Sharpstone Street
Village · 324 residents
57Good
Good · better than 2 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: 31 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Health scores 22, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 32, below the typical 60
- Environment scores 38, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Sharpstone Street
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Sharpstone Street a good place to live?
Sharpstone Street scores 57/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (90).
It scores lowest on health (22) and food & drink (32).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Sharpstone Street in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Sharpstone Street
Sharpstone Street is the kind of place where the houses do most of the talking — detached homes on generous plots, freehold nearly without exception, the sort of streetscape where a "For Sale" board tends to stay up for a season rather than a fortnight. With a population under fifty and a median age north of fifty, this isn't a place with much passing trade or churn; it's settled, and it looks it.
There's no rail station or Outstanding-rated school in the picture here, and only a couple of bus stops serve the village, so this is a place you drive from rather than commute out of on a timetable. Henley Primary School, an academy converter with under a hundred pupils, is the local anchor for families, though its Ofsted judgement isn't on record. Housing runs to detached homes above all else — the median sale price sits at £335,000, comfortably above the £290,000 typical of Mid Suffolk and well above the national median, though not exceptional against the wider East of England. This reads as a place where people buy once and stay, not a first-rung property ladder.
Green space per head runs a touch below the regional average, and there isn't a standout park or restaurant scene to build a weekend around from what's on record — this is a village for people who make their own entertainment or travel elsewhere for it, not one with a high street of cafés and pubs to wander between. Full-fibre broadband reaches close to three in five properties, which matters more here than a restaurant count would, given how much time gets spent at home. Safety is the area's clearest signature: crime sits at a bare handful of incidents a year, weighted toward violent and sexual offences as a share but tiny in absolute terms, and the overall pattern of grades — A for safety, A for transport ease of a different kind (getting about by car), B+ for housing and affordability — tells a consistent story of a place that scores well precisely because so little happens here. The one soft spot is nightlife and environment, both graded around average, which is really just an honest way of saying there isn't much going on and the countryside amenity isn't marked out as exceptional.