Wickham Skeith
Village · 240 residents
65Good
Good · better than 6 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: 21 per 1,000 people a year against 100
- Transport scores 73, well above the typical 60
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- Food & drink scores 30, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Wickham Skeith
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Wickham Skeith a good place to live?
Wickham Skeith scores 65/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (91) and transport (73).
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 Wickham Skeith in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Wickham Skeith
Wickham Skeith is the sort of place where the houses do the talking — detached brick and render set back from the lane, freehold boards outnumbering anything else, and not much passing traffic to disturb the view. There's no high street to speak of, no cluster of shops pulling people in; this is a village you live in rather than pass through, and the property mix (mostly detached, entirely freehold in the sample here) tells you it attracts people who've settled rather than people passing through a rental market.
The numbers behind that impression are telling in their own quiet way. A median age around 50 fits a village with almost no rental churn and a school landscape that leans on neighbouring villages — Mendlesham Primary School, an academy converter with just over a hundred pupils, is the named option here rather than anything within Wickham Skeith itself. There's no rail station in the picture, and only a couple of bus stops recorded, so this isn't a place for anyone counting on a station platform each morning; it suits someone who drives, or who has already arranged their working life around not commuting daily. On price, the picture is firmly upmarket for the area: a median sale around £390,000 sits well above both the national £281,000 and the regional £330,000 benchmark, and is over a third higher than the wider Mid Suffolk district itself — this is one of the pricier corners of its own council area, not just of the country.