Is Blackwater, Frogmore & Minley a good place to live?
Safer than 86% of South East's neighbourhoods, prices down 1.6% in a year, 3 schools within 1.5 km, and a 10-minute walk to Blackwater.
Crime
24.6 crimes per 1,000 residents a yearsafer than 86% of South East's neighbourhoods
More crimeLess crime
Prices
£4,400 per m², down 1.6% in a yearpricier than 50% of South East's neighbourhoods
CheaperPricier
Schools
3 schools within 1.5 kmprimaries nearby stronger than in 80% of South East's neighbourhoods
WeakerStronger
Green space
Not published outside London yet
Commute
10 min walk to a stationBlackwater · a shorter walk than 91% of South East's neighbourhoods
Longer walkShorter
Ranks among South East's neighbourhoods. Crime: police.uk, 12 months to August 2026. Prices: HM Land Registry to August 2026, area price bands, never a home's value. Schools: DfE GIAS, Ofsted. Stations: walks along OpenStreetMap paths. How this is worked out
A postcode district is wider than the area. Close Knit doesn't host listings.
Sources
Price per square metre. Rolling 12-month median achieved price per square metre of standard market sales (Price Paid category A), using each home's EPC floor area.
HM Land Registry Price Paid + EPC · 2026-08
Areas with fewer than 20 qualifying sales in the 12 months fall back to their MSOA, then council.
Excludes repossessions, buy-to-let and company sales (category B) and 'other' property types.
Sales without an EPC floor area, under £20,000, or outside 15–1,000 m² or £500–£40,000/m² are excluded.
Land Registry registers sales with a lag of up to a few months, so the latest window is still filling.
Outside London, sales are placed in their postcode's area (ONSPD) and linked to EPC floor areas by address; before 2023 they show one value a year. London's figures come from its address-level build.
Standard sales only (Price Paid category A) of £10,000 or more; repossessions, company and buy-to-let transfers are left out.
Sales reach the register weeks to months after completion, so the newest months are incomplete.
£ per m² uses only sales whose home has an energy certificate with a floor area.
ONS Price Index of Private Rents: Source: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Council-wide: every neighbourhood in a council reads the council's rents.
Average (mean) monthly rent of new and existing tenancies; change is from the ONS index, which adjusts for the mix of homes let.
Official statistics in development: ONS may revise recent months.
No City of London figures are published.
Getting around
about 8 min to BlackwaterShorter walk than 91% of South EastOn map ↗
Typical walk from homes
10 min to a station · shorter than 91% of South East
24.6 / 1,000 · South East 81.4Safer than 86% of South EastOn map ↗
Top offences per 1,000 a year · Blackwater, Frogmore & MinleySouth East
Violence and sexual offences10.7South East ▼ 29.2
Shoplifting4.0South East ▼ 8.0
Other theft3.3South East ▼ 5.6
Public order3.3South East ▼ 5.9
Anti-social behaviour3.3South East ▼ 13.2
Recorded crime history · this neighbourhood · 2026-08
41.933.324.6
2025-092026-08
Trend
−37.3% over 11 months
Road casualties ≤ 500 m
8 in 5 years · 1 child · 6 serious or fatal · On map
Who was hurt
5 pedestrians · 3 cyclists
Per year
0 · 2 · 2 · 2 · 2 (2021–2025)
Period
12 months to Aug 2026
Sources
Crime is counted where it happens, so busy shopping and night-life streets score high.
Rates are per 1,000 residents over 12 months; places with few residents and many visitors read high.
Police.uk open data: the police forces of England and Wales. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Road casualties: Department for Transport, Road Safety Data (STATS19), OGL v3.0. Many slight injuries are never reported to the police.
Recorded crime. Police-recorded offences in the 12 months to the selected month, per 1,000 residents (every police force in England). Excludes anti-social behaviour and British Transport Police.
Police.uk open data · 2026-08
Rolling 12 months: each month shows offences recorded in the year to that month.
Published crime coordinates are deliberately anonymised and never identify a building.
British Transport Police records are excluded.
