Panshanger
Suburb · 1,650 residents
61Good
Good · better than 6 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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What’s good
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 62 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 59% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Food & drink scores 25, below the typical 60
- Health scores 39, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Panshanger
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Is Panshanger a good place to live?
Panshanger scores 61/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (70) and environment (70).
It scores lowest on food & drink (25) and health (39).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Panshanger in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Panshanger
Panshanger's streets are dominated by terraced rows and low-rise flats, the kind of layout that reads as young-family-and-first-buyer territory rather than executive commuter belt. Gardens are modest, cars line the kerbs two-deep in places, and there's a settled, slightly dense feel to it — this is a suburb built for volume of living, not for showing off.
The practical picture is mixed in a way that matters. There's only one transport stop logged for the whole area, so this isn't a place where you casually walk to a station and into London — if you commute, you're likely driving to pick up rail further out. Schools tell a similarly patchy story: Panshanger Primary School and Springmead Primary School are both rated Good, which will do the job for most families, but Watchlytes Primary School nearby is rated Inadequate and Ridgeway Academy, the secondary serving the area, posts a Progress 8 score well below the national average. That's the kind of detail worth checking street-by-street catchment maps for, because the difference between "good school" and "struggling school" here can be a matter of a few streets.
Green space is a genuine strength — just two named spaces, but over 60 hectares between them, which for a population of 1,650 is a generous ratio and explains why the environment grade sits at the top of the scale. That's where weekends get spent: dog walks, football kickabouts, that sort of open-air, low-cost rhythm rather than a café-and-restaurant culture, because the data doesn't show much of a dining scene to speak of. Health provision reads as average-to-below, which is worth factoring in if you have ongoing medical needs and were hoping for easy access.