Yateley
Town · 14,509 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
- 81% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 49 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 16% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Food & drink scores 22, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Yateley
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Yateley a good place to live?
Yateley scores 76/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (91) and safety (88).
It scores lowest on food & drink (22).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Yateley in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Yateley
Yateley reads as a town built around hedgerow-lined roads and detached houses with driveways rather than a high street you'd linger on — the kind of place where the car park outside the Co-op does more social work than any café strip. It attracts people who've already decided they want space and quiet over proximity to a city centre, and the streets back that up: wide verges, low-rise housing, not much passing trade.
There's no rail station in the picture here, which tells you something important before anything else does — this is a driving town, and the C+ transport grade reflects a reasonable bus network (around 30 stops) rather than any rail link. Schools, on the other hand, are a genuine strength: Yateley School serves over 1,300 secondary pupils, Westfields Junior School carries a "Good" Ofsted rating, and the broader schools grade sits at the top of the scale. Housing leans heavily towards family stock — the sales data shows terraced and semi-detached homes dominating, nearly all freehold, with a median price around £432,500 that puts Yateley a touch above its parent authority, Bracknell Forest. A detached house here typically sells for £630,000 against a national median nearer £420,000 for the same type, which tells you who the market is built for: households trading commute convenience for a garden and a school catchment.
Green space is genuinely part of daily life rather than a brochure line — 18 separate spaces covering close to 47 hectares for a town of 11,400 people, well above the national rate per head. That shapes the weekend rhythm more than any restaurant count could: dog walks, playing fields, children's sport, rather than a bar scene. The nightlife grade is honestly weak, a D+ sitting oddly against nearly everything else being strong, and that's the quiet trade-off here — this is not a town for an evening out, and anyone hoping for one should look elsewhere nearby. Health provision scores respectably (a B), and the area's income and deprivation deciles both sit near the top nationally, meaning Yateley is among the more comfortable, better-off corners of the South East without being exceptional on that score.