Great Waldingfield
Village · 668 residents
72Very 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: 40 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 71, well above the typical 60
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- Health scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Great Waldingfield
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Great Waldingfield a good place to live?
Great Waldingfield scores 72/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (88) and transport (71).
It scores lowest on health (33).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Great Waldingfield in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Great Waldingfield
Detached houses on generous plots, a scatter of older residents, and roads that empty out fast once you're past the church — this is the sort of village where the streetscape does most of the talking before you've even checked a single statistic. It's small, it's quiet, and it looks it.
The numbers back up the impression rather than complicate it. Great Waldingfield's population skews notably older than the national picture, and that shapes everything from the pace of the place to the kind of buyer who turns up at viewings. There's one school in the village, Great Waldingfield Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary, rated Good, and it anchors what family life there is — though with a median age pushing into the mid-fifties, this reads less as a nursery-run village and more as a settled one. There's no rail station in the data here, so anyone commuting will be doing it by road, which matters if you're weighing this against somewhere with a station on the doorstep. Housing leans heavily towards detached freehold homes — nine out of nine sales in the sample were freehold, six of those detached — and at a median of £395,000 that sits noticeably above both the Babergh district figure and the national median, roughly a quarter higher than the wider district itself. A For Sale board here is very rarely announcing a flat or a new-build; it's almost always a house with a garden and no chain of leasehold complications behind it.