Bassingbourn
Village · 1,976 residents
59Good
Good · better than 3 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
- Environment scores 77, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 82 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Bassingbourn
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Bassingbourn a good place to live?
Bassingbourn scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (77) and safety (73).
It scores lowest on food & drink (31) and transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Bassingbourn in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Bassingbourn
Bassingbourn reads as a low-rise village of semis and terraces, the kind of place where front gardens outnumber front doors with three-figure buzzer panels, and where the streets thin out into fields rather than business parks. It sits in South Cambridgeshire proper, not commuter-belt overspill dressed up as a village — the sort of place people move to on purpose.
There's no rail station listed here, so this isn't one for the platform-dash commuter; whatever gets you to work, it isn't a train from the village itself. What Bassingbourn does have is its own schools on the doorstep — Bassingbourn Primary and Bassingbourn Village College cover a child's whole education without leaving the village, which matters more to families here than any Ofsted letter (neither is currently rated, so you're going on reputation and the numbers alone, and the college's slightly negative progress score is worth a conversation with the school rather than a red flag). On the housing side, the freehold semis and terraces that dominate sales here carry a median around £395,000 — a shade below the wider South Cambridgeshire figure, so you're paying district prices without the district's more expensive villages, and every sale in the sample was freehold, which tells you this is a place of full ownership, not managed leasehold estates.
Green space is generous for a settlement this size — ten separate patches adding up to nearly 15 hectares, more than the regional average per head, so gardens and paddocks are never far from any front door. Eating out and healthcare aren't the story here; this is a village that sends you elsewhere for a big supermarket shop or a hospital appointment, and the appeal is the quiet rather than the choice. That quiet is real: the environment and health grades sit well above the national average, and safety itself scores strongly overall. But it's worth sitting with the one grade that breaks the pattern — transport comes in a middling C, and the crime trend is marked as worsening even though the raw count (55 incidents over the year) is modest for the population. Violence and sexual offences make up half of what's reported, ahead of anti-social behaviour and criminal damage, which is a shape worth knowing rather than a reason for alarm on its own — it's the direction, not the volume, that's the flag to watch.