Frisby on the Wreake
Village · 413 residents
59Good
Good · better than 3 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: 41 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 76, 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
- Health scores 30, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Frisby on the Wreake
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Frisby on the Wreake a good place to live?
Frisby on the Wreake scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (78) and affordability (76).
It scores lowest on health (30).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Frisby on the Wreake in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Frisby on the Wreake
Stand on the main lane through Frisby on the Wreake and you'll notice how much space surrounds how few houses — detached brick homes on generous plots, cars rather than buses, and the kind of quiet that comes from genuinely low numbers of people rather than a planning decision to keep things calm. This is the Wreake valley doing what it does: scattered villages, working countryside, a church spire poking above the rooftops.
The practical picture here is really a picture of scarcity working in your favour. There's one school, Frisby Church of England Primary, an academy converter with just over a hundred pupils — the kind of place where a village community, not a catchment map, decides who you know by the school gates. Four transport stops serve the village, and with a median age over 52, this reads as a settled, established population rather than a commuter dormitory; people here have mostly arrived, not passed through on their way to somewhere else. If you need a mainline station or a big secondary school, you're looking at a drive into Melton or beyond, not a walk.
Money-wise, Frisby sits comfortably: income decile 9 and a deprivation decile of 8 put it among the better-off, less deprived corners of the East Midlands, and the property market confirms it. Eleven recorded sales, all freehold, mostly detached houses with a median price around £480,000 — against Melton's borough-wide median of £261,500, that's a For Sale board telling you this village trades well above its own district, let alone the £281,000 national figure. Detached homes here fetch more than the national detached average too. It's a place you buy into for the long term, not a rung on a ladder.