Wyboston
Village · 296 residents
56Good
Good · better than 2 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
- Food & drink scores 75, well above the typical 60
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- Health scores 27, below the typical 60
The essentials
Everyday life
The area
Around Wyboston
Map outline: Official built-up area
Is Wyboston a good place to live?
Wyboston scores 56/100 overall, which the scorecard rates as good — 60 is typical for the country.
It stands out for food & drink (75).
It scores lowest on health (27).
Scores come from official data on safety, schools, transport, prices, health, food & drink and the local environment, for Wyboston in East of England, each measured against the national average.
Summary of Wyboston
Wyboston is barely a village at all in the conventional sense — a scatter of homes around a handful of roads, a business park, and a golf course that most people know only from the A1, rather than a place with a high street to stroll down. With a population that barely fills a couple of streets and a density a fraction of the regional norm, it reads less like a settlement and more like a loose cluster of large houses with room to breathe between them.
That spaciousness shows up directly in the property mix: this is a Detached, Freehold sort of place, and every single recorded sale in the past period was owned outright rather than leasehold. A "For Sale" board here is usually on a substantial detached house — the local median for one sits at £650,000, comfortably above the national figure for the same type — with semi-detached homes also trading well above their national equivalent. Wyboston sits close to the 80th percentile for house prices nationally, and roughly 37% above the wider Bedford area's typical price, which places it among the pricier corners of the borough rather than a bargain outpost. On transport, the area's A-grade connectivity is real: a dozen stops serve a population this small, which is generous provision for the number of people actually living here, even without a station of its own to name. Schooling is handled by neighbouring villages rather than anything within Wyboston itself — Roxton Church of England Academy and Wilden CofE VA Primary both carry Good Ofsted ratings, small in pupil numbers but consistent in quality, fitting for an area whose median age of 52 suggests a population well past the school run rather than in the thick of it.