Great Blakenham
Village · 2,255 residents
71Very good
Very good · better than 8 in 10 villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 47 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Property market scores 80, well above the typical 60
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- Road noise reaches 59% of the area
- Food & drink scores 29, below the typical 60
- Health scores 35, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Great Blakenham
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Great Blakenham a good place to live?
Great Blakenham scores 71/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (89) and property market (80).
It scores lowest on food & drink (29) and health (35).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Great Blakenham in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Great Blakenham
Great Blakenham sits low and industrial along the A14 corridor, its streets a mix of modest post-war terraces and semis rather than the timber-framed cliché you might expect of a Suffolk village — this is a working place, not a picture-postcard one, and it looks it.
That workaday feel carries through to the numbers on safety, which is really the standout here. An A+ safety grade and a flat trend sit oddly alongside the crime breakdown, where violence and sexual offences make up the largest single share of incidents — worth knowing, though the overall count stays low against a population under a thousand, and Mid Suffolk as a whole reports similar patterns. Housing gets an A grade too, and it's easy to see why: with a median sale price around £260,000, terraced homes dominate the market, everything sells freehold, and prices run roughly ten per cent below the Mid Suffolk average — this is a place where a For Sale board still means an affordable, unpretentious buy, detached houses included, which trade well under the national detached average.
Green space is modest rather than generous — eleven pockets adding up to under six hectares, thin compared with the regional norm — but it's there for a dog walk or a kickabout rather than a day out. The connectivity grade (B) and decent full-fibre coverage suggest most residents are working from a laptop at the kitchen table as often as commuting, and with a median age of 33, this reads as a younger, more working population than the regional average of 41 — people getting started rather than settling in for retirement. Health provision scores a more middling C+, and nightlife the same, so this isn't a place that pulls you out in the evening; it's a place you come home to.