Canvey Village
Suburb · 75 residents
51Fair
Fair · better than 2 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: 67 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Environment scores 76, well above the typical 60
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- Flood risk: 100% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Health scores 27, below the typical 60
- Schools scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Canvey Village
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Canvey Village a good place to live?
Canvey Village scores 51/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (76) and environment (76).
It scores lowest on health (27) and schools (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Canvey Village in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Canvey Village
Canvey Village reads as a settled, semi-detached sort of place: pebble-dashed and brick-fronted homes on quiet residential roads, the kind of streetscape where cars stay parked outside their own houses and front gardens are kept rather than paved over. The people you see about are older on average than most of the country — median age pushing 53 against a national 40 — which shows in the pace more than the look of the place: unhurried, settled, not a student or young-professional scene.
On the numbers that matter for day-to-day living, this is a place that sits just below the middle nationally for income and deprivation, decile 4 on both counts, and the housing reflects that steady-rather-than-flashy position: a median sale price a little under the Castle Point average, dominated entirely by freehold semi-detached houses rather than flats or new-builds. A For Sale board here is almost always the same story — a three-bed semi, owned outright by the seller, sold to another owner-occupier rather than a landlord. Schools are a mixed picture rather than a headline: Canvey Junior School carries a Good rating, and the infant school along the road hasn't got a published Ofsted judgement in this data, so it's worth checking direct rather than assuming. Broadband is solid enough for home working, with seven in ten properties on full fibre.
Green space is generously provided for relative to population, and that, paired with an environment grade well above the national average, is probably the area's quiet strength — this is a place built around gardens, playing fields and a slower outdoor rhythm rather than a restaurant strip or nightlife scene, which is graded only middling. Healthcare access reads as solid but unremarkable. The one figure that jars against the otherwise calm picture is crime: violence and sexual offences make up nearly half of recorded incidents, which sounds stark until you notice the total count is tiny in absolute terms and the safety grade itself is the area's highest mark, with the trend explicitly improving. That's the pattern worth sitting with — a small, ageing, green suburb where the safety grade is excellent even though one crime category dominates the local breakdown.