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Wimbish

Village · 1,299 residents

Affordability: 55/100Safety: 86/100Transport: 70/100Schools: 55/100Health: 37/100Food & drink: 42/100Environment: 56/100Infrastructure: 58/100Property market: 54/100
66Good

Good · better than 6 in 10 villages

Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country

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What’s good

  • Less recorded crime than is typical: 28 per 1,000 people a year against 100
  • Transport scores 70, well above the typical 60

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  • Health scores 37, below the typical 60
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Everyday life

The area

Around Wimbish

Burton End55Great Sampford63Saffron Walden86Broxted63Little Bardfield60Thaxted74Maple EndBridgefoot
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Is Wimbish a good place to live?

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.

Summary of Wimbish›

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

Places in and around Wimbish›

Schools

3 places
  1. 1Katherine Semar Junior SchoolPrimary
  2. 2Katherine Semar Infant SchoolPrimary
  3. 3Wimbish Primary AcademyPrimary · Good

Health

1 place
  1. 1Wimbish Dental CentreDentist

Food & drink

1 place
  1. 1Tesco Saffron Walden ExpressTesco · convenience store
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Areas near Wimbish

  • Burton End
  • Great Sampford
  • Saffron Walden
  • Broxted
  • Little Bardfield
  • Thaxted
  • Maple End
  • Bridgefoot
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