Sutton Bonington
Village · 1,721 residents
71Very good
Very good · better than 8 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: 34 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Affordability scores 72, well above the typical 60
- Transport scores 71, well above the typical 60
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 28% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Aircraft noise reaches 25% of the area
- Radon: part of the area is in an affected zone, and a home test is cheap
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Sutton Bonington
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Sutton Bonington a good place to live?
Sutton Bonington scores 71/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as very good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (89) and affordability (72).
It scores lowest on health (30).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Sutton Bonington in East Midlands, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Sutton Bonington
Sutton Bonington reads as flat-fronted farmhouse brick, a scatter of newer infill, and the low hum of the agricultural university campus down the road — this is a village that has kept its working edges rather than polishing them into a commuter postcard. You won't find a strip of cafés or a bustling centre here; what you'll find instead is space, quiet, and a population small enough that everyone's van and dog are known by sight.
The practical picture is where this place earns its keep. East Midlands Parkway Rail Station gives you a proper mainline connection without needing to live in a city to get one, and that's likely why the median age sits close to 33 — younger than the national and regional norm, the profile of people building a life rather than retiring into one. Sutton Bonington Primary School anchors the family side of things as the village's only school, an academy converter with just over 150 pupils, small enough that most parents will know the head by name. Housing here is overwhelmingly freehold semi-detached and detached stock, and with a median sale price around £315,000 — a touch above neighbouring Rushcliffe and comfortably below the national figure once you weigh it against local pay — a for-sale board on this street says solid, family-owned, not-going-anywhere.
Green space is genuinely part of daily life rather than an afterthought: nine separate patches amounting to nearly ten hectares for a village of under 300 people, which is a startling ratio and explains why dog walks and cycling routes seem to structure the week here more than any high street would. There's no named restaurant scene to speak of, so eating out means a drive rather than a stroll, and that trade-off — space over convenience — runs through everything else too. The safety picture is the quiet spine of the place: an A+ grade and a genuinely low crime count, with violence and sexual offences the largest single category but drawn from a small enough base that it reads more as background noise than pattern, and the trend is flat rather than worsening. Health services score a shade more modestly than everything around them — a B against a field of As — which is worth a mental note if ongoing medical access matters to you, since a village this size will lean on facilities beyond its own boundary.