Fenstanton
Village · 2,894 residents
56Good
Good · better than 2 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: 53 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 60% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Fenstanton
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Fenstanton a good place to live?
Fenstanton scores 56/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (81).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and food & drink (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Fenstanton in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Fenstanton
Fenstanton reads as detached houses on quiet closes, hedgerows rather than high walls, and the kind of quiet that comes from being a village people move to rather than pass through. There's no high street clamour here — this is a place built around houses and gardens first, everything else second.
The numbers back up that impression of settledness: a median age of 43 and a population under 500 point to a place of established households rather than young sharers or students. Fenstanton and Hilton Primary School, rated Good, serves as the obvious anchor for families with young children, and with only one school counted in the area, it's very much the school rather than a choice among several. Transport is the honest trade-off — the connectivity grade is solid, but the transport grade itself sits at C, which suggests this is a place for people who drive, or who've made peace with a longer hop to a station, rather than a step-off-the-train commuter belt.
Housing here is overwhelmingly freehold and detached — of the recent sales sampled, detached homes outnumber every other type, and freehold accounts for all but a single leasehold sale. A median sale price of around £294,000 sits comfortably below the South Cambridgeshire district figure, nearly 30% cheaper than the wider parent area, even though detached homes locally actually sell slightly above the national detached average. That combination — cheaper than its own district, pricier than the national norm for the same house type — is the quiet signature of a village that's affordable relative to its prosperous neighbours without being cheap in absolute terms. Green space is modest rather than sprawling, a handful of pockets adding up to a few hectares, enough for a dog walk or a kids' kickabout but not for getting lost in.