Guilden Sutton
Village · 1,137 residents
82Very good
Very good · better than 9 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: 18 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 76, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Road noise reaches 45% of the area
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Guilden Sutton
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Guilden Sutton a good place to live?
Guilden Sutton scores 82/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85) and affordability (76).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Guilden Sutton in North West, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Guilden Sutton
Detached houses with long drives and hedges rather than fences, big enough gardens that you don't hear the neighbours mowing theirs — that's the visual shorthand for Guilden Sutton, and it tells you most of what you need to know before you even check a single figure.
This is a village where the numbers back up the impression: a median age of 51.6, against a national figure closer to 40, tells you this isn't a place full of shared houses or young flat-shares — it's settled, and it's largely done with the school run stage of life, even though Guilden Sutton CofE Primary School sits right there for the families who are still in it. Housing here is almost entirely detached and freehold — the recent sales sample shows nothing else changing hands — and with a median sale price around £577,500, well above both the Cheshire West and Chester average and the national one, a For Sale board on this street is a statement about space and permanence, not a starter-home opportunity. The affordability grade may read as counterintuitive for a village this expensive, but it reflects incomes here — this sits in the ninth income decile — rather than the raw price tag.
Day-to-day life is quiet in the literal sense: two green spaces cover less than a hectare between them, so this isn't a village built around parkland, and with only ten transport stops and no rail station named in the picture, you're looking at a car-dependent rhythm rather than a commuter-rail one. What stands out instead is how safe it feels lived-in — crime sits low in absolute terms, just four incidents logged in the past year in the wider count, and the local rate lands close to the borough average rather than above it. The one figure worth pausing on is that of the crimes that do occur, four in ten are violence and sexual offences — a category that dominates the mix not because the village is unsafe, but because there's so little else happening here to dilute the total; a handful of incidents can swing a percentage sharply in a population this small.