Ingatestone
Village · 3,835 residents
77Very 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: 46 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Environment scores 78, well above the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Ingatestone
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Ingatestone a good place to live?
Ingatestone scores 77/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (84) and environment (78).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Ingatestone in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Ingatestone
Ingatestone reads as the kind of village where the high street still has independent shops rather than betting parlours and vape stores, where Range Rovers and estate cars queue outside the primary school, and where the median resident is pushing fifty rather than thirty. This is not a place in transition — it has settled into what it is, and what it is sits comfortably among the more affluent, less deprived corners of the country, with income and deprivation figures both landing near the top of the national scale.
The practical spine of the place is the railway. Ingatestone Rail Station anchors the village and shapes who moves here — commuters who want a proper house rather than a flat, and are willing to trade city density for a platform they can walk to. Schools follow the same pattern of quiet competence rather than showpiece results: Ingatestone Infant School is rated Good, the Anglo European School serves as the secondary option with progress scores sitting right at the national average, and Mountnessing Church of England Primary rounds out a set of schools that are solid without being spectacular — worth knowing before you assume "affluent village" automatically means "outstanding schools across the board." Housing matches the demographic: semi-detached and detached freehold homes dominate, new-build is essentially absent, and at a median of £800,000 you're paying well above neighbouring Brentwood, let alone the regional or national picture — this is established stock, bought to stay in, not flipped.