Commercial End
Village · 271 residents
51Fair
Fair · better than 1 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: 44 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Flood risk: 30% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Commercial End
Map outline: Part of an official built-up area
Is Commercial End a good place to live?
Commercial End scores 51/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (80).
It scores lowest on transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Commercial End in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Commercial End
Commercial End is barely a hamlet by the time you've driven through it — a scatter of period brick and timber-frame cottages along a lane near the River Cam, the kind of place where a passing tractor counts as traffic. There's no high street to speak of, no row of shops to give it a pulse; what you're buying into here is quiet and proximity to Swaffham Bulbeck and the wider Cambridgeshire fen edge, not a village centre.
The essentials are thin on the ground by design. There's no rail station listed for the settlement itself, so if you commute you're doing it by car, likely into Cambridge or out to the A14 corridor — something the transport grade reflects, sitting at C+ against otherwise solid marks elsewhere. Schooling nearby runs through Swaffham Bulbeck and Swaffham Prior Church of England primaries, both rated Good rather than Outstanding, small village schools in the 90-pupil range rather than big feeder primaries. The median age of 48 tells you plainly who's here: settled households and later-career or retired residents rather than young families chasing a school run. Property is overwhelmingly freehold terraces and detached houses — eight sales in the sample, a mix skewed toward terraced stock — and at a median approaching £351,000 you're paying a touch above the parent district of East Cambridgeshire, itself already above the national median. This is not a cheap corner of the fens, but it's not the stratospheric end of the East of England either.