Stoneyhills
Village · 888 residents
67Good
Good · better than 7 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: 60 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 50% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Health scores 19, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Stoneyhills
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Stoneyhills a good place to live?
Stoneyhills scores 67/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (83).
It scores lowest on health (19).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Stoneyhills in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Stoneyhills
Detached houses on generous plots, gravel drives, hedges rather than fences — Stoneyhills reads as the kind of place people move to once they've decided they're done with terraces and through-traffic. With just over two hundred people spread thinly across the village, it feels more like a scattering of substantial homes than a settlement with a centre, and the median age of early forties confirms it: this is a place for households further along, not a starter-home strip.
The property market backs that up plainly. Almost three-quarters of recent sales here were detached homes, nearly all freehold, and the median price of £450,000 sits comfortably above both the regional and national norms — detached houses alone are changing hands for around £495,000, well ahead of the £420,000 national figure for the same type. Against Maldon, the surrounding district, prices run over a fifth higher, which tells you Stoneyhills is one of the pricier pockets within its own patch, not just within the country. Schooling nearby includes Ormiston Rivers Academy for secondary years and St Mary's Church of England Primary in Burnham-on-Crouch — solid, established options rather than headline-grabbing ones, and worth a personal look given Ofsted ratings aren't currently listed for either. Public transport is thin — four stops serve the whole village — so this reads as a driving life, not a rail-commuter one.
Green space is modest in scale — under two and a half hectares across a couple of plots — so this isn't a village built around parkland; people here tend to make their own outdoor space rather than share it. That fits the wider pattern: an A-grade environment score and near-top marks for safety and housing suggest a place that's quiet and well-kept rather than sociable in the pub-and-high-street sense. The crime figures reward a closer look, though — the total is low in absolute terms, but violence and sexual offences account for over half of all recorded incidents, an oddly heavy skew for somewhere this settled, and worth sitting with rather than dismissing on volume alone. Broadband is solid, with the vast majority of homes on full fibre, which matters more than green space count if you're working from one of these houses most days.