Guilden Morden
Village · 602 residents
54Fair
Fair · better than 1 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: 70 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Environment scores 70, well above the typical 60
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- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 37, below the typical 60
- Health scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Guilden Morden
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Guilden Morden a good place to live?
Guilden Morden scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (79) and environment (70).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and food & drink (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Guilden Morden in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Guilden Morden
Guilden Morden looks like what it is: a scattering of detached houses and a handful of farm-adjacent lanes, with a single village school and not much passing traffic. Detached homes dominate the recent sales here, all freehold, and that pattern alone tells you the story — this isn't a place of flats and chains and quick turnarounds, it's a place people buy into and stay, helped along by a median age over fifty and a population that barely fills a large housing estate elsewhere.
The practical picture takes a little piecing together. Guilden Morden CofE Primary Academy is rated Good and sits inside the village itself, though families needing a secondary option, or wanting a backup primary, will find Steeple Morden CofE VC Primary down the road rated Requires Improvement — worth knowing before you assume every school on the doorstep matches the village's genteel feel. Ashwell & Morden Rail Station gives you a line out, though the overall transport grade sits at a middling C, which fits a village built around cars rather than platforms. On price, this is not an affordable corner of the country: a median sale of £657,500 puts it at the 95th percentile nationally, and even against its own well-heeled parent district of South Cambridgeshire it runs nearly 58% higher. This is a place for people who've already done well, not for those getting started.
Green space is modest in scale — three plots totalling just over four hectares — so this isn't a village built around sprawling parkland, more one where gardens do the work and the surrounding farmland provides the rest. The crime figures are worth sitting with for a second: an A grade for safety and a "flat" trend feel reassuring until you notice violence and sexual offences make up the largest single share of local incidents. In a village this small, a handful of cases can swing the percentages hard, so treat the share, not the raw count, as the more honest number. Health and connectivity both come in as solid B's, and full-fibre broadband reaches a little over half of properties, so remote work is plausible but not guaranteed to be effortless everywhere on the patch.