Little Blakenham
Village · 212 residents
66Good
Good · better than 6 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: 61 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 72, well above the typical 60
- Property market scores 71, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 28, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Little Blakenham
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Little Blakenham a good place to live?
Little Blakenham scores 66/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (88) and affordability (72).
It scores lowest on food & drink (28).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Little Blakenham in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Little Blakenham
Little Blakenham is the kind of place where the houses do the talking: detached and semi-detached homes on quiet plots, freehold nearly across the board, nobody renting off a developer's new-build price list. There's no high street to speak of, no clutch of shops pulling in passing trade — this is a village that people drive to reach, not stumble upon, and the average age here (over 50) tells you it's settled rather than transient. It attracts people who've already done the starter-home years and are done moving.
The money picture is straightforward once you see it against its surroundings. A median house price sitting well above both the Mid Suffolk average and the national figure puts Little Blakenham among the pricier corners of its own district, and the income decile here (9 out of 10) confirms this is a well-off pocket rather than an aspirational one. That affordability grade of A on the scorecard reflects local earnings stretching further than the price tag might suggest, not a bargain market — with a sales sample this small, treat any single figure as a snapshot rather than a rule. Renters will find less on offer; this is overwhelmingly an owner-occupied, freehold village, and the property types are almost evenly split between semi-detached homes and detached ones, which tells its own story about who buys in: couples and families with equity behind them, not first-time buyers.