Leedon
Suburb · 138 residents
55Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 suburbs
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: 36 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Property market scores 74, well above the typical 60
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- Health scores 8, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 11, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Leedon
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Is Leedon a good place to live?
Leedon scores 55/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (78) and property market (74).
It scores lowest on health (8) and food & drink (11).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Leedon in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Leedon
The streets around Leedon are the kind where a semi-detached house with a gravel drive sits next to a slightly grander detached one, and nobody's in a hurry to move. It reads as settled rather than smart — the sort of place where people bought in and stayed, not somewhere you'd pass through on your way to anywhere else.
That settled feeling shows up in the numbers without needing to lean on them. This is a suburb sitting in the ninth decile for deprivation nationally — among the less deprived corners of the country — with a median age of 41.6, a touch above both the regional and national norms. Housing here earns the strongest grade on offer: the market is dominated by freehold semi-detacheds and detached houses, with freehold accounting for the overwhelming majority of sales and new-build almost nonexistent at under 2%. A "for sale" board on this street is advertising something established and owned outright, not a new-build flat on a leasehold ninety-nine-year term. Prices sit a little above the parent authority of Central Bedfordshire — about 5% higher — and detached homes here fetch well over the national median for their type. Schools carry a solid if unspectacular B grade; Vandyke Upper School serves as the area's big secondary, over 1,500 pupils strong, alongside smaller primaries like Dovery Academy and Heathwood Lower School serving the immediate community.
Green space and daily life here move at a domestic pace rather than a destination one — this isn't a place built around a high street of restaurants or a nightlife scene, and the C+ grade for nightlife confirms that's not what it's selling. What it does offer is quiet and space: a population density well below both the regional and national average, meaning gardens, not stacked flats, define the streetscape. Full-fibre broadband reaches about two-thirds of properties, useful if you're working from home rather than commuting daily. Health services score more modestly, a C+, which is worth weighing if that matters to you day-to-day — it's the one grade that breaks the otherwise strong pattern here.