Langford
Village · 167 residents
58Good
Good · better than 3 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: 42 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Flood risk: 15% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Health scores 19, below the typical 60
- Schools scores 37, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Langford
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Langford a good place to live?
Langford scores 58/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (85).
It scores lowest on health (19) and schools (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Langford in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Langford
Langford is the sort of place where the detached houses sit behind long gravel drives and nobody's in a hurry — a scattering of 227 people across a patch of Essex countryside, with a median age pushing 52 that tells you this isn't a village full of young families jostling for school places. The streets are quiet in the way that comes from low density rather than decline; you're more likely to pass a dog walker than a queue.
There's no rail station or named school in the local data, which itself says something: this is a place you drive from, not a place built around a commute. What the numbers do show is a village that grades A overall, with safety and nightlife both at the top of the scale and transport graded A despite the absence of a station — likely a reflection of how easy the roads are when there's barely any traffic to contend with. Schools sit at a more middling B, and the only named institution in the wider area, Woodham Walter Church of England Primary Academy, doesn't carry a published Ofsted rating in this data, so it's worth a call rather than an assumption if schooling is your priority.
Green space is modest here — three plots totalling just over two hectares, which is a fraction of the regional norm per head, so this isn't a village with a sprawling common at its centre; it's one where the countryside itself, rather than a formal park, is the amenity. That fits the property picture: almost every recent sale has been a detached freehold house, with a median price around £615,000, comfortably above both the national and Maldon district norms, and pushing into the top decile of prices nationally. A For Sale board on this street is advertising space, privacy, and a long-term freehold rather than a starter home. Crime is genuinely low in absolute terms — eight incidents logged in the past year across the whole village — though violence and sexual offences make up the largest single share of that small total, a reminder that even a handful of incidents can dominate the percentages in a place this size; the safety grade of A+ and a flat trend suggest this is noise rather than a pattern to worry about.