Great Braxted
Village · 375 residents
73Very good
Very good · better than 9 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: 29 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Environment scores 79, well above the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Great Braxted
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Great Braxted a good place to live?
Great Braxted scores 73/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (87) and environment (79).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Great Braxted in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Great Braxted
Great Braxted announces itself in brick and hedgerow: detached houses set back from the road, gravel drives, the kind of quiet that isn't manufactured for a brochure. There's no high street to speak of, no strip of shops pulling in passing trade — this is a village built around houses rather than commerce, and it reads that way the moment you turn off the main road.
The numbers behind that impression are consistent with what you'd see. A median age of 52.5, against a national figure closer to 40, tells you this isn't a place full of first-time buyers or young families finding their feet — it's a village of people who've already arrived somewhere, in life and in property. Fourteen recent sales were almost all detached houses, all freehold, with a median price around £508,750 — comfortably above both the national median and the £370,000 typical of Maldon district itself, roughly 37% higher than the wider area it sits within. A For Sale board here is not advertising a starter home; it's advertising a settled one.
Safety is the quiet spine of the place, and an unusually strong one — Great Braxted grades top-tier on safety, with crime numbers so low (26 incidents across the past year) that the local picture is best described as flat and untroubled rather than improving or worsening, because there's little room to move. Violence and sexual offences make up the largest single share of that small total, which sounds alarming until you notice the raw count is tiny; in a village of 814 people, a handful of incidents can dominate a percentage breakdown without meaning much on the ground. Schools carry a more middling grade — solid rather than exceptional — and the sample nearby, Great Totham Primary, is a reasonably sized foundation school rather than a flagship. Green space is generous for the population, with four sites totalling over 45 hectares, more than most villages this size would offer per resident, though with only two transport stops locally, this reads as a driving village rather than a walk-to-the-station one.