Great Finborough
Village · 369 residents
77Very good
Very good · better than 9 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: 46 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Property market scores 75, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 74, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 36, below the typical 60
- Health scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Great Finborough
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Great Finborough a good place to live?
Great Finborough scores 77/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (89) and property market (75).
It scores lowest on food & drink (36) and health (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Great Finborough in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Great Finborough
Great Finborough is the sort of place where the houses do the talking — brick and timber cottages, a scatter of detached family homes, nothing thrown up in a hurry. There's no high street to speak of, no strip of shops pulling in passing trade; this is a village built around a church, a school and fields, and the people who choose it tend to already know that's what they're buying into.
The practical picture is a bit more of a puzzle here than most places, because this is a very small village and the numbers reflect that. What is clear is that housing carries real weight: the overall grade sits well above the national average, driven by a market of freehold semis and detached houses, sold for a median around £295,000 — a shade above the wider Mid Suffolk district and comfortably below the regional average of £360,000. Fifteen sales is not a big sample, so treat any single figure lightly, but the pattern is consistent — solid, unshowy, owner-occupied stock rather than flats or new-build estates. Great Finborough Church of England Primary, rated Good, anchors the family end of things, and with a median age pushing 49, this reads far more as a settled, older population than a young commuter-belt magnet, even though six transport stops and a transport grade of A suggest getting out of the village isn't a struggle.
Green space is modest in raw terms — three plots, well under a hectare between them — so this isn't a village built around sprawling parkland; it's smaller gardens and the surrounding farmland doing the work instead. There's nothing in the way of a restaurant or pub scene showing up here, and the nightlife grade — a C+, the one noticeably average mark in an otherwise strong set — tells the same story: you come here for quiet, not for evenings out. Safety is the standout, graded A+ and holding flat year on year; two recorded incidents in twelve months is about as low as these figures get, even if the local breakdown shows violence and sexual offences as the largest single category, which is common in small samples where one or two incidents can swing the percentages sharply.