Toftwood Common
Suburb · 585 residents
38Modest
Modest · among the lowest-scoring 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 38 per 1,000 people a year against 100
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- Health scores 14, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 19, below the typical 60
- Transport scores 31, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Toftwood Common
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Toftwood Common a good place to live?
Toftwood Common scores 38/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as modest — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (84).
It scores lowest on health (14) and food & drink (19).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Toftwood Common in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Toftwood Common
Toftwood Common is mostly detached houses on quiet freehold streets, the kind of place where everyone owns a driveway and nobody's flat sits above a shop. It's small enough that you'd recognise the postman, and the housing stock tells you who's here: family-sized homes rather than flats, bought outright rather than rented, in a market where a semi will actually cost you more locally than the detached place next door.
That property quirk is worth sitting with for a second — the typical detached home here comes in well under the national detached average, while semis run above what you'd pay for one regionally. It's a place where the numbers don't follow the usual hierarchy, which usually means a small, thin sales sample rather than anything structural. On schools, Thomas Bullock Church of England Primary and Nursery Academy carries a Good rating and takes the weight of local family life; there's no secondary or rail station in the picture here, so this reads as a drive-to-commute, drive-to-station sort of suburb rather than one built around a platform. Council tax at Band D sits below the national median, and with a median age of 36.6 — younger than both the regional and national averages — you're looking at a working-age, family-forming population rather than a retirement pocket.
Green space is tight — one plot, just over a hectare, which is modest against the regional norm of open land per head, so this isn't a place for long dog walks out the back door; you'd be driving to somewhere bigger. Broadband is solid enough, with two-thirds of the area on full fibre, useful if home working is part of the plan. The one figure that jumps out of an otherwise unremarkable pattern is safety: an A grade, trending in the right direction, in a suburb that sits in the more deprived half of the country on income. That combination — modest affluence, strong safety — is the quiet spine of the place. Violence and sexual offences make up the bulk of the (small) crime count, which is typical of how that category gets recorded nationally rather than a sign of a rough patch; anti-social behaviour and public order sit well behind it.