Elder Street
Village · 482 residents
75Very good
Very good · better than 9 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: 27 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 71, well above the typical 60
- Environment scores 71, well above the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Elder Street
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Elder Street a good place to live?
Elder Street scores 75/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (81) and transport (71).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Elder Street in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Elder Street
Elder Street is the kind of place where a For Sale board means a detached house behind a hedge, not a queue of buyers on a terrace — six sales in the sample, three of them detached, all freehold, and a median price of £653,750 tells you this is a village of settled owners rather than a churn of first-time buyers. Population here is tiny, barely eighty people across the patch, and the density backs that up: this is open, hedgerowed Essex countryside, not a high street with shopfronts. What you notice first is the quiet — houses set apart, cars rather than buses, and the sense that everyone here has chosen it deliberately.
That price tag puts Elder Street well above its own district: Uttlesford itself isn't cheap, but this pocket runs 45% higher again, and against the national median of £281,000 it sits in the top few percentiles of the whole country. Council tax band D bears that out at £234 — high relative to national norms. Schools-wise, Debden Church of England Primary Academy carries a "Good" rating and a reasonable roll of 145, a sensible option for the young families who do settle here (median age 39, close to the national 40); Wimbish Primary Academy, smaller still, sits alongside it without a published Ofsted grade. There's no rail station listed for the immediate area, so this reads as a driving village — commuting will mean the car to a station elsewhere, not a walk to the platform.
The green space count — eleven pockets across 3.6 hectares — is modest in absolute terms but fits a village of this size, and the overall grade pattern (an A for safety, A+ for health, A for nightlife) tells you this is graded well above the national average on almost every count. The one crack in that pattern is worth pausing on: with only two recorded crimes in the past year, violence and sexual offences still make up over a third of the tiny total — a reminder that in a population this small, raw counts swing the percentages hard, and one incident reads as a large share. It shouldn't be over-read, but it's the one number that doesn't simply confirm the calm.