winford reads as detached houses behind hedges, gravel drives, and not much passing traffic — the kind of village where the cars parked outside are newer than the cottages they belong to. It attracts an older, settled crowd rather than a young rental market: the median age sits around 48, well above the national figure, and with only seventeen sales logged recently and every one of them freehold, this isn't a place people pass through on short leases. They buy in and stay.
There's no rail station in the village itself, so the practical commute here is by road, and that shapes who lives here as much as anything else: households established enough not to need a station on the doorstep, with the income decile (8 out of 10) backing that up. Schooling is thin on the ground in the most literal sense — Winford has one school of its own, the Church of England Primary, alongside Dundry Church of England Primary rated Good a little further out. That's a village-school offer, not a market-town one, and parents weighing this move should treat secondary schooling as a question to answer before committing, not after. Housing itself is unambiguous: detached homes dominate, freehold throughout, and a median sale price of £475,000 against a national detached median of £420,000 tells you a For Sale board here is selling space and privacy, not a bargain. Against North Somerset as a whole, prices run about 52% higher, so this is one of the county's pricier corners despite being a small village rather than a town.