Boothby Graffoe
Village · 241 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 29 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 83, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 72, well above the typical 60
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Food & drink scores 32, below the typical 60
- Health scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Boothby Graffoe
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Boothby Graffoe a good place to live?
Boothby Graffoe scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85) and affordability (83).
It scores lowest on food & drink (32) and health (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Boothby Graffoe in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Boothby Graffoe
Boothby Graffoe is the kind of place where the houses do the talking: detached brick homes on generous plots, freehold almost without exception, and a For Sale board here is less a listing than an announcement that something with a driveway and a name rather than a number has come up. There's no high street to speak of, no queue for coffee, and that's rather the point — you're here for the quiet, not the convenience.
The numbers behind that quiet are unusually reassuring. This sits among the least deprived places in the country on both income and general deprivation measures, and the median age of nearly 54 tells you plainly who's living behind those hedges — not young families chasing a primary school place, but people further along, often retired or close to it, who've traded commuting for space. The one school in the sample, Coleby Church of England Primary Academy, is rated as requiring improvement, which is worth knowing if you do have children, though it sits somewhat apart from the otherwise settled character of the area — the kind of single out-of-step detail that's easy to miss in a village this small. Housing here runs 62% above the wider North Kesteven district's median, with detached homes dominating sales and a typical price north of £370,000; this isn't a cheap outpost, it's a considered one.
Green space is modest in scale — four pockets amounting to well under a hectare in total — which fits a village rather than a market town; you're not walking to a country park, you're pottering in your own garden or driving out to one. There's no rail station in the picture and only a handful of bus stops, so this is a driving life, not a commuting one, and full-fibre broadband reaching two-thirds of properties means working from home is at least practical even if getting to an office isn't quick. Crime is genuinely low in absolute terms — a dozen incidents across the year, split mostly between anti-social behaviour and violence and sexual offences — and against a national safety picture that's about as reassuring as this data gets for a place this size.