Linden Village
Suburb · 74 residents
59Good
Good · better than 5 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: 27 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 18% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
- Health scores 14, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Linden Village
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Linden Village a good place to live?
Linden Village scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (79).
It scores lowest on health (14) and food & drink (22).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Linden Village in South East, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Linden Village
Linden Village looks the way its name suggests before you even check a single figure: low-density streets, a mix of detached and terraced houses rather than flats, and the kind of quiet that comes with just over five hundred residents sharing a small patch of Buckinghamshire. There's no high street clamour here — this is a residential pocket, not a destination, and it attracts people who've already decided they want calm over convenience.
The numbers back up that first impression of comfort. This sits in the ninth income and deprivation decile, meaning it's among the better-off, less deprived corners of the country, and the median age of 44 points to settled households rather than young sharers or students. Housing here is overwhelmingly freehold, split fairly evenly across detached, semi-detached and terraced homes, so a For Sale board is as likely to be a family house as a starter terrace — and even the terraces, the dominant sale type, are going for close to £280,000, well above the national terraced median. Schooling is represented by Bourton Meadow Academy for primary years and Thornton College, an independent school, for older pupils — options that suggest parents here are willing to pay for choice as much as rely on catchment luck.
Green space is where the trade-off shows: with just one plot recorded and under three hectares to go round, this isn't an area built around park life, so weekends lean more towards the garden, the car boot, or a drive out rather than a stroll to open fields. Safety is the standout grade, and rightly — the overall crime count is low and the picture has stayed flat rather than drifting either way, though it's worth knowing that violent and sexual offences make up over half of the (small) caseload, which is common in quiet residential areas where little else happens but skews the category split. Full-fibre broadband reaching over seven in ten homes suggests most residents work from home at least some of the time, which fits a place with no obvious commuter rail presence in the data — this reads as a driving-distance, not a train-platform, community.