Sutton upon Derwent
Village · 470 residents
69Good
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
- Affordability scores 86, well above the typical 60
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 19 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 11% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Sutton upon Derwent
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Sutton upon Derwent a good place to live?
Sutton upon Derwent scores 69/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for affordability (86) and safety (84).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Sutton upon Derwent in Yorkshire and The Humber, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Sutton upon Derwent
Sutton upon Derwent is the sort of place where the housing stock tells you most of what you need to know before you've even parked the car: detached homes on generous plots, almost all of them owned outright rather than mortgaged-and-let, with a scattering of semis for variety. There's no new-build estate creeping in at the edges. This is a village that has settled into what it is rather than one still becoming something.
The numbers back up that impression of a comfortable, established community. It sits in the ninth decile for deprivation and the very top decile for income, which in plain terms means this is one of the better-off corners of East Riding, and indeed of Yorkshire and The Humber more broadly. A detached house here carries a median price around £332,500 — comfortably above the East Riding typical figure and roughly on par with the national detached average — while the freehold-dominant, low-turnover property market suggests people buy here and stay, rather than trade up and move on. The median age of 47 fits that story: this reads as a village for people in the second half of life and career, not a first-rung commuter suburb, though the primary school — Sutton upon Derwent Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary, with under a hundred pupils — will matter to the handful of younger families in the mix. With three transport stops but no rail station named for this location, getting around by car is the practical reality rather than a footnote.