Great Wakering
Village · 5,285 residents
59Good
Good · better than 3 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: 52 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 27% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Food & drink scores 26, below the typical 60
- Health scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Great Wakering
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Great Wakering a good place to live?
Great Wakering scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85).
It scores lowest on food & drink (26) and health (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Great Wakering in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Great Wakering
Great Wakering reads as pebble-dash bungalows and semis along the main road, a proper village edge where the streets stop and the Essex marshes take over — the kind of place where the front gardens are tidy and the cars parked outside are practical rather than flashy. It attracts a settled crowd rather than a young one; the median age here is 45, noticeably older than the regional average, and that shows in the pace of the place more than in anything you could point to on a map.
The practical picture is mixed in a way that rewards a closer look. There's no rail station in the village itself, so this isn't one for a London commuter chasing a fast line in — you're looking at a drive to pick up trains elsewhere, with 33 local transport stops covering the bus side of things instead. Schools are thin on the ground too, just two in the village, though Barling Magna Primary Academy carries a Good rating and gives families a solid, if not spectacular, local option. Housing here is overwhelmingly semi-detached and terraced, sold freehold rather than leasehold — the sort of For Sale board that says "family home, no service charge, no chain of flats above you." At a median of £315,000, it undercuts the England average and sits close to the regional norm, and the semi-detached and terraced prices actually run higher here than the national picture for the same property types, which tells you the local market rates its family stock reasonably well even without new-build gloss — new builds are essentially absent.