Anderby Creek
Village · 186 residents
54Fair
Fair · better than 1 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Food & drink scores 79, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 76, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 71, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 92% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Anderby Creek
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Anderby Creek a good place to live?
Anderby Creek scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (79) and transport (76).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Anderby Creek in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Anderby Creek
Anderby Creek is the kind of place where the detached houses sit apart from each other on quiet plots and the biggest thing on the street is the sky. There's no high street rush here to speak of — with a population in the twenties and a median age pushing sixty, this is a settlement of retirees and long-settled households rather than a village with much passing trade. The streetscape says it plainly: mostly detached homes, overwhelmingly owned outright rather than mortgaged or rented, the sort of place where a For Sale board doesn't go up often and when it does, it's for a freehold bungalow or house rather than a flat.
On the numbers that matter for daily life, this is a village that sits below the national and regional norm for income and general deprivation — it falls into the second decile on both measures, meaning most of England is better off. And yet house prices tell an odd, locally-specific story: the median here runs about 14% below the wider East Lindsey district figure, and national comparisons put typical sale prices in roughly the bottom tenth of the country. A detached house that would fetch over £400,000 nationally goes for under £200,000 here. For schools, the only one in the immediate sample is Hogsthorpe Primary Academy, rated Good — solid rather than exceptional, and with just 56 pupils it has the feel of a proper village primary rather than a feeder for anywhere bigger. Public transport is thin — three stops counted locally — so this isn't a place to live without a car.