Brandesburton
Village · 1,103 residents
73Very good
Very good · better than 9 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: 33 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 75, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 26% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Health scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Brandesburton
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Brandesburton a good place to live?
Brandesburton scores 73/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (86) and affordability (75).
It scores lowest on health (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Brandesburton in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Brandesburton
Brandesburton reads as a scatter of farmhouses, bungalows and modern semis around a main road, the kind of village where the cars in the driveways are older and better cared-for than the houses, and where you're as likely to pass a horsebox as a delivery van. It's quiet in the way that villages with a working population of a few dozen tend to be quiet — this is a small place, and it feels it.
For house hunting, the picture is straightforward: semi-detached freeholds dominate what sells here, nearly everything trades outright rather than leasehold, and at a median around £250,000 you're paying roughly 16% more than the East Riding average but still well under the national median. That premium buys you into a village rather than a town, and the property mix — mostly semis, a handful of detached, barely any terraces or new builds — tells you this was built up gradually rather than developed in a single phase. Brandesburton Primary School, rated Good, is the only school in the village itself, and with a median age pushing 50 you're clearly looking at a place that has already raised its children rather than one mid-way through doing so. Anyone commuting by rail will be looking beyond the village boundary — there's no station here to speak of, though eleven local transport stops keep you connected to the wider area.
Green space is modest rather than generous — a few small pockets rather than parkland — so this isn't a place bought for sweeping walks out the back door, more for the calm of a low-density setting with fields close by. The crime figures need reading carefully: two recorded incidents in twelve months sounds negligible, and in absolute terms it is, but against a village of just 82 people that produces a crime rate that looks startling next to East Riding's average — the small population means a handful of incidents swings the percentage wildly, and violence and sexual offences make up the bulk of the local breakdown. It's the one number in this piece worth pausing on rather than the one to build a verdict from. Broadband is a genuine strength — full fibre reaches over 90% of properties, better than many places twice the size — so working from home here isn't the compromise it might look like on paper.