Little Wilbraham
Village · 547 residents
47Fair
Fair · among the lowest-scoring 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: 57 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 32, below the typical 60
- Infrastructure scores 33, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Little Wilbraham
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Is Little Wilbraham a good place to live?
Little Wilbraham scores 47/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (81).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and food & drink (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Little Wilbraham in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Little Wilbraham
Little Wilbraham is the kind of place where the houses do the talking: detached, freehold, set back enough that you're not overlooking anyone's kitchen. There's no high street to speak of, no strip of shops pulling in passers-by — this is a village that exists for the people who already live here, not for footfall. At a median age of 47, and with barely over 400 people spread thinly across it, this reads as settled rather than transient. You won't find students or house-shares here; you'll find people who bought once and stayed.
The practical picture is where it gets more interesting, and slightly more complicated. Broadband is decent rather than exceptional — just over half the village has full fibre, which is fine for working from home but won't dazzle anyone used to city speeds. Transport and connectivity score toward the weaker end here, and there's no hiding it: this is a village you drive from, not one you commute out of on foot to a station platform. Schooling is where the story splits — the area's overall schools grade sits comfortably above the national average, but the one named local option in the data, Great Wilbraham CofE Primary Academy, carries an Inadequate Ofsted rating. That's the outlier worth sitting with: a generally strong-performing area on paper, with a specific, nameable weak point on your own doorstep. If schooling matters to you, it's worth looking at the fuller catchment rather than assuming the area grade tells you everything.