Orton Waterville reads as classic Peterborough overspill done properly: cul-de-sacs of 1970s and 80s semis and terraces, hedges kept neat, cars on the drive rather than the street. It's not a place with a high street pulse so much as a residential weave of estates built around pockets of green — the kind of suburb where you notice the parks before you notice the shops. That's borne out in the numbers behind it: an A+ for environment and 169 hectares spread across 33 green spaces gives it real breathing room, well above the regional average per head, while the schools picture is solid rather than spectacular. Orton Wistow Primary and St John's Church School are both rated Good, and Ormiston Bushfield Academy handles secondary-age children with a progress 8 score sitting right on the national average — decent, unspectacular, the kind of school run that won't make headlines either way. Housing here is overwhelmingly freehold — 100 against a handful of leasehold — and terraced homes dominate the sales mix, which tells you what a board outside a house actually means: a starter or family terrace bought outright, not a leasehold flat chain. Where it gets more interesting is value. The median house price of £267,250 sits below both the national figure and the regional one, and detached and terraced homes here undercut their national equivalents by a meaningful margin — a detached house averaging £365,000 against £420,000 nationally, a terrace at £168,000 against £230,000. Against Peterborough itself prices are essentially level, so this isn't a discount corner of the city so much as a fair reflection of it. The IMD decile of 6 confirms that middling read — better off than half of England, not dramatically so — though the income decile of 3 is a reminder that house prices and household earnings don't always move together here. Safety is the one place worth pausing on. The overall grade sits at a comfortable B+, matching schools, housing and health, but nightlife and transport both drop to a C — this is not a place for a car-free life or a big night out, and violence and sexual offences make up over a third of recorded crime, though the overall rate tracks almost exactly with Peterborough's borough-wide figure rather than standing out from it. Broadband is a quiet strength — full fibre reaches 94% of the suburb, handy if you're working from home rather than commuting into town. The median age of 41.8, just above the national and regional norms, fits the picture: a settled suburb of established households rather than a magnet for twenty-somethings or a retirement draw. If your priorities are space, fibre broadband, and school runs that don't involve a motorway, this is worth a look; if you want nightlife on the doorstep or a station you can stroll to, look elsewhere in the city.