Wolston
Village · 2,039 residents
78Very good
Very good · better than 9 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: 42 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 1 GP practice within a short walk
- Environment scores 73, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 10% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 32, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Wolston
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Wolston a good place to live?
Wolston scores 78/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (83) and health (78).
It scores lowest on food & drink (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Wolston in West Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Wolston
Wolston sits well back from any dual carriageway buzz — a scatter of brick cottages and modern infill around a village core, the kind of place where a population in the low hundreds means you'll recognise cars before you recognise faces. There's no rail station or big retail pull here; what you see is what you get, and what you get is quiet.
That quiet is backed by the numbers rather than just the atmosphere: an overall grade that sits well above the national average, with safety and health both rated as strongly as anywhere gets rated. Crime is genuinely low in absolute terms, though violence and sexual offences make up a disproportionate share of what little there is — worth noting, not worth dwelling on, since the raw count over a year is small. Schools pull the picture down a touch against that backdrop; Wolston St Margaret's CofE Primary is rated Good rather than Outstanding, and with only two schools in the area, choice is limited rather than absent. For a family, this reads as a village where you settle because of the setting, not because you're chasing a particular school gate.
Housing here is overwhelmingly freehold, semi-detached and detached stock, sold rather than let, and the median price sits almost exactly level with Rugby, the district it belongs to — this isn't a bargain corner of the borough, nor a premium one. Against the national figure it's comfortably mid-table, and against the region it tracks closely too; a For Sale board on one of these streets is advertising a settled, owner-occupied street rather than a churn of rentals. With income and deprivation deciles sitting squarely in the middle of the national spread, this is neither a hard-up village nor a wealthy enclave — just comfortably average, which is its own kind of reassurance.