Linslade
Suburb · 30 residents
56Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 33 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Food & drink scores 14, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Linslade
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Linslade a good place to live?
Linslade scores 56/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (77).
It scores lowest on food & drink (14).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Linslade in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Linslade
Redbrick terraces and detached houses sit close together here, the kind of streets where a builder's board is more likely to say "freehold terrace, offers over" than anything flashier — this is a settled corner of Bedfordshire, not a place reinventing itself.
The numbers on schools are thin — Linslade Lower School appears in the record without an Ofsted rating attached, so it's hard to say more than that it's a community primary with a modest roll. What's clearer is the commute: Leighton Buzzard Rail Station gives you a station on your doorstep without the address needing to say "Leighton Buzzard" on the box. With a median age of 44.9, older than both the regional and national norms, this reads less like a first-rung commuter suburb and more like somewhere people move to once they've already done that stage of life elsewhere.
On paper the safety picture is striking — an A grade for safety against a crime count so low it barely registers, and violence and sexual offences making up a third of that handful of incidents rather than pointing to any real pattern. Set against Central Bedfordshire as a whole, the area's crime rate looks dramatically lower, though with numbers this small a single extra incident would swing the percentage wildly, so treat the shape rather than the size of that gap as the signal. Everything else clusters in the same territory: an A for environment, B or B+ across affordability, transport, and housing, nothing dragging the picture down except transport and connectivity landing a notch lower at C+ and B+ — the fibre coverage, at two-thirds of premises, is decent but not exceptional for the region.