Papworth Everard
Village · 3,640 residents
59Good
Good · better than 3 in 10 villages
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: 57 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- 88% of residents live within five minutes of a park
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- Food & drink scores 29, below the typical 60
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Papworth Everard
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Papworth Everard a good place to live?
Papworth Everard scores 59/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (82) and environment (72).
It scores lowest on food & drink (29) and transport (31).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Papworth Everard in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Papworth Everard
Papworth Everard reads as low-rise and detached-heavy: wide plots, driveways rather than on-street parking, and the kind of quiet that comes from a village built around a business park and a scatter of greens rather than a traditional high street. The population sits just over 1,200, spread thinly enough that it never feels crowded, and the age profile — a median of 38.8 — skews a touch younger than the regional norm, suggesting families and working-age households rather than a retirement village.
There's no rail station in the picture here, and transport is graded down against the rest of the profile — this is a place you drive from, not one you commute out of on a train, so weigh that against how tied you are to office life. Schools fare better: Pendragon Community Primary and The Newton Community Primary are both rated Good, solid rather than exceptional, and with two schools serving the village, choice is limited but not absent. Housing leans firmly toward detached freehold homes — 18 of the 43 recent sales were detached, and 36 of 43 were freehold — which is the classic signature of a settled village market rather than a churn-heavy commuter suburb. At a median of £260,000, it undercuts both the regional average comfortably and sits 17.5% below the wider South Cambridgeshire district figure, so a "for sale" board here is pointing at relative affordability within its own county, even if it's still a shade below the national median.