Cropwell Bishop
Village · 1,417 residents
72Very good
Very good · better than 8 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: 51 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 72, 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
- Infrastructure scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Cropwell Bishop
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Cropwell Bishop a good place to live?
Cropwell Bishop scores 72/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (84) and transport (72).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Cropwell Bishop in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Cropwell Bishop
Cropwell Bishop reads as brick cottages and modern infill sitting shoulder to shoulder, with the kind of quiet that comes from a population you could fit into a couple of large schools rather than a couple of postcodes. There's no clamour of a high street doing battle for footfall here — this is a village where people have generally settled rather than passed through, and the average age tells you as much: at nearly 51, this is a place with grandparents rather than graduates, long-term residents rather than a churn of house-shares.
The practical picture is straightforward rather than showy. Cropwell Bishop Primary School, rated Good, is the one school in the village, and it's the kind of small, known quantity that a family checks off before anything else. There's no rail station in the data for this village itself, so this isn't a place built around a commute timetable — it's a place you drive from, or work near, rather than one shaped by a platform. Housing here is overwhelmingly freehold, split fairly evenly across semis, terraces and a handful of detached houses, and at a median of around £252,500 it sits meaningfully below both the national picture and its own council area, Rushcliffe, where prices run about a fifth higher. A "For Sale" board here is more likely to mean a modest freehold semi changing hands within the village than a new-build estate or a flat chain.
Green space is present but modest in scale — a handful of small pockets rather than one sprawling park, which fits a village where a weekend is more likely to mean a walk out past the fields than a destination day out. Crime is low in absolute terms, and violence and criminal damage top the list mostly because the numbers involved are so small that a handful of incidents shifts the percentages considerably; the safety picture itself has stayed flat year over year, which is really just confirmation that not much changes here. The one area worth noting against the otherwise strong pattern is connectivity — broadband reaches a reasonable but unremarkable two-thirds full-fibre coverage, and the transport grade sits apart from a village with no rail stop of its own, which suggests good bus links locally but a reliance on the car for anything further.