Anti-social behaviour is excluded from the rate (police.uk lists it separately).
Population denominator: ONS mid-2024 LSOA estimates; council/MSOA rates use summed counts and populations.
City of London and West End rates use resident population; daytime footfall is far higher.
police.uk places each crime at an anonymous snap point; an LSOA with fewer than 20 offences in 12 months and under a tenth of the crimes its MSOA rate predicts shows the MSOA rate instead (marked fallback).
Percentiles compare each area with the others of its region.
No figure where the police force did not publish every month of the 12 (latest window: Greater Manchester, Northumbria, Gloucestershire).
State schools within 1.5 km, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Not a catchment: being close does not guarantee a place.
Top 10%: the school is in the top tenth of South East's schools on its latest published results and rated Good or better.
Older Ofsted grades and the new report cards are not comparable; each badge says which it is.
Kids, each ranked against South East's areas: nurseries and pre-schools within 1 km rated well by Ofsted (Good or Outstanding, or a report card with no area below Expected standard; childminders are not included), Ofsted Early Years management information, Open Government Licence v3.0. Road safety: pedestrians and cyclists hurt within 500 m in police-reported collisions over five years, DfT road safety data (STATS19), Open Government Licence v3.0. Cycle lanes: km of protected track and TfL Cycleway within 1 km, TfL Cycling Infrastructure Database (surveyed 2017–19) and Cycleways, Powered by TfL Open Data (London only).
Local places
Shop 4 minFood hygiene worse than 54% of South EastOn map ↗
Shops, pubs, cafés, pharmacies and GP surgeries mapped in OpenStreetMap. Volunteers keep it up to date, so a new or closed place may be missing.
Food hygiene: cafés, restaurants, takeaways and pubs within 800 m with a published rating; exempt places and those awaiting inspection are left out. Food Standards Agency, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the area.
Places come from OpenStreetMap, which volunteers keep up to date; a new shop or a closed pub may be missing.
Distances are straight lines from the area's centre or the home, not walking routes.
Noise: modelled whole-day average (Lden) at 408 recorded homes, road or rail; no aircraft noise.
Modelled annual averages at 4 m above ground on a 10 m grid, not measurements.
Levels under 40 dB Lden are not mapped; aircraft noise is not included outside London.
Homes are the addresses in the domestic EPC register, read at their OS Open UPRN point; no single home is shown.
Homes under 40 dB Lden are not mapped; the road median covers mapped homes only.
Defra strategic noise mapping Round 4 (2022), road and rail. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Homes: OS Open UPRN and the domestic EPC register (OGL v3).
Straight-line distances from the middle of the area.
Places come from OpenStreetMap, which volunteers keep up to date; a new shop or a closed pub may be missing.
Distances are straight lines from the area's centre or the home, not walking routes.
Nature: the score combines green land, street trees per hectare and the distance to the nearest nature reserve or SSSI, each ranked among South East neighbourhoods.
Wildlife: species people recorded within 1 km (birds, mammals, amphibians). Records follow where people look, so a short list can mean few observers, not few animals.
Local Nature Reserves and Sites of Special Scientific Interest only; council Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation are not openly licensed and are not included.
Air pollution is modelled by the GLA (London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory) for one year on a 20 m grid and averaged over the area's homes; it is not a measurement at any one address.
Summer heat is the GLA's modelled mean midnight air temperature, May to September 2011, on a 250 m grid, averaged over the area's homes: it shows which places stay warmer at night, not a forecast or an indoor temperature.
GP access counts the practices whose surgery postcode is within 1 km of a neighbourhood's centre (for an MSOA or council, inside it): registered patients per full-time-equivalent GP, trainees and locums excluded. People can register with a practice further away; practices outside England are not counted.
94% at the same address a year earlier (South East 88%)
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Sources
Shares of this neighbourhood's households, 2021 Census; the tick on each row is South East. Neutral context, never rated.
