Village · 1,299 residents
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
Map outline: Civil parish boundary
Wimbish scores 66/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for safety (86) and transport (70).
It scores lowest on health (37).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Wimbish in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Wimbish doesn't really have a high street to read — it's scattered houses and farmland stitched together by hedgerows and single-track lanes, the kind of place you find because you were looking for it, not because you passed through. There's no shop window to press your nose against here, no cluster of cafés to signal who's moved in. What you get instead is quiet, and the sort of quiet that either settles you or makes you restless within a fortnight.
There isn't enough hard data logged for Wimbish itself to paint the practical picture with any confidence — no local house price, school, transport, or crime figures came through for this specific hamlet, which is common for places this small and rural. What we do know is where it sits: it falls under Uttlesford district, where the wider median house price runs to £450,000, well above the national median of £281,000, so any home in or around Wimbish is likely to carry a similar premium simply by virtue of the postcode. Uttlesford itself is a well-regarded, comfortably-off part of Essex, and hamlets like this tend to trade on exactly that — space, land, and distance from the crowd, at a price.
Beyond that, I'd be guessing, and guessing isn't much use to you. If you're drawn to Wimbish, it's probably not for conveniences you can look up in advance — it's for the fields, the lanes, and the kind of life where you already know you don't need a corner shop within reach. Before committing, it's worth getting the specifics — nearest schools, actual transport links, a real sense of commute times — directly, because on the numbers alone this is a blank patch on the map, not a verdict either way.
Data last updated: 19 October 2026
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