Picket Twenty & Picket Piece

Test Valley · South East · population 8,013 · 5 LSOAs

Approximate neighbourhood (MSOA) boundary. © OpenStreetMap contributors; boundary © ONS / Crown copyright.

56Area Score / 100 ?
  • #3,042 of 6,856 in England
  • #715 of 1,119 in South East
  • #15 of 17 in Test Valley
  • Around the England average
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People living here Census 2021

Residents7,477
Median age (est.)32
Density1,577per km²
No qualifications12%
Degree or above32%
No car or van10%

Age

0–14 26%15–24 9%25–44 39%45–64 18%65+ 8%

Tenure

Own outright: 14%Mortgage/shared: 53%Social rent: 23%Private rent: 10%
Own outright 14%Mortgage/shared 53%Social rent 23%Private rent 10%

Households

One person: 21%Couple, no children: 21%Couple with children: 36%Lone parent: 13%Other: 10%
One person 21%Couple, no children 21%Couple with children 36%Lone parent 13%Other 10%

Work (top occupations)

Professional 19% · Associate professional 16% · Managers & directors 13%

All occupation groups
Professional19%
Associate professional16%
Managers & directors13%
Administrative11%
Skilled trades9%
Elementary9%
Caring & leisure8%
Sales & customer service7%
Process & plant7%

Ethnic group

White: 90%Asian: 4%Black: 3%Mixed: 3%Other: 1%
White 90%Asian 4%Black 3%Mixed 3%Other 1%

Religion & identity

No religion 49% · Christian 41% · Muslim 1%

Born outside the UK: 13%

Census 2021 (ONS), Crown copyright, OGL v3.0. Shares are of each question's own respondents (e.g. education is % of residents aged 16+). Figures date from March 2021 and change slowly between censuses.

In summary

Picket Twenty & Picket Piece is close to the England average for deprivation, ranked #3,042 of 6,856 neighbourhoods nationally, and #15 of 17 in Test Valley. It is highly uneven across the seven themes — strong on Living environment (100) but weak on Housing & access (34). Typical homes here sold for about £324,500 over the past year, up 14% across five years (from 116 sales), 10% below the wider Test Valley median of £361,250. Typical household take-home income is around £46,686 a year, in the top third of England. Recorded crime ran at 44 incidents per 1,000 residents over the past year, well below the England rate of 83.

Themed scores ?

Each 0–100, higher = less deprived on that theme. National rank shown.

Income 45 · #3,755
Employment 50 · #3,439
Education 43 · #3,885
Health 52 · #3,323
Crime 54 · #3,145
Housing & access 34 · #4,495
Living environment 100 · #12

House prices ?

£324,500median (12m) · +2.2% yr · n=116
TypeMedian (12m)Sales1yr5yr
All homes£324,500116+2.2%+13.9%
Detached£436,00032-1.5%+29.2%
Semi-detached£322,00040+9.7%+26.8%
Terraced£270,00029-11.5%+19.2%
Flat£205,00015+5.1%+9.6%
This area£324,500
Test Valley£361,250
South East£385,000
England£300,000
Annual median price, all homes. Small samples can be volatile.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Household income

Net household income (a year)£46,686±£6,706 · #1,704 of 6,856
After housing costs (equivalised)£36,432
Price-to-income ?7.0×typical home ÷ net income — less stretched than the England figure of 7.5×

Model-based ONS estimates (FYE 2023) with 95% confidence intervals — a guide to the typical household, not a measurement. How income estimates work →

Affordability-adjusted Score ?

65Affordability-adjusted Score / 100
Best-value areas in England →

Recorded crime ?

44 crimes per 1,000 residents · 12 months · 349 offences
Test Valley53
South East71
England83

Rank #1,569 of 6,427 areas with published data (1 = lowest recorded rate).

Category (12 months)Recorded
Violence & sexual offences217
Theft36
Burglary14
Vehicle crime8
Criminal damage & arson26
Public order & weapons33
Drugs6
Robbery0
Other9

Anti-social behaviour, recorded separately: 60 incidents.

Recorded incidents, not convictions. Crimes are counted where they happen while residents are counted where they live, so busy town-centre, retail and nightlife areas show high per-resident rates because visitors bring incidents with them. Street-level crime data © Crown copyright, data.police.uk, OGL v3.0. More on crime figures →

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