Wisbech St Mary
Village · 1,070 residents
38Modest
Modest · among the lowest-scoring villages
Check Local Score out of 100 · 60 is typical for the country
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- Flood risk: 75% of the area is in the highest flood zone, so check the street
- Food & drink scores 25, below the typical 60
- Health scores 29, below the typical 60
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Everyday life
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Around Wisbech St Mary
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Is Wisbech St Mary a good place to live?
Wisbech St Mary scores 38/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as modest — 60 is typical for the country.
No topic reaches "very good" (70+); its best is affordability (69).
It scores lowest on food & drink (25) and health (29).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Wisbech St Mary in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Wisbech St Mary
Wisbech St Mary reads as flat Fenland farmland stitched together by a handful of lanes, a village school, and not much else in the way of built-up centre — this is a place defined by fields and sky rather than shopfronts, and the kind of spot that attracts people who've made a deliberate choice to get away from towns rather than commute conveniently into one.
The practical picture here is straightforward but has real trade-offs baked in. Wisbech St Mary CofE Academy, rated Good, is the one school in the village and covers the primary years, so families tend to be settled types — the median age of nearly 47 confirms this isn't a village full of young professionals or first-time buyers, but more people who've raised families already or moved out here in mid-life. Transport is the honest weak point: the connectivity grade sits respectably at a B thanks to decent full-fibre coverage, but the transport grade drops to a C, and there's no rail station in the picture — you're driving for everything, always. Housing here is almost entirely freehold detached and semi-detached property, the kind of solid, unfussy stock you'd expect from a farming village, with a median sale price around £250,000 — noticeably below the regional figure of £330,000 and the national £281,000, though it runs about 14% above the wider Fenland district average, so you're paying a small premium for the specific patch of land rather than for the postcode's polish.