Boulton Crofts
Suburb · 12 residents
63Good
Good · better than 6 in 10 suburbs
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: 0 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Environment scores 71, well above the typical 60
- Affordability scores 70, 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 36, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Boulton Crofts
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Boulton Crofts a good place to live?
Boulton Crofts scores 63/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (75) and environment (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (36).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Boulton Crofts in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Boulton Crofts
Boulton Crofts has the look of a scattered rural pocket rather than a suburb in the usual sense — detached stone and brick houses on generous plots, a scarcity of shopfronts, and a population so small you'd struggle to call it a village centre at all. The people you meet here skew firmly older, with a median age well into the fifties, and the general impression is of a settled, unhurried community rather than one in flux.
There's one primary school in the sample, Ravensworth Church of England Primary, a small academy converter with around fifty pupils — the kind of school where your child would be known by name rather than number, though its Ofsted rating isn't on record here. Commuting doesn't look like the draw: there's no rail station data to speak of, so this reads as a place for people who've already arranged their lives around not needing the train, or who drive. Housing is dominated by detached freehold homes — the sample of sales leans heavily that way — and at a median of £290,000 it sits a little above North Yorkshire's typical price, though still comfortably under the national median. A "for sale" board here is usually attached to a proper house on its own plot, not a starter flat.
Green space is generous relative to the size of the place — nearly forty hectares in a single reserve, which for a population this size means space feels abundant rather than shared. There isn't a food scene to speak of in this data, so weekends here look more like walking than dining out, and healthcare access reads as solid without being remarkable. Crime is low in absolute terms — fourteen incidents over the year — but the mix is worth naming honestly: violence and sexual offences and anti-social behaviour make up the clear majority of what's recorded, which is the one discordant note in an otherwise calm-sounding profile; the safety trend itself is holding flat rather than moving either way. Set against North Yorkshire as a whole, the area's overall standing — affordability, environment, connectivity — sits comfortably at or above average, decile 6 for deprivation putting it in unremarkable, solidly middling territory nationally.