East Bridgford
Village · 1,319 residents
69Good
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: 55 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Infrastructure scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around East Bridgford
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is East Bridgford a good place to live?
East Bridgford scores 69/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (82).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for East Bridgford in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of East Bridgford
Detached brick houses behind low walls, a village school with a car park full of estate cars, and the kind of quiet that makes you lower your voice without quite meaning to — East Bridgford reads as settled rather than discovered, the sort of place people move to once and don't leave.
The numbers back up the feel of it. A median age in the early fifties and a population density a fraction of the regional average tell you this isn't a village filling up with young renters; it's one where people buy in for the long haul. Property here runs heavily to detached freehold houses — of the recent sales, the majority were detached, all freehold, nothing new-build — and at a median of £400,000 you're paying well above both the Rushcliffe district figure and the national one, which fits a village that sits comfortably in the better-off bracket nationally for both deprivation and income. East Bridgford St Peters Church of England Academy, rated Good, is the one school in the village and effectively the reason families stay rather than move on at primary age; this is not a place with a wide choice of schools, it's a place with one good one.
Green space comes in small, well-used parcels rather than one big park — five plots adding up to a modest few hectares, enough for a dog walk before the school run rather than a day out. Eating out, similarly, isn't the draw; this is a village to live in, not to visit, and the pattern of amenity suggests you'll be driving into Nottingham or one of the bigger Rushcliffe towns for a proper night out or a hospital appointment. Connectivity grades out only as average, and that's worth sitting with if you work from home and were picturing full-fibre speed as a given — it's there for some streets, not all.