Glentham
Village · 335 residents
52Fair
Fair · better than 1 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
- Affordability scores 81, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 74, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 30 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 11% 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
- Infrastructure scores 34, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Glentham
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Glentham a good place to live?
Glentham scores 52/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (81) and transport (74).
It scores lowest on infrastructure (34) and food & drink (35).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Glentham in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Glentham
Glentham reads as a scattering of houses along a Lincolnshire Wolds road rather than a village in the postcard sense — detached homes on generous plots, farm vehicles more common than delivery vans, and a population so small the place barely registers as more than a hamlet on a map. This is a corner of West Lindsey where the median age sits well over fifty, and you feel that immediately: it's a settled, established community rather than one with much churn.
There's no rail station or named school in the immediate picture here, and that absence tells you something useful in itself — this is not a commuter village, and whoever lives here has likely built a life around cars and a wider catchment rather than a walk to a platform or a school gate. The property market confirms it: detached freehold houses dominate completely, with a median sale price of £250,000, a shade above the West Lindsey typical figure and comfortably below what you'd pay regionally for a similar detached home. A For Sale board here is almost always advertising the same thing — an outright-owned detached house on a decent plot, not a flat or a new-build estate.
Green space is present but modest in scale, and eating-out options aren't part of this data picture, which fits a place this size: you're looking at pub-and-village-hall territory rather than a run of restaurants. Broadband is workable rather than exceptional, with most premises able to get full-fibre but not universally. Crime is genuinely low in absolute terms — a handful of incidents across the year, weighted toward anti-social behaviour and, further down the list, burglary and vehicle crime, which is the familiar rural pattern rather than anything alarming. The safety grade holds flat year on year, and the overall picture — a B+ across most categories, with connectivity and nightlife the weaker marks — is consistent rather than lopsided: this is a place that's above the national average on affordability and housing, average to below on the things a village this size was never going to offer anyway, like transport choice and a night out.