Huthwaite
Village · 5,364 residents
57Good
Good · better than 2 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
- 59% of residents live within five minutes of a park
- Affordability scores 74, 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 56% of the area
- Food & drink scores 28, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Huthwaite
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Huthwaite a good place to live?
Huthwaite scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (87) and affordability (74).
It scores lowest on food & drink (28) and health (34).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Huthwaite in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Huthwaite
Terraced rows dominate Huthwaite's streets, brick-fronted and modest, with the kind of housing stock that tells you this is a former colliery village rather than a commuter dormitory dressed up as one. It sits within Bolsover district, and the visible economy — the size of the houses, the shopfronts, the pace — matches that: this is a place built around work that has largely moved on, not around people who work in Nottingham or Sheffield and sleep here.
The numbers behind that impression are straightforward. Huthwaite's median house price sits at £180,000, a touch below what you'd pay elsewhere in Bolsover and well under the national median of £281,000 — terraces here change hands around £122,500 against a national terrace price nearly double that. Every sale in the local sample was freehold, so a "For Sale" board here means exactly what it says: you're buying the whole thing outright, no ground rent, no leasehold small print, which suits the terraced-and-semi character of the streets. Two primary schools serve the village — Huthwaite All Saints Church of England Infant and Nursery School and Woodland View Primary and Nursery School — both academy converters, both without a published Ofsted rating in this data, so you'd want to visit rather than rely on a headline grade. With 41 transport stops but no rail station listed, this reads as a bus-and-car village; the median age of 39 suggests settled families and older residents rather than young professionals chasing a fast commute.