Little Thurrock
Suburb · 58 residents
52Fair
Fair · better than 2 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
- 69% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Food & drink scores 19, below the typical 60
- Health scores 22, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Little Thurrock
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Little Thurrock a good place to live?
Little Thurrock scores 52/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (71).
It scores lowest on food & drink (19) and health (22).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Little Thurrock in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Little Thurrock
Little Thurrock is red-brick semis and terraces, the kind of streets where pebble-dashed 1930s fronts sit next to newer infill, and where a for-sale board is far more likely to say "freehold semi" than anything else. It's dense for a suburb — more people packed into each hectare than the national average, closer to inner-London crowding than village England — but it doesn't feel like a place built for passing trade. There's no strip of bars or restaurants defining the centre; this is a residential pocket of Thurrock, not a destination.
The numbers back up that residential character. Nine of the twenty-five recent sales were semis, nine terraces, and freehold ownership dominates by a wide margin over leasehold — this is a place of people who own their own front door, not tenants in flats above shops. Prices sit a little above the wider Thurrock unitary average and comfortably above the national median, so you're paying a modest premium to be here rather than elsewhere in the borough. Schools are a mixed picture worth reading carefully rather than glancing at: Ofsted ratings for the main primaries and The Gateway Academy secondary aren't published in this snapshot, though Treetops Free School, catering for children with special educational needs, carries a Good rating. Families here are working with academies and free schools rather than a strong run of outstanding options, and that's a genuine trade-off to weigh rather than gloss over.