Yes, if you've already made your money. More than eight in ten households own their home. A detached house costs the best part of a million. Nearly half the working residents don't leave the house to go to work. It's an easy place to live and an expensive one to move into.
Send is detached houses and bungalows. On the council-tax valuation list, 38% of homes are detached, 26% semi-detached and 20% bungalows, with terraces at 6% and flats at 7%. Under a quarter of the stock was built before 1930, so this is mostly a post-war village: wide plots, side returns, and front gardens that were designed to hold a car and ended up holding two. About 84% of homes are on mains gas. The energy certificates split down the middle, with 54% in bands A to C, 35% in D and 12% in E or worse. Plenty of viewings come with a loft-insulation conversation the seller would rather skip.
The Land Registry recorded 62 sales in the twelve months to mid-May 2026, at a median of about £615,000. The 29 detached sales had a median of £870,000 and the 28 semis about £529,000. Only four terraces sold, at around £511,000, because Send doesn't really build terraces. The house price index for the area was down about 6% in the year to May 2026, so some asking prices are now optimistic rather than firm. Most homes are in council-tax band E, and only 6% are in bands A or B. Nobody moves here for a cheap bill.
Few people rent, and the only rent figure is for the whole borough. Typical private rent across the Guildford area was about £1,720 a month in April 2026. Four-bedroom lets across the borough averaged about £2,510, and 43% of homes in Send have four bedrooms or more. Treat the borough figure as a floor for a family house here, not a quote.
In the year to May 2026, Surrey Police recorded crime at about 89 per 1,000 residents. That's level with the Guildford average of about 87. Anti-social behaviour makes up a bigger share of the local mix than it does nationally, and violence a much smaller one. But the totals are small enough that a few incidents move those shares by several points, so they're noise, not a verdict on the village. Send is neither a crime story nor a fortress. Most of the aggravation is the annoying kind, not the frightening kind.
Send runs on the car and the spare room. About 43% of working residents drive to work and 47% work from home. The train accounts for 2% and the bus for less than 1%. There are 28 bus stops, averaging about 15 weekday departures each, which works out at about half a bus an hour at peak. That sounds like a joke and isn't. For rail, the stations in reach are Woking, West Byfleet, Clandon and the two in Guildford. The Department for Transport's modelled times, from 2019, put the nearest town centre about 16 minutes away by car and 30 by public transport. Superfast broadband reaches 99% of premises but gigabit only 40%. For a village where nearly half the workforce commutes to the spare bedroom, that's the number to check before you exchange.
Outdoor space is the easy win. The nearest green space averages about 280 metres from a front door, with around six within a kilometre. Water is closer still at about 230 metres: the River Wey, the flooded sandpits the anglers use, and Papercourt Lake, where the sailing club keeps its boats. That much water has consequences. In the Environment Agency's river-and-sea flood zones, about 5% of the area is in zone 2 and about 1% in zone 3. Counted by postcode, on at least one flood indicator including surface water, about 11% of postcodes carry a high rating and 18% a medium one. The last recorded river flood was in 1968. Separately, about 85% of postcodes sit on clay rated class 3 or higher on the British Geological Survey's shrink-swell scale. A surveyor who looks for cracks is worth the fee. Radon is in the lowest band.
Heritage is light. There are 24 listed buildings, one of them Grade II* and the other 23 Grade II, and one scheduled monument. There are no conservation areas. For most owners, the planning office will care how big the extension is, not what colour the window frames are.
The people match the housing. About 84% of households own their home, the median age is 48, and gross household income was modelled at about £72,000 for the financial year to March 2023. This is a village of people who have finished moving house and would quite like everyone else to finish too.
This page also covers Ripley, the neighbouring village to the north-east, and its figures are counted here alongside Send's.
Send suits families who have the deposit and want space, quiet and school options. Across Surrey, Ofsted grades 147 of the county's 159 graded settings good or better, 30 of them outstanding, and Send CofE Primary School is in the village. It also suits anyone who works from home and drives when they have to. The garden, the driveway and the river path are the point.
It doesn't suit anyone who needs a train from the end of the road, a bus after teatime or a cheap way in. A nearby primary school has closed recently, so check school allocations carefully rather than assume. Renters will find a thin market pegged to borough prices, in a village built for owners.
For a village this quiet, Send has an odd number of guitarists in its past. Eric Clapton spent two years at the old secondary modern, which later became St Bede's Church of England Junior School. Paul Weller lived for several years on Vicarage Lane. Anthony Phillips, the former Genesis guitarist, lived and recorded at Send Barns until 1981. Connaught Engineering built Formula One cars here in the 1950s. Even the loud history was made indoors.
Send is a good place to live, with a steep entry fee. Its real strength is schools, backed by a county that grades almost all of its settings good or better. Green space and water on almost every doorstep come a close second. The weak spot is price and value: the detached houses cost what detached houses cost in Surrey, and the market softened this year without becoming a bargain. Buy for the quiet and the school run. Don't buy expecting a deal.