Sunnymede
Suburb · 57 residents
61Good
Good · better than 6 in 10 suburbs
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
Each arc is a topic, coloured by its score
What’s good
- Environment scores 85, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 30, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Sunnymede
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Sunnymede a good place to live?
Sunnymede scores 61/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for environment (85).
It scores lowest on food & drink (30).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Sunnymede in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Sunnymede
Sunnymede is a suburb of big detached houses on quiet plots, the kind of place where the streets are wide enough for two cars to pass and everyone seems to have one parked on the drive rather than the road. It attracts a settled, middle-aged crowd rather than a young rental crowd, and the housing stock does the talking before you've even read a listing.
That housing picture is worth sitting with. Detached homes dominate the sales here, freehold is essentially the only tenure going, and the median price of £465,000 runs well above both the regional and national norms — detached properties alone are trading around £748,500 against a national detached average of £420,000. Against the wider Basildon district, prices sit nearly a third higher, which tells you this pocket is doing better than its own parent area, not just the country at large. Combined with an income and deprivation position that lands comfortably in the better-off half nationally, a For Sale board on this street reads as an established, ask-your-parents-for-help sort of purchase rather than a first-rung one. Schools are a genuinely mixed bag: St Peter's Catholic Primary carries an Outstanding rating and would be the draw for a family with young children, but Mayflower High School has been rated as requiring improvement, so the primary years and the secondary years are two different conversations here. Transport and connectivity both land at a middling grade, which fits a place built around driving rather than a rail commute.