Great Paxton
Village · 915 residents
58Good
Good · better than 3 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: 27 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Great Paxton
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Great Paxton a good place to live?
Great Paxton scores 58/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (84) and affordability (70).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and food & drink (38).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Great Paxton in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Great Paxton
Great Paxton is the kind of place where a For Sale board means a detached house on a road with more hedgerow than pavement — the sample here is almost entirely detached homes sold freehold, and it reads exactly as you'd expect: settled, spaced out, not a rental market in any meaningful sense. This is a village of around forty-five people in the immediate count, with a median age into the forties, which tells you it's not chasing anyone — it's already been chosen by people who wanted quiet over convenience.
The practical picture is where the trade-offs show. Great Paxton CofE Primary sits in the village itself, and Offord Primary nearby carries a Good Ofsted rating, so the school side is solid without being exceptional — one of the reasons the overall grade lands at a strong B+ rather than higher. Transport is the honest weak point: a C grade for connectivity means this isn't a place you move to for an easy rail commute, and there's no station named in the local data to lean on. Housing, by contrast, is comfortably ahead of the pack — a median price of £395,000 sits well above both the national £281,000 and the Huntingdonshire figure a district up the road, roughly 27% pricier than the wider district it sits in, and detached homes here fetch more than the national detached average too. You're paying for space and distance from things, not for a fast journey into a city.
Green space is modest in raw terms — a handful of plots totalling a few hectares — so this isn't a village built around a sprawling park; it's the surrounding countryside doing the work instead, which suits people who already drive rather than stroll to a green. Health outcomes and environment both score well (B+ on both), consistent with a low-density, older-skewing population that isn't under daily strain. The one figure worth sitting with is safety: an A grade, but the crime breakdown is almost entirely violence and sexual offences and anti-social behaviour by share — worth noting precisely because the absolute numbers are so small that a single cluster of incidents can dominate the percentages. It's not a red flag so much as a reminder that in a village this size, statistics wobble more than they would in a town.