Offord D'Arcy and Offord Cluny
Village · 1,297 residents
54Fair
Fair · better than 1 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: 29 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
- Health scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Offord D'Arcy and Offord Cluny
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Offord D'Arcy and Offord Cluny a good place to live?
Offord D'Arcy and Offord Cluny scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (86).
It scores lowest on transport (31) and health (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Offord D'Arcy and Offord Cluny in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Offord D'Arcy and Offord Cluny
The two villages either side of the Great North Road sit low along the Ouse, all mellow stone and brick fronts, the kind of place where a detached house with a paddock behind it is unremarkable and a terraced cottage is the exception rather than the rule. It reads as settled rather than smart — no strip of shops to speak of, just houses, hedgerows, and the river doing most of the scenery.
That housing pattern tells its own story: of thirteen recent sales, eight were detached, all freehold, and the local median for a detached home comes in well above the national figure for the same type — this is a place people buy into rather than pass through, and the 34% premium over the wider Huntingdonshire district confirms it's one of the pricier corners of that district. Schooling is thin on the ground within the village itself — Offord Primary School, rated Good, is the one school actually here — though Great Paxton CofE Primary sits close by if you're weighing options. Transport is the honest trade-off: this is not a village built around a station platform, and the connectivity grade reflects that. If you need a fast, frequent rail commute, look at what's realistically reachable before committing, because the culture here is car-and-lane, not car-free.
Green space is modest in scale — six patches amounting to under five hectares — but the flavour of the place is the river and the footpaths linking the two Offords rather than any single showpiece park, and with a median age over 46, weekends here lean towards dog walks and pub lunches over nightlife; the nightlife grade is respectable but nobody's pretending this is a night-out destination. Crime is genuinely rare in absolute terms — just three incidents recorded in the past year — and the borderline breakdown (violence and anti-social behaviour making up the bulk of a very small total) shouldn't unsettle anyone; the safety grade sits at the top of the scale and has held flat, which for a village this size is simply quiet continuing to be quiet. Health provision and affordability both score comfortably above the national average, consistent with an area in the more comfortable eighth decile for both income and deprivation nationally.