Cheshunt
Town · 42,807 residents
57Good
Good · better than 2 in 10 towns
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- 63% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Prices are high for local incomes: affordability scores 38, where 60 is typical
- Food & drink scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Cheshunt
Hammond StreetChurchgateRosedaleBury Green57Appleby Street59Burton GrangeBroxbourne60Flamstead EndCheshunt ParkCarneles GreenTurnford50Bullsmoor43
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Is Cheshunt a good place to live?
Cheshunt scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (88).
It scores lowest on food & drink (31) and affordability (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Cheshunt in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Cheshunt
Cheshunt's high streets mix pebble-dashed semis and post-war terraces with the odd new-build infill, the kind of streetscape that says commuter town rather than destination — solid, unglamorous, and busier with prams and delivery vans than anything nightlife-driven. It's a place people move to for practical reasons, not for a scene, and that shows in a nightlife grade that trails everything else on the scorecard.
The essentials hold up reasonably well. Two rail stations, Cheshunt and Theobalds Grove, give you real choice for getting into London, and with a median age around 40 this reads as a settled, family-and-commuter mix rather than a young professional postcode. Schooling is more mixed than the headline grade suggests — Goffs - Churchgate Academy is rated Good with solid progress scores, but a couple of primaries nearby carry Requires Improvement, so which street you're on matters more here than the borough-wide picture implies. On property, terraced homes dominate sales and freehold is the norm, which is the classic starter-to-second-step-up market; at a median around £420,000 you're paying close to what Broxbourne as a whole asks, a touch above the parent district rather than a bargain within it, and meaningfully above the national median.
Green space is genuinely plentiful for a town this dense — dozens of parks and open spaces across the area give you somewhere to walk off a Sunday roast without leaving town, and that's one of the better trade-offs on offer given how tightly packed the housing is. Health provision reads well against the national picture too. The harder truth sits in the crime figures: violence and sexual offences make up the single largest share of incidents, anti-social behaviour is the second-biggest category, and the safety grade — otherwise a strong B+ — is trending in the wrong direction over time, the one grade in an otherwise coherent B-grade profile that's actually moving backwards rather than holding steady. It's not an alarming picture, but it's the detail worth sitting with rather than skimming past.