Ickleford
Village · 1,580 residents
64Good
Good · better than 5 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: 55 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Health scores 15, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Ickleford
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Ickleford a good place to live?
Ickleford scores 64/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (79).
It scores lowest on health (15).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ickleford in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ickleford
Ickleford has the look of a village that hasn't been swallowed by the town next door: a cluster of period cottages and modest detached houses around a green, with Hitchin close enough to matter but not close enough to dominate the streetscape. At 315 people, this is small, and it feels it — the sort of place where you'd recognise the postman.
The numbers back up that first impression more than they complicate it. Safety here grades among the best you'll find anywhere, and even though the anti-social behaviour figure sits equal-top of the local crime breakdown alongside violence and sexual offences, the overall count is low enough — 17 incidents across the past year — that it reads as village-scale noise rather than a pattern to worry about; the trend is flat, not worsening. Housing leans similarly reassuring: this is Freehold, house-and-garden territory rather than flats-and-tenants, even though flats top the sample by type — a reminder that a small sample can throw up an odd headline number. A median sale price of £376,250 sits below the wider North Hertfordshire figure by about 7%, which is a rare thing near Hitchin: village life at a slight discount to the district around it.
Ickleford Primary School serves the village directly, and Our Lady Catholic Primary — rated Good — sits close by as an alternative; schooling here is a genuinely local, walk-to-the-gates affair rather than a commute. The median age of 48 tells you who's actually living here: this is not a starter-home estate or a graduate share-house cluster, it's a settled population, older than the national median by a clear margin, likely long-tenure owners rather than a churn of renters — the low turnover rate in the sales data agrees. Green space is generous relative to the size of the place — nine separate spaces packed into a small footprint — so dog walks and children kicking a ball about are easy to arrange without leaving the village. What you won't find is much of a high street scene; this is a place you drive or cycle out from for restaurants and bigger shops, with Hitchin doing that heavy lifting.