Town Fields
Suburb · 27 residents
54Fair
Fair · better than 3 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
- Less recorded crime than is typical: 37 per 1,000 people a year against 100
Check before you view
- Flood risk: 19% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Health scores 9, below the typical 60
- Food & drink scores 17, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Town Fields
Map outline: Approximate — no official boundary exists for this neighbourhood
Is Town Fields a good place to live?
Town Fields scores 54/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as fair — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (77).
It scores lowest on health (9) and food & drink (17).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Town Fields in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Town Fields
Town Fields is the kind of place where the streets are lined with terraced houses that quietly outnumber everything else, and where a For Sale board almost always says "freehold" rather than anything more complicated. It's a settled, close-grained corner of Central Bedfordshire rather than a place built for passing trade — the sort of suburb people move into and then don't leave, which the numbers back up: turnover here runs close to the national norm, not the churn of a rental hotspot.
That sense of settledness shows up in who lives here. The median age sits at 44, a few years above both the regional and national average, and it reads less like a starter-home suburb and more like a place where people have raised families and stayed. Housing is priced accordingly: a median around £360,000, a touch above the regional figure and comfortably above the national one, with terraced homes trading around £230,000-plus and detached houses well over half a million. Schools here average out around the national norm rather than standing out — solid rather than a headline reason to move.
What's more striking is the safety picture. Town Fields sits at the top of the safety grading, an A, in a decile-8 pocket that's already among the less deprived parts of the country — and yet the crime rate compares as dramatically higher than the wider Central Bedfordshire figure, with violence and sexual offences and anti-social behaviour making up the bulk of it. It's worth reading carefully rather than reacting to: this is a small area, so a handful of incidents move the percentages hard, and the trend itself is flat, not worsening. The environment grade is also an A — green space here runs close to the regional average per head — while connectivity and transport both come in at B+, suggesting decent full-fibre coverage and reasonable onward links without being a commuter-hub postcode.