Battisford Tye
Village · 341 residents
65Good
Good · better than 6 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 23 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 75, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 71, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 32, below the typical 60
- Health scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Battisford Tye
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Battisford Tye a good place to live?
Battisford Tye scores 65/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (91) and affordability (75).
It scores lowest on food & drink (32) and health (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Battisford Tye in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Battisford Tye
Battisford Tye is the kind of place where the streetscape barely registers as a streetscape at all — a scatter of houses, hedgerows, and quiet lanes rather than anything you'd call a centre. There's no high street to speak of, no parade of shops to read for clues; the character here is written in gaps between buildings, not in shopfronts. It draws people who've already decided they don't want a centre.
The essentials are thin on the ground by design. With three transport stops and no rail station in the picture, this isn't a place you'd choose for a train commute — you'd be driving to reach one, and the median age of nearly 56 tells you most of your neighbours made their peace with that years ago. Housing here is overwhelmingly freehold, semi-detached and detached homes on a small scale, and the numbers back up the visual: a median sale price of around £295,000 sits just above the wider Mid Suffolk district, itself a shade under the national average — this is affordable rural England, not commuter-premium territory. Schooling data is limited for the village itself, so if that matters to you, it's worth checking the specific catchment rather than assuming from the area's general grade.
Green space is generous in the way you'd expect out here rather than in any named park sense — the density figure of around 76 people per square kilometre, against a national average many times higher, tells its own story of space over amenity. There isn't a restaurant scene or a nightlife pulse to describe; the C+ nightlife grade is the honest marker of that, sitting oddly against the A and A+ grades everywhere else. Healthcare and connectivity read as solid rather than exceptional, and full-fibre coverage at 57.5% is respectable for a village this size, meaning working from home is plausible even if commuting isn't. Crime is genuinely rare — a single recorded incident in the past year, with safety trending flat, which is about as reassuring a pattern as this data can offer, though the small population means any raw count moves the percentages a lot.