Stowupland
Village · 1,683 residents
62Good
Good · better than 4 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: 49 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Property market scores 73, well above the typical 60
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- Health scores 11, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 14, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Stowupland
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Stowupland a good place to live?
Stowupland scores 62/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (88) and property market (73).
It scores lowest on health (11) and food & drink (14).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Stowupland in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Stowupland
Stowupland reads as a scatter of brick and flint houses around a long village street, with the kind of quiet that comes from having no through-traffic reason to be there. Semi-detached homes dominate what sells here, almost all of it freehold, and that tells you most of what you need to know about who buys in: people planning to stay rather than flip, on streets where a For Sale board is a rarer sight than in the surrounding district.
On paper this sits close to the middle nationally — an income decile of 4 and deprivation decile of 6 put it just on the comfortable side of average, not the postcode-envy end of Suffolk. House prices, at a median around £285,000, actually undercut the wider Mid Suffolk figure slightly, and semi-detached homes here sell for close to the national semi-detached price rather than commanding any village premium. Schooling is where you need to look twice: Stowupland High School is rated Requires Improvement, which sits oddly against an otherwise strong local picture, and it's worth weighing alongside Freeman Community Primary School if you've got children moving through the system. The median age of 48 tells its own story — this isn't a village full of young families doing the school commute, it's one where people have settled in.
Green space is where Stowupland earns its keep day to day — nine separate patches of it across the village, more hectares per head than the regional average, giving the place a genuinely rural feel rather than a suburban one dressed up as a village. There's little in the way of a restaurant scene to speak of, so eating out tends to mean driving rather than strolling, and that's a fair trade-off to know before you commit. Safety is the standout: crime sits low in absolute terms, with violence and anti-social behaviour making up the bulk of a very small annual count, and the overall grade profile — safety, housing, environment and transport all marked well above the national average — paints a place that feels settled and looked-after rather than merely quiet.