Eriswell
Town · 4,550 residents
47Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring towns
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: 15 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 74, well above the typical 60
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- Health scores 17, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 27, below the typical 60
- Environment scores 35, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Eriswell
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Eriswell a good place to live?
Eriswell scores 47/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (97) and affordability (74).
It scores lowest on health (17) and food & drink (27).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Eriswell in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Eriswell
Eriswell reads as a low-rise, working village rather than a commuter dormitory: terraced houses dominate the sales register, the population skews young, and there's little sign of the new-build sheen you'd find closer to Cambridge or Bury St Edmunds. It's the kind of place where the housing stock looks like it was built for RAF Lakenheath families and never really changed character since.
That practical picture holds up under the numbers. The median age of 24.5 is well below the national and regional averages, which tells you this isn't a retirement village or a second-home pocket — it's full of younger households and likely service families given the Lakenheath connection. Beck Row Primary Academy, rated Good, is the named school here, and with a C+ grade for schools overall you're looking at solid-but-unspectacular provision rather than anything exceptional. Transport is thinner: eight stops and no rail station in the data means this is a driving village, not a walk-to-the-platform one.
On money, Eriswell is genuinely affordable by national standards — a median house price of £250,000 against a national figure of £281,000, and it sits close to entry-level pricing regionally too, running about 9% below the West Suffolk parent average. Terraced homes make up the bulk of sales, all freehold, which suggests a straightforward, unencumbered property market rather than one clogged with leasehold flats or new-build estates. The affordability grade of A is the clearest signal in the whole dataset, and it's backed up by five-year-flat pricing, so you're not buying into either a boom or a slump.