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Find your town in Herefordshire

Herefordshire has 5 towns of 2,500 or more and 50 villages and smaller places. Towns are graded against towns across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland on cost of living, safety, schools, health and more.

5graded towns
0grade A− or better
50villages and smaller places
Herefordlargest · 60,471
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Herefordshire at a glance

What Herefordshire is like

The typical Herefordshire town grades highest on walkability and outdoors against towns across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and lowest on safety. Choose a subject to find the towns that do best on it.

The typical town, subject by subjectThe median Herefordshire town against UK towns · the line marks the typical UK town
How Herefordshire’s towns grade overall5 graded towns
B2C3

0 of 5 (0%) grade A− or better, against 25% of UK towns.

Every town ranked by scoreThe full Herefordshire list, with what drives each gradeCompare two townsSide by side, subject by subject
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5 towns · ordered by Herefordshire rank

B+

Ledbury

Town · 8,344 people · #713 of 2,138 nationally

StrongestAWalkabilityB+SchoolsLowestCJobs & income
B−

Ross-on-Wye

Town · 10,993 people · #1,127 of 2,138 nationally

StrongestA−WalkabilityB+SchoolsLowestC−Jobs & income
C+

Hereford

Large town · 60,471 people · #1,259 of 2,138 nationally

StrongestAWalkabilityBCost of livingLowestC−Hazard risk
C−

Bromyard

Town · 3,816 people · #1,713 of 2,138 nationally

StrongestA−WalkabilityBHazard riskLowestDJobs & income
C−

Leominster

Town · 11,206 people · #1,794 of 2,138 nationally

StrongestAWalkabilityB+Cost of livingLowestD−Jobs & income
Villages and small towns

50 smaller places in Herefordshire

Places of 1,000 to 2,500 people have subject grades on their pages, but no overall grade or rank. The search at the top finds these too.

42 places under 1,000 people

Photos: 0: Julian P Guffogg · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 1: David Dixon · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 2: Dave Croker · CC BY-SA 2.0 · 4: Tony Grist · Public domain

Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

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