ONS Census 2021 tables TS003, TS004, TS007A, TS012, TS013, TS015, TS021, TS022, TS028, TS030, TS031, TS044, TS054, TS063, TS066, TS067 via Nomis; country of birth (190 categories) and main language (26) via the ONS API. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ONS mid-2024 Lower layer Super Output Area population estimates (revised November 2025). Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ofcom Connected Nations, spring 2026 update (January 2026 coverage). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 TS019 Migrant indicator, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Article 4 direction areas, planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG, from local planning authorities). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Shares are of the area's land; the council's own maps and planning team are the authority on what needs permission.
Article 4 counts only directions that remove householder rights (extensions, roofs, porches, windows), and only from councils that publish them to planning.data.gov.uk.
Conservation areas outside London are as councils publish them to planning.data.gov.uk; a council that publishes none shows no conservation share (unknown).
Listed buildings are counted by list entry; one entry can be a terrace. Listing covers the whole building, inside and out.
Broadband is availability (a line can be ordered), not take-up or speed in use; full fibre is the council area's figure.
Settledness is from Census day, 21 March 2021, during the pandemic: students and some renters were away.
People
Census 2021
1,502 people (2024)
4,003 people / km² · 7.9× South East's density
626 households
Deprivation: among South East's least deprived 20%
Blackwater, Frogmore & MinleySouth EastChip = points against South East, when 5 or more
Household
Couple, no children32%
Couple with children26%
One person25%
Lone parent9%
Other, including shared8%
Age
Aged 65 and over: 27% here, 19% in South East
0 to 1414%
15 to 2410%
25 to 4423%
45 to 6427%
65 and over27%+7
Ethnic group
White British83%
Other White5%
Other Asian4%
Indian2%
Other6%
Country of birth
United Kingdom85%
Middle East and Asia5%
Africa3%
EU members before 2004 (France, Germany, Italy, …)2%
Other5%
Religion
Christian52%+5
No religion37%
Chose not to answer6%
Hindu3%
Other3%
Sources
Shares of this neighbourhood's residents and households, 2021 Census; the tick on each row is South East. Neutral context, never rated.
People per km²: mid-2024 population estimate over the area's land.
ONS Census 2021 tables TS003, TS004, TS007A, TS012, TS013, TS015, TS021, TS022, TS028, TS030, TS031, TS044, TS054, TS063, TS066, TS067 via Nomis; country of birth (190 categories) and main language (26) via the ONS API. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ONS mid-2024 Lower layer Super Output Area population estimates (revised November 2025). Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Deprivation is the official Index of Multiple Deprivation for the area, not its people.
Living costs
Band D £2,400Hart 2026-27
Council tax 2026-27
Band D £2,400 · A £1,600 … H £4,800
Band D
£2,400.02 = Hart £210.20 + County £1,690.11 + Police £290.46 + Fire £92.84 + Parish £116.41
Renting, Hart average
1 bed £1,023 · 2 bed £1,303 · 3 bed £1,581 · 4+ bed £2,301
Councillor data from Democracy Club (democracyclub.org.uk), CC BY 4.0.
Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
MP data from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
Source: Office for National Statistics, Price Index of Private Rents. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Questions people ask about Blackwater, Frogmore & Minley
Is Blackwater, Frogmore & Minley safe?
Police recorded about 24.6 crimes for every 1,000 residents in the 12 months to August 2026; safer than 86% of South East's neighbourhoods. Figures run high in busy centres where few people live, so visit at different times of day.
How much do homes cost in Blackwater, Frogmore & Minley?
Homes sold for a typical £4,400 per m² in the year to August 2026, down 1.6% in a year; pricier than 50% of South East's neighbourhoods. These are area price bands from recorded sales, never a home's value.
Which schools are near Blackwater, Frogmore & Minley?
3 schools within 1.5 km; primaries nearby stronger than in 80% of South East's neighbourhoods. Living nearby doesn't guarantee a place, so check each school's admissions rules.
How far is Blackwater, Frogmore & Minley from a station?
A 10-minute walk to Blackwater; a shorter walk than 91% of South East's neighbourhoods. Walks are timed along mapped paths, not in a straight